Inside Macintosh: Programmer's Guide to MacApp / Part 2 - Working With MacApp

Chapter 29 -
Working With PowerTalk Mailers

This chapter describes how to turn your application's documents into electronic mail using the PowerTalk support provided by MacApp. It includes recipes and sample code that demonstrate how to

• add MacApp's PowerTalk support to your application
• define a document class that supports PowerTalk mailers

MacApp's implementation of PowerTalk support is described in detail in "PowerTalk Mailers," beginning on page 192.

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Chapter Contents

Overview

Recipes--PowerTalk Mailers

Recipe--Adding PowerTalk Support to Your Application

Build Your Application to Include MacApp's PowerTalk Support

Include the Mail Menu in Your Application

Initialize MacApp's Mailer Support

Define an Application Subclass of TMailingApplication

Decide Whether to Define a New Type for Letter Files

Recipe--Adding Mailer Support to a Document Class

Decide Which Mail Formats to Support

Define a Subclass of TMailableDocument for Your Mailer Document

Set the Document's fSendFormats Field

Override Methods to Get and Set Mailer Data

AddNativeMailContent, ReadNativeMailContent

AddSnapshotMailContent, ImageDocumentForMailer, ReadSnapshotMailContent

AddStandardMailContent, ReadStandardMailContent

If Necessary, Override SetReplyContents

If Necessary, Override MMailable::MakeRoomForMailer

If Necessary, Override TLetter::OpenLetter