When I use the mailto command in Firefox, it works just fine, but when I use Explorer, it opens the e-mail form properly, but also brings up an extra Explorer window, with the mailto command in it’s address bar, that says:
Navigation to the webpage was canceled

What you can try:
Retype the address.

So people can still send me an e-mail, they just get this extra page opening up with an error. It looks unprofessional. Any idea why this is happening?

thanks

EDK

Alas, the short answer is no.

What you’re calling a function (mailto) is actually a protocol, like the http protocol used in browsers. The explicit mention of a given protocol tells the operating system how to interpret the data that go with it — in this case, an email address and possibly additional email-related information. Flash Player simply isn’t an email client, which is why it relies on the default email client (e.g. Outlook Express) installed on the user’s machine.

The mailto protocol in Flash works very much like the same protocol used in HTML documents. If you add an <a> tag for the same email address in an HTML page, does the hyperlink open your email client?

Is it possible for “mailto” to function in flash only? as well as .exe ?
I’ve tried the coding you given here but the outlook express doesn’t appear
when i test movie in flash.
Please help me !!
Thanks in advance, appreciate your sharing

Cedric

If you’re familiar with PHP at all, you should be able to convert a regular PHP form handler — the kind that sends an email to you (rather than a friend) — to the sort you need. You’ll just replace the To: field with a variable sent from the SWF.

I did find quite a few “tell a friend” scripts via Google. I happen to like PHP, but any server-side scripting language will do. If you can submit to a script from an HTML page, Flash will be able to do the same. Here’s a free one that came up near the top of my search list:

Softpedia’s Tell a Friend PHP Script 1.01

Is it doing that even when the SWF has been uploaded to your server? isaque notice that the problem went away from tested remotely.

To isaque …

For better or worse, that’s likely a limitation that can’t be avoided.

To Brian …

I’ve never used Lotus Notes, so I can’t help you on this one. :-/ Here’s hoping other readers can!

code:

link_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,change_page);

function change_page(e:MouseEvent):void
{
navigateToURL(new URLRequest(”mailto:info@website.edu?subject=SUBJECT&body=Enter your name:%0A%0AEnter your email or phone number:”));
}

Would love the help.. cant find much out there on this topic!