On 22/03/2010 13:28, King Simon-NFHD78 wrote:
I can't speak for Werner, but I recently had a request from a user of my application for an 'email this project' button on the toolbar, which would create an email message, attach the current project to it, and then allow the user to edit the message body itself.
That would be the kind of scenario I had envisaged. Of course, you could run up a suitable window yourself before handing off to SMTP etc. but then you're presenting your user with a different interface than the one he/she is used to and/or you have to re-implement all the different buttons (address book, spell check etc.) which is doubtless more trouble than it's worth.
Unfortunately, popping up an Outlook window with the file already attached is just a better user experience.
Agreed. (If they normally use Outlook :) )
I would love it if there were a way to do this that worked in the user's preferred mail client.
There just isn't, and there isn't really the incentive, I believe from any of the email client providers to do that. As you point out, you can use a mailto: link with a certain amount of flexibility. You could, I imagine [WARNING: unconsidered idea ahead] pre-drop the attachment to dropbox or sendfile or one of these online services and then the body of the email could just include the link to the online file. TJG _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
