On May 21, 2013, at 04:35 PM, Martin Hewitson <martin.hewit...@aei.mpg.de> wrote:
> > On May 21, 2013, at 4:30 PM, Fritz Anderson <fri...@manoverboard.org> wrote: > >> [I'd accidentally posted my reply off-list. Bringing it back.] >> >> The times I've autogenerated emails, I did so without thinking of alternate >> clients. On MacOS, I used -[NSWorkspace openURL:], which can be funky for a >> long or non-ASCII body, but could be made to work. The system should honor >> the user's choice for mailto: handlers. > > OK, I need to read some more about mailto handlers. I dipped my toe in this > while trying to figure out how to move away from the my old applescript > methods, but I kind of got stuck. I'm assuming one can do attachments in a > mailto url? OK, after reading some about this, it seems that one can't have attachments with a mailto: handler on OS X. Is that correct? If so, I'm back to my original question: how can I robustly send a mail with the user's default mail client and be able to fill in all the details (recipients, subject, body including attachments). And I need this to work on 10.7 and 10.8. Anyone any good ideas? Seems like this should be a solved problem. Many thanks, Martin > >> >> But that may be hard to integrate with NSSharingService. Perhaps you could >> fall back on mailto: in the didFail… delegate method. > > > I've no real desire to use NSSharingService. If I find a way to reliably send > a mail (with attachments) then I'll be most delighted. > > Cheers, > > Martin > >> >> — F >> >> >> On 21 May 2013, at 12:52 AM, Martin Hewitson <martin.hewit...@aei.mpg.de> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi Fritz, >>> >>> I did take a look at the delegate callbacks, and >>> -sharingService:didFailToShareItems:error: is called when the default >>> client is anything other than Mail.app, but the error is 'empty' so >>> presenting it to the user doesn't reveal what's wrong. >>> >>> More importantly, this sharing by email doesn't seem to work for any other >>> app I tried when the default mail client is not Mail.app. Seems strange to >>> me. Do you have experience of sharing my mail working for, say, >>> Thunderbird? With any app at all? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Martin >>> >>> >>> >>> On May 20, 2013, at 05:00 PM, Fritz Anderson <fri...@manoverboard.org> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On 19 May 2013, at 8:29 AM, Martin Hewitson <martin.hewit...@aei.mpg.de> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I'm exploring the use of NSSharingService for emailing (sharing) >>>>> documents from within my app. It's working fine if the system's default >>>>> mail client is set to Mail.app. But if it's set to, for example, >>>>> Thunderbird, nothing happens. >>>>> >>>>> I also confirmed the same behavior from the Share menu in Pages.app. >>>>> Works fine for Mail.app, but not for any other mail client I tried. The >>>>> user is not notified, just nothing happens. >>>>> >>>>> Is this a bug or a feature? >>>>> >>>>> I really wish there was a solid way to send a mail from within an app on >>>>> OS X. With the whole sandbox/applescript debacle, I was hoping that >>>>> NSSharingService would at least work well on 10.8, but, apart from the >>>>> 'bug' described above, there seems to be no way to set the recipients or >>>>> subject of the mail. >>>> >>>> You've described the user-visble behavior, but not the actual behavior of >>>> your code. >>>> >>>> Have you registered a delegate and examined the content of >>>> -sharingService:willShareItems:, -sharingService:didShareItems:, and >>>> -sharingService:didFailToShareItems:error:? Do they get called? With the >>>> expected items? If didFail…, what was the error? >>>> >>>> — F >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Fritz Anderson >>>> Xcode 4 Unleashed: 4.5 supplement for free! >>>> http://www.informit.com/store/xcode-4-unleashed-9780672333279 >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> -- >> Fritz Anderson >> Xcode 4 Unleashed: 4.5 supplement for free! >> http://www.informit.com/store/xcode-4-unleashed-9780672333279 >> > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Martin Hewitson Albert-Einstein-Institut Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik und Universitaet Hannover Callinstr. 38, 30167 Hannover, Germany Tel: +49-511-762-17121, Fax: +49-511-762-5861 E-Mail: martin.hewit...@aei.mpg.de WWW: http://www.aei.mpg.de/~hewitson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ 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
