help with Direct Email Xtra

[Nishi]

Hi

Has anyone used Direct Email Xtra in a project? How have you called the
email interface - as a MIAW, go to movie "sendEmail" which comes with the
Xtra, or there is a better way of doing it? I have been to their website but
didn't find the explanation on how to use it very helpful.

Many thanks.

Nishi

[rick@mcorp webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

it's been ages since I used it but here's a handler from an old project which might be useful (emailobject is your xtra instance):



global emailobject


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-- send email button script
---------------------------------
on mouseUp me
email "from@hotmail.com", "to@hotmail.com", "subject text", "body text", "attachment.jpg"
end


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-- e-mail handler
---------------------
on email from, to, subject, body, attachment
verify from, to
sendmail = SendEmail (emailobject, From, to, empty, empty, empty, Subject, Body, Attachment)
if sendmail <> 0 then showerror sendmail
checkstatus
end


------------------
-- status check
------------------
on checkstatus
repeat while emaildone(emailobject) = false
nothing
end repeat
checkerror
end


-----------------
-- error check
-----------------
on checkerror
msg = emailerrorcode(emailobject)
if msg <> 0 then showerror msg
end



good luck!

[Nishi]

Hi Rick

Thanks for the codes. At the moment I can send email through Director by
using mailto. But it opens the explorer browser as well as the Outlook
Express which my client is finding annoying. hence the need to using
DirectEmail Xtra.

My question is more basic, what should happen with DirectEmail Xtra when the
user clicks on my link e.g. [email]info@mycompany.com[/email] . The user then need to enter
the body of text beforte sending it. Does it open up the sendEmail movie
which they provide or the Outlook Express? Sadly the documentation of
DirectEmail Xtra is not very clear.

Nishi