Calling an External App
Art Campbell
art.campbell at gmail.com
Mon Sep 18 13:09:55 PDT 2006
In FM, embed a hypertext link saying:
message URL mailto:name at isp.net
Because you have no way of knowing what the default ap is, this basic
string probably won't work on ALL systems because of the way different
browsers and OSs invoke the mail client. Probably works on most
systems most of the time, but...
Art
On 9/18/06, Ron Miller <ronsmiller at comcast.net> wrote:
> I have a client that wants to call the default email application from
> the PDF and online help (produced with WWP). Putting WWP aside for now,
> is there a way to set up a call to an external application, have the
> application open and be populated?
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