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Subject: | Re: FLASH: Email Button in projector file |
From: | Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media |
Date: | Tue, 1 Feb 2000 21:28:22 GMT |
At 08:49 AM 2/1/00 , you wrote:
>I have created a projector file that has an email button ( using a get url
>with a mailto: command) that works fine on my machine using outlook express,
>but when I sent the finished file to my client he said the email button
>didn't work.
The success of your button depends on the user's system configuration. So
it's not a reliable way to call up an open outgoing email. Macromedia is
correct, the Get URL mailto: function only works reliably in a web browser,
and even then it depends on the browser being configured to use a mail program.
Possibly you could call a web page (*.htm) with a mailto: embedded in it,
and it might have a higher success rate, but it's still not 100% failproof.
I'd suggest you consider using a dual approach; keep the email button but
also display some text information explaining that if the user's email
client doesn't automatically open, here's the email address.
Marc Hoffman
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