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- From: alex@laos (Alex D. Nghiem)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer
- Subject: messaging mail in 3.0 with distributed objects -- you can't!
- Keywords: distributed objects, mail, 3.0
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.143442.14079@pencom.com>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 14:34:42 GMT
- Sender: usenet@pencom.com (Usenet Psuedo User)
- Reply-To: alex@pencom.com
- Organization: Pencom Software
- Lines: 101
-
- Hello there:
-
- Several weeks ago, I posted a message asking for help on how to message mail
- using remote objects. This is the only concrete response I got (Thanks,
- William!):
-
- ================================================================
- Begin forwarded message:
-
- From: William Shipley <wjs@blorf.cpac.washington.edu>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 01:34:22 -0700
- To: Alex D. Nghiem <alex@pencom.com>
- Subject: Re: sending remote messages to mail in 3.0
-
- Speaker/Listener and Distributed Objects are separate paradigms. While one
- would hope that everyone using the former would update to the latter, this
- isn't always the case.
-
- Specifically, it appears Mail in 3.0 doesn't implement distributed objects.
- Stupid, yes, but then again there's lots to complain about in Mail.
-
- So, you're stuck using Speaker/Listener, apparently.
-
- -W
-
- =============================================================
-
- For those that are interested, the following code was posted by Andy Stone
- several weeks earlier:
-
- Here's the new, perhaps undocumented, API for Mail:
-
- Mail.msg:
-
- - openSend;
- - setTo:(char *)toField;
- - setSubject:(char *)subjectField;
- - setCc:(char *) ccField;
- - setBody:(char *) bodyField;
- - deliver;
- -openSend:(int *)sender;
- -setTo : (char *) toField inWindow:(int)sender;
- -setSubject : (char *) subjectField inWindow:(int)sender;
- -setCc : (char *) ccField inWindow:(int)sender;
- -setBody : (char *) bodyField inWindow:(int)sender;
- -deliver:(int)sender;
-
- Note you can now get the id of the newly created window, which will
- prevent the "overwrite of an existing window" bug which everyone was
- alternately blaming Jayson, me, or a dozen others who snarfed that
- undocumented, unpublished hack to send to Mail.
- Include Mail.msg in your app, and it will create the MailListener and
- MailSpeaker h and m files.
-
- Here's a sample calling for 3.0PR2 or greater:
-
- - sendMailTo:(const char *)to subject:(const char *)subject body:(const
- char*)body
- {
- port_t mail;
- id speaker;
- int theWin;
-
-
- speaker = [MailSpeaker new];
- mail = NXPortFromName("MailSendDemo", ""); // ACK for now it works
-
- [speaker setSendPort:mail];
- [speaker openSend:&theWin];
- if (subject)[speaker setSubject:(char *)subject inWindow:theWin];
- if (to)[speaker setTo:(char *)to inWindow:theWin];
- if (body)[speaker setBody:(char *)body inWindow:theWin];
- [speaker free];
- return self;
- }
-
- andrew
-
- --
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-
-
-
- Thanks to both William and Andy for their help.
-
-
- Best regards,
-
-
- Alex Duong Nghiem Phone: (512) 343-1111
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