RE: FLASH: Mailto: in standalone

[JGL]

Just thought I'd mention that my "

blahblah [dot] com (mailto:blahblah [dot] com)

 " works in

standalone(.exe) projector as well as the .swf.


When I click on it, Outlook opens - ready to send mail . . .


jgl


> From Helen Triolo

> But if you had a cgi or asp or other mailer program somewhere at

> bloodykisses (or whatever site you want to target, Jason), you could

> presumably mail from your standalone program by setting a variable to

>

blahblah [dot] com and then doing a

> LoadVariables("http://bloodykisses.com/mailer.pl", 0, vars=POST),

> couldn't you?  That's assuming that a .pl file would open a

> browser--maybe it would have to be .asp or .cgi or something else that

> would default to the browser.  And it might open IE (like geturls to

> html files do) instead of Netscape even if Netscape is the default

> browser, so it might not be a great universal solution.

>

> kind of thinking out loud here, but you could try it,

> Helen


> "Williams, Marcus" wrote:

> >

>

> That's because "blahblah [dot] com (mailto:blahblah [dot] com)" is a HTML tag. That tag

> is passed from

> > the embedded SWF movie to the browser...the browser then passes

> it off to

> > the default mail handler.

> > Marcus

> >

> > -----Original Message-----

> > From: Jason Bouwmeester> >

> > I swear to god this worked at one time - I put an on(release) get url

>

> "blahblah [dot] com (mailto:blahblah [dot] com)"

> >

> > Works fine when the swf is in an HTML page but doesn't work in

> the swf alone

> > or the projector exe file!

> >

> > Any clues?

>



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