What if you preceded that mailto url with another url scheme that could be mapped to your app?
Sent from my iPhone > On May 18, 2016, at 1:04 PM, Paul Brown <p...@paulbrown.us> wrote: > > I wrote a Mac app that is a little directory lookup tool. You search for a > name (or partial name), it pulls user info from a database and shows the > results in a table view. One of the columns is for Email Address. It is a > button that shows the address on hover, and when clicked, it opens the > mailto: link to compose an email to the person, like so: > > NSWorkspace.sharedWorkspace().openURL(NSURL(string:String(format:"mailto:%@",sender.alternateTitle))!) > > Is it possible to have the user select their preferred mail application that > will respond to this? In my experience on iOS, there are URL schemes for many > apps that let a variety of apps pass data to other apps. Is this a thing on > OS X? The use case here is that I have my personal email account configured > in Mail.app, and my work email configured in Outlook 2016. It would be great > to have a pref pane in my app to let the user choose which mail app is used. > > PS - yes, I should probably not force-unwrap that NSURL. i’m getting there… > :-) > > Thanks, > Paul > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/zav%40mac.com > > This email sent to z...@mac.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
