The right way to email a video

[Mag]

Hi,

which is the best way to send a video via email? I'm trying this but the video file is not attached to the composed email...

mobileComposeMail "My subject", , , , "My body", videoPath

[Mark]

Hi,

There are (at least) two ways to send an attachment. The first is to attach the binary data directly.

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put url ("binfile:" & myVideoPath) into myData["data"]
put "video/mp4" into myData["type"]
put "File Name" into myData["name"]
mobileComposeMail "My subject", , , , "My body", myData

The second way is to provide a file path.

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put myVideoPath into myData["file"]
put "video/mp4" into myData["type"]
put "File Name" into myData["name"]
mobileComposeMail "My subject", , , , "My body", myData

In both cases, the attachment parameter needs to be an array.

The mobileComposeMail entry in the dictionary contains some very good examples and is worth reading.

Kind regards,

Mark

[Mag]

Thank you so much Mark, this make all clear.

[Mag]

Is the first way adapt also to send images? I mean, could I send an image without have a file?

[Mark]

Hi,

Yes, that should work.

I don't know if this is relevant to you, but this won't work on Android due to a bug. It works on iOS only.

Kind regards,

Mark

[Mag]

Hi,

Yes, that should work.

I don't know if this is relevant to you, but this won't work on Android due to a bug. It works on iOS only.

Kind regards,

Mark

Oh, yes, it's very relevant, it was just because I could not send attachments with Android I wanted to know this method. So now I know that there is no hope. Thanks for telling me.

PS
Just to understand, to send an image, what I should write instead of

put url ("BinFile:" & myVideoPath) into myData ["date"]?

[Mark]

Hi,

If you want to send an image that is on the card, you can use

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put the text of img 1 into myData["data"]

and if you want to send an image that is on disk, you can use a file path in the same way as with videos. Keep in mind that the mime type is different. For PNG files for example:

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put url ("binfile:" & myPicturePath) into myData["data"]
put "image/png" into myData["type"]
put "File Name" into myData["name"]
mobileComposeMail "My subject", , , , "My body", myData

If you want to include an image from the stack rather than from a file and you don't know which format the image is in, you can export it first:

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export snapshot from img 1 to myPictureData as PNG
put myPictureData into myData["data"]
put empty into myPictureData
put "image/png" into myData["type"]
put "File Name" into myData["name"]
mobileComposeMail "My subject", , , , "My body", myData

Kind regards,

Mark

[Mag]

Thank you so much Mark!