Can't Fix Email Form From Flash

:-) Thanks very much, I really am grateful.

Hugh

You're welcome. I won't get into the Mac vs. anything else debate lol.

I guess you could use

System.capabilities.os

see:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/00001516.html#wp195419

to check which OS is being used and output the correct EOL codes for whatever OS is being used. Perhaps MacOS (recent versions) need just the LF character.

Hi,

thanks so much for the info. GWD, you guessed right, I am using a Mac. (is there anything else out there??? ) :-) I really appreciate the help.

Hugh

To answer your first issue:
Issue #1
I'm pretty sure what you want to do is impossible. At least I hope so. It would be a big security risk if it were... anyone could use your email client to send spam if they could create the content of the email AND instruct you email client to send it as well. If you want to achieve automatic submission of the email then you really need to do it through a server side script.

Issue #2
For the second point... I'm not too sure. newline works fine for me as is...using windows and Outlook as the email client. Are you using a Mac, perhaps? I know there are differences between OS's for the line break characters.

The following all works on windows for me, using Outlook - give it a try on your system:
var urlData = "testline1"+newline;
urlData += "testline2"+"\r";
urlData +="testline3"+"\n";
urlData +="testline4"+unescape("%0D%0A"); //windows CRLF
urlData += "testline5"+unescape("%0A"); //LF only
urlData += "testline6"+unescape("%0D"); //CR only - same as \r
urlData +="testline7"
getURL("mailto:some.body@something.com?subject=Venture&body="+urlData);

Issue #3
Well...You can't say it was sent... see issue #1...that's up to the user to press the send button in their email client's new message window. You could simply issue a
this._parent.gotoAndStop(someOtherFrameNumber)
after your getURL. The new frame could display instructions requesting them to press send on their email client.
You should also be aware that there is (as far as I am aware) no way of checking whether an email client exists and whether the send message screen was displayed.

Hi Flasher!!

Two ways to this. Use a html text and add a simple tag <br> or declare a variable
new_line = "\n";

That´s all and Hope this help you and Happy Flash
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