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Started by Desdemona July 28, 2005 07:38 PM

4 comments, last by Verg 18 years, 8 months ago

Desdemona

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July 28, 2005 07:38 PM

I want to add a button in my current Win32 project that allows the user to use their default email client to send an email message. I have it set up like this: WinExec("explorer \"mailto:aaa@aaa.com?subject=aaa\""); This works fine, except that it opens up a bogus browser window also. Does anyone have a better solution for this? Thanks, Joe

Fruny

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July 28, 2005 07:45 PM

Tried "start mailto:\"aaa@aaa.com?subject=aaa\"" ?

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Desdemona

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July 28, 2005 07:52 PM

I tried that also, but it doesnt show -any- windows. I also looking into the command line args for explorer/start, but that didnt yield anything useful either.

Fruny

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July 28, 2005 07:54 PM

Maybe ShellExecute instead of WinExec?

ShellExecute("mailto:aaa@aaa.com?subject=aaa");

Desdemona

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July 28, 2005 08:12 PM

Thanks, that worked. Didn't know about that function:

ShellExecute(m_hWnd, "open", "mailto:aaa@aaa.com?subject=aaa", NULL, NULL, SW_SHOW);

Verg

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July 28, 2005 11:17 PM

Have a look at Simple MAPI; I'm using that currently, and it's very easy.

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