Re: FLASH: Advanced 'mailto' instance

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

At 02:54 AM 9/5/2000, you wrote:

>Thanks for that Mark

>

>However - surely there is an easier way to do this by using the users

>client-side email program?

>

>I can use Flash to send an email to a specified 'address' and with a

>specified 'subject'. Surely there's some way of making these variables

>that can be set by the user.

>

>Also is there not a way of implementing variables in the 'content'

>of the message?

>

>Something like:

>

>On (Release)

>   Get URL

>  ("mailto:"friends_email"?subject=Pub%20Quiz%20Challenge?content=Dear%20

>  "friends_name"%20your%20friend%20"name"%20scored%20"score"%20out%20of%2010)

>End On


I have used this before, and of course you could concatenate user-entered 

variables into the above strings by making them expressions and including 

the variables. But many browser email clients don't interpret the above 

string correctly. Last time I used that scheme, it broke for some users on 

Macs and for at least some users on AOL, making the email unsendable.


Marc




>I guess Im looking for a neater answer than going server side and using

>other strange languages.

>

>Any more help much appreciated

>

>Cheers

>

>J

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> > Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 19:42:12 +0100

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> > James,

> >

> > Have the user set the variables by typing information into text field

> > boxes, then they hit a Submit button whose action is to Load Variables (a

> > subset of  Load Movie) that targets an asp script on the server. I believe

> > Flash4 Magic has an example that sends to a cgi script. In any case, you

> > need to send the variables to some sort of script that in your case

> > compiles an email and mails it to the appropriate address. There's not a

> > ton of programming required in the Flash part, but you'll need to know how

> > to write the Non-Flash script (asp, cgi, perl, etc.) that receives the

> > variables and generates the email.

> >

> > Marc Hoffman

> >

> > At 09:09 AM 9/4/2000, you wrote:

> >> Hi Flashers

> >>

> >> Im building a quiz game for a client.

> >>

> >> Does anyone have any links/info/tutorials on

> >> creating an advanced mailto in Flash?

> >>

> >> I need to have users set text field variables such

> >> as a "friends_name", friends_email" etc and then use this info in

> >> a mailto instance along with the users "score".

> >>

> >> I also want to use variables in the content of the email.

> >>

> >> ie:

> >>

> >> Hello "friends_name"

> >>

> >> Your friend "name" scored "score" out of 10.

> >>

> >> Any help much appreciated

> >>

> >> Cheers

> >>

> >> J

>

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