EmailRunApp (Function)

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Special cases
Members of the Email structure taken into account
Application in the background: Specific case from Android 10

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EmailRunApp (Function)

In french: EmailLanceAppli

Starts the native application for sending emails found on the current computer:

Computer running Windows (using the MAPI client),
Mobile device: Android, iPhone, iPad, Universal Windows 10.

The content and recipients of the email message are initialized from the information specified in the WLanguage Email structure.

Caution:

The application for sending emails found on the current computer must have been configured with a valid account for sending emails (SMTP).
The current directory can be modified according to the configuration of the application for sending emails.

Example

// Envoi d'un message avec pièce jointe 
Email.Recipient[1] = "destinataire@mail.com"
Email.NbRecipient = 1
Email.Subject = "Sujet du message"
Email.Message = "Texte du message"
// Photo.jpg est un fichier qui a été créé par l'application
Email.Attach[1] = SysDirExternalStorage(1, ssePublicDocument) + [fSep] + "photo.jpg"
Email.NbAttach = 1
EmailRunApp()

Syntax

EmailRunApp()

Remarks

Special cases

A non-fatal error is triggered if no application for sending emails is found on the current computer. To find out whether the application for sending emails failed to start, use the ErrorOccurred variable.
EmailRunApp can be used in the emulator. It cannot be used in the simulator.
The application for sending emails supplied by default in the former versions of Android (<= 1.6) cannot be used to initialize the message with more than one attachment. In this case, only the first attachment described in Email.Attach will be associated with the message.
In Android, if the message to be sent includes attachments, they must be on the shared memory (e.g: SDCard) in order to be accessible to the email client.
To reinitialize the Email structure, use EmailReset.
EmailRunApp is a non-blocking function. The code that follows the call to this function will continue to run as soon as the application for sending emails is started.
There is no way to find out whether the sending of the email was validated by the user.

Members of the Email structure taken into account

Only the following members of the Email structure will be taken into account when initializing the message to send:

Email.Attach
Email.Cc
Email.Bcc
Email.Bcc
Email.Recipient
Email.Message
Email.NbAttach
Email.NbCc
Email.NbBcc
Email.NbBcc
Email.NbRecipient
Email.Subject

The following members are taken into account:

Email.Attach
Email.Cc
Email.Bcc
Email.Recipient
Email.Message
Email.Subject

Application in the background: Specific case from Android 10

From Android 10, it is no longer possible to open a window when the application is in the background.

EmailRunApp can open a window. If this function is used while the application is in the background, a fatal error will occur.

Tips:

It is possible to determine if the application is in the background using InBackgroundMode.
If an application needs to interact with the user while it is in the background, the solution is to display a notification (via the Notification type). The application will be brought back to the foreground when the notification is clicked, if the ActivateApplication property is set to True. You can also open a window from the procedure passed to the ActionClick property.

For more details, see Android 10: Behavior of applications in the background.

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