Re: Mailto From XUL App

Darin Fisher Wed, 10 Mar 2004 22:11:33 -0800

Ah, OK... then my suggestions are way off track. Ignore those.

Hmm... maybe instead of this line,

oBrowser.loadURI("mailto:"+ gAuthorEmail, "", "UTF-8")

Try this instead:

var loadFlags = Components.interfaces.nsIWebNavigation.LOAD_FLAGS_NONE;
var uri = "mailto:"; + gAuthorEmail;
oBrowser.webNavigation.loadURI(uri, loadFlags, null, null, null);

-Darin

Jeremy Gillick wrote:

Sorry for not providing more information.

I have created a Mozilla toolbar (http://jgillick.100freemb.com/) that works
for both Mozilla and Firefox.  I going to add a button in the options dialog
to allow somebody to send me an email.  The button will be labeled "Contact
the Author", and when clicked should envoke a mailto: url in the browser.
In other words, clicking on the button should open their default email
client, ready to send an email to my address, just as if you entered
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] in the browser's location field.

Thanks,
Jeremy

"Darin Fisher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

I'm not sure I understand your question.  It might help if I understood
how you are launching your application.  Is it the case that you are
installing your application in the Mozilla chrome directory, and then
launching it with the -chrome argument?  Or, are you using a stripped
down version of Mozilla with your own .exe file?  If the latter, then
your apps preference settings would be separate from the preferences for
some other installation of Mozilla on the system.

-Darin

Jeremy Gillick wrote:

Would doing this affect the user in the future?  Would it change settings
that may be useful to that user?

Thanks,
Jeremy

"Darin Fisher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Jeremy Gillick wrote:

In my current XUL app, I have a 'Contact Author' button, that I would

like

to open an email client, via mailto. For some reason it throws me an

error.

Below is my code:

try{
 var oBrowser = window.getBrowser();
 oBrowser.loadURI("mailto:"+ gAuthorEmail, "", "UTF-8");
}catch(err){alert(err)}

The error I'm getting is:
"Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)
[nsIWebNavigation.loadURI] nsresult: 0x8000400g (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)

location:

JS frame
:: chrome://global/content/bindings/browser.xml :: loadURIWithFlags ::

line

159 data: no"

Any ideas or better ways to do this?

Thanks,
Jeremy


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it sounds like your application might have the code for the mailto:
protocol handler.  however, it seems to be lacking the chrome for
mailnews, and probably you don't want to run mailnews from within your
application ;-)  it seems like you need to do something to ensure that
mailto: URLs are handled by the unknown protocol handler.  to force that
to happen, try setting this pref:

pref("network.protocol-handler.external.mailto", true);

also, if you are running under linux, you'd probably want to make sure
this pref is set:

pref("network.protocol-handler.expose-all", false);

that way, your application will fail to handle x-remote openURL
requests.  if you want some of your protocol handlers to be invoked via
x-remote, then you can combine this pref with multiple prefs of the
following form:

pref("network.protocol-handler.expose.x-my-protocol", true);

let me know if this doesn't do the trick.

-darin

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