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03/05/1999 17:12:12
 
 
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03/05/1999 13:10:58
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Classes - VCX
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00214551
Message ID:
00214754
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>>Can anyone tell me the commands for sending
>>an email in VFP through the default email app
>>and navigating to a web page from withing VFP?
>
>To open the default mail editor with message addressed to a specified address:
>
>oShell = CREATEOBJECT('Shell.Application')
>oShell.Open("mailto:esmoore@flash.net")
>
>To open the default web browser and navigate to a specified page:
>
>oShell = CREATEOBJECT("Shell.Application")
>oShell.Open("http://www.levelextreme.com")
>
>If you want to create the entire email and send it without user interaction, you can use wwIPStuff, but it does not go through the default mail client, it doens't use a mail client at all: it uses wininet.dll to send the message directly to the mail server using low level windows functions.
>
>You can also look in the files section here for information about the MSMAPI control, but this control limits you to an MS client.
>
>For a lot more control over sending e-mail automatically, you should look into the Mabry mail control. I think there is a link from the front page here to download it.

Yes this is an updated version of the one I was talking about (22/06/1997). It used the win API which you updated to "Shell.Application".

Terry
It is impossible to make programs idiot proof. Idiots are too cleaver.

MCP( Tcp/Ip )
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