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Launching the system mail reader [message #453925]

Wed, 13 April 2005 21:32

Eclipse User

Is there any way SWT can launch the system mail app, and create a new
email ready to send? If not cross-platform, perhaps some dodgy
activex...?

Any examples appreciated...

Re: Launching the system mail reader [message #453935 is a reply to message #453925]

Thu, 14 April 2005 05:28

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: martin.j.nilsson.sverige.nu

This is perhaps not the best solution, but I placed an e-mail (as a a
msg-file) in the current directory of my application and then executed
the default mail-program and added the e-mail as a parameter. Like this:

final Program program = Program.findProgram (".msg");
if (program != null) {
program.execute("path to pre-formatted e-mail");
}

In windows you can probably do something like:

Runtime.getRuntime().exec("rundll32.exe url.dll,FileProtocolHandler
mailto:<adress>?subject=<subject>&body=<body>");

which seems nicer to me, but is of course limited to Window.

regards,
martin

Re: Launching the system mail reader [message #453936 is a reply to message #453935]

Thu, 14 April 2005 05:30

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: martin.j.nilsson.sverige.nu

An added note:
I'm sure you would be able to put the .msg-file inside of your jar-archive
and get it using a .getResourceAsStream() if you wanted to hide it from
the user.

regards,
martin

Re: Launching the system mail reader [message #453951 is a reply to message #453935]

Thu, 14 April 2005 13:52

Eclipse User

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-15"
http-equiv="Content-Type">
<title></title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
The problem with the msg file solution is that not
all platforms have .msg files assigned to the mail client. Also, on
Fedora Core 3 - and I assume other Gnome platforms - the Program class
doesn't seem to be able to pull anything up at all. In other words,
using Program is a Windows and Mac only solution anyway. 
 
Daniel 
 
Martin J Nilsson wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid1d20ab23139e1c26e6dd6972e94d4ff1$1@www.eclipse.org"
type="cite"> 
This is perhaps not the best solution, but I placed an e-mail (as a a
msg-file) in the current directory of my application and then executed
the default mail-program and added the e-mail as a parameter. Like
this:
 
 
final Program program = Program.findProgram (".msg");
 
if (program != null) {
 
program.execute("path to pre-formatted e-mail");
 
}
 
 
In windows you can probably do something like:
 
 
Runtime.getRuntime().exec("rundll32.exe url.dll,FileProtocolHandler
mailto:<adress>?subject=<subject&gt ;&body=<body> ");
 
 
which seems nicer to me, but is of course limited to Window.
 
 
 
regards,
 
martin
 
 
</blockquote>
</body>
</html>

Re: Launching the system mail reader [message #453965 is a reply to message #453951]

Thu, 14 April 2005 19:09

Eclipse User

Daniel / Martin - thanks for the response (wasn't aware of the rundll
option). Looks like I'll need a bit of a hack.

Re: Launching the system mail reader [message #453969 is a reply to message #453951]

Fri, 15 April 2005 04:51

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: martin.j.nilsson.sverige.nu

Daniel Spiewak wrote:
> Also, on Fedora Core 3 - and I assume other Gnome platforms -
> the Program class> doesn't seem to be able to pull anything up
> at all. In other words, using Program is a Windows and Mac
> only solution anyway.

Didn't know that, thank you for enlightning me. I'm right in assuming that
this is a bug and that the Program Class should be able to work with all
OSes? Found these

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=79268
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=78910
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=79681

which seems to relate to the same problem. Hopefully this will be fixed in
the somewhat near future then.

What is the best way to find the user's email-client then? Any ideas?

kind regards,
martin

Re: Launching the system mail reader [message #454083 is a reply to message #453969]

Fri, 15 April 2005 15:57

Eclipse User

Well, when I want to work with the system default Mail Client, I am just
opening a
"mailto:abc@xyz.com" using the System default Browser. This might not be
the best
solution, but afaik it is working in most cases.

It is also possible to pass Subject, CC, BC and Mail Body into the Mail, see
http://en.selfhtml.org/html/verweise/email.htm

Ben

> Daniel Spiewak wrote:
>
>> Also, on Fedora Core 3 - and I assume other Gnome platforms - the
>> Program class> doesn't seem to be able to pull anything up at all.
>> In other words, using Program is a Windows and Mac only solution anyway.
>
>
> Didn't know that, thank you for enlightning me. I'm right in assuming
> that this is a bug and that the Program Class should be able to work
> with all OSes? Found these
>
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=79268
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=78910
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=79681
>
> which seems to relate to the same problem. Hopefully this will be
> fixed in the somewhat near future then.
>
> What is the best way to find the user's email-client then? Any ideas?
>
>
> kind regards,
> martin
>

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