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Lunkan87
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October 9, 2013
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  • October 9, 2013
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Hi


I'm making a contact form so when you click the submit button it opens up a email window were the subject and message is already fill in because they did it in the contact form. I dont really know which code I should use. I've only gotten this far. The subject and message is textinput and textarea components.


var vEmail:URLRequest = new URLRequest(" mailto:mail@example.com?subject=subjectText&body=bodyText" );

bEmail.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,fEmailClick);

function fEmailClick(event:MouseEvent):void {

navigateToURL(vEmail," _blank" ) ;

}

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    Correct answer kglad

    use:


    var vEmail:URLRequest = new URLRequest(" mailto:mail@example.com?subject="+yoursubjecttextfield.text+"&body="+yourmessagetextfield.text );

    bEmail.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,fEmailClick);

    function fEmailClick(event:MouseEvent):void {

    navigateToURL(vEmail," _blank" ) ;

    }

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    kglad
    kgladCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    October 9, 2013

    use:


    var vEmail:URLRequest = new URLRequest(" mailto:mail@example.com?subject="+yoursubjecttextfield.text+"&body="+yourmessagetextfield.text );

    bEmail.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,fEmailClick);

    function fEmailClick(event:MouseEvent):void {

    navigateToURL(vEmail," _blank" ) ;

    }

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    Lunkan87Author
    Participating Frequently
    October 9, 2013

    I didnt work. Still dosent load any subject or message into the email. A stupid question do I have to use import flash.net.URLRequest; or something like that for it to work?

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    Aaron Beall
    Inspiring
    October 9, 2013

    First, I would encode the subject and body text using encodeURIComponent:

    new URLRequest("mailto:email@domain.com?subject=" + encodeURIComponent(subject) + "&body=" + encodeURIComponent(body));

    Secondly, mailto is subject to rather arbitrary and inconsistent limitations across browsers. If the subject or body is too long, for instance, it won't work. In one case where I wanted to provide an error report email feature what I did was copy the text to the clipboard, then simply set the body to "PASTE YOUR CLIPBOARD".

    Cheers.

    -Aaron

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