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Re: Running the email default program with ShellExecute

#12568
From: Giovanni Benintende
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 04:54
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Very quick answer, Remy!
I forgot to put the quotation marks in the example; the original code was ok.
Now I specified "mailto:" in front of the mail address and the code works great.
Thank you!
Giovanni Benintende


"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <gambit47.no.spam@no.spam.yahoo.com> ha scritto nel messaggio news:3fc6d276@newsgroups.borland.com...
>
> "Giovanni Benintende" <benint@gbsoft.it> wrote in message
> news:3fc6d044@newsgroups.borland.com...
>
> >   ShellExecute(Handle, open, Label1->Caption.c_str(), 0, 0,
> SW_SHOWDEFAULT)
>
> The second parameter needs quotation marks:
>
>     ShellExecute(Handle, "open", Label1->Caption.c_str(), 0, 0,
> SW_SHOWDEFAULT);
>
> > where Label1->Caption is a current email address.
>
> Did you specify "mailto:" in the front of the string?  If not, you need to,
> that's the only way ShellExecute() will recognize it as an email address.
> If you don't put it in the TLabel, then you will have to specify it
> separately, ie:
>
>     ShellExecute(Handle, "open", ("mailto:" + Label1->Caption).c_str(), 0,
> 0, SW_SHOWDEFAULT);
>
>
> Gambit
>
>
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