Re: Questions on "Calling PC Commands from RPG" article

On 10/26/05, Clapham, Paul <pclapham@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Ah, looks like & is being treated as something that separates commands. I
> don't see how to turn that off (in my 2 minutes of looking). But that's only
> the start of Dan's problems. If I recall correctly he said he was planning
> to simulate Alt-Tab followed by scraping information from screens displayed
> on the PC. I wouldn't even try that for love or money. Especially not in
> Java, but not even in a language that lets you hack Windows.


First of all, there's no "screen-scraping" involved. Whatever appears on the
screen is also sitting in the application's variables.

Next, the MAILTO: URL is less of a mystery to me now than it was an hour
ago, thanks to the links you provided. I always wondered how MAILTO: knew to
open up Outlook, or Eudora, or whatever the default email client is.
Microsoft's KB pointed me to look at the registry.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail shows which is the default client.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Clients\Mail\Microsoft
Outlook\Protocols\mailto\shell\open\command shows the command invoked by the
mailto URL:
"C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\Office10\OUTLOOK.EXE" -c IPM.Note /m "%1"

It would be nice to know how to decipher <-c IPM.Note /m "%1"> and whether
this would help accomplish the goal of throwing the To:, Subject: and Body:
all at once.