Re: [Evolution-hackers] invoking composer via bonobo...

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 02:23, Karl Pitrich wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 18:40, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 12:28, Karl Pitrich wrote:
> > > 
> > > i found composer.c (by miguel) in some old cvs somewhere,
> > > and am trying to make it work with evolution 1.4.
> > 
> > P'raps I'm being dim -- it's not entirely unheard of... but what does
> > this do that isn't also achieved by 
> > 
> > evolution-1.4 "mailto:address example com&subject=Fish&cc=pit root at
> 
> well, i need to make a mozilla plugin, providing a JavaScript
> LiveConnect object that interfaces to evolution.
> 
> the main problem is, "mailto:..."; cannot add attachments or set
> the body content type.

You can actually set attachments, not sure about the content-type thing,
or setting the body content.

I think you use a parameter like: attach=filename (or gnomevfs uri)

If you're just going to exec a program anyway you should probably use
that, and additional parameters could be added I guess.

If you want a programmatic interface, then thats another issue ...

Are you saying show_composer works, but setting any headers doesn't?  Or
does nothing work?

Actually the composer is part of the mailer, which is a shlib object, so
you can't really instantiate it outside of the shell anyway.  Otherwise
you'll get another copy, which could interfere with the existing copy in
nasty (tho probably non data-destroying) ways.

So I think the 'current way' is to get hold of the shell (or mail
component?) object and do a 'send to url' method, which is for all
intents exactly the same as exec'ing evolution with the url.