Re: [Evolution-hackers] Create task based on email

[Celso Pinto <cpinto yimports com>]

Thanks a lot, the API is exactly what I need.
Cheers,
Celso

Rodrigo Moya wrote:

> On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 17:36 +0100, Celso Pinto wrote:
>  
>
> > Hi all,
> > I really need a feature on Evolution that allows me to create a new task
> > based on the contents of an email. 
> > It should work like this: I receive an email, right-click with mouse on
> > it, choose Create task and the "New task" Dialog pops up with the
> > contents of the email on it's description field (only text). 
> > One other way, yet harder, would be to implement some kind of "symlink"
> > between a task and an email.
> >
> > Because I want this available, I'm more than willing to do some coding,
> > but i'm having some trouble finding out where to start, so I have some
> > questions:
> > 1) where can I find the "Task" struct?
> >
> >    
> what do you mean? I guess you want the API for building a task and then
> saving it to a task folder. For that, use libecal, which contains
> ECalComponent for creating the task, and ECal, for contacting a calendar
> backend. You have some documentation at:
>
> http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution/developer-doc/libecal/index.html
>
>  
>
> > 2) how do I create a new task dialog? Should I signal some kind of
> > Evolution service saying "i'd like to create a new task dialog and
> > here's the contents" or can I execute some function that popup's up the
> > New task-dialog?
> >
> >    
> you can use the task editor service on the calendar component. For that,
> you just need to do what the alarm daemon does (evo/calendar/gui/alarm-
> notify/alarm-queue.c, in the edit_component function).
>
> cheers
>
>