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You may want to allow users to send you back feedback. You can either send it directly to your site via sockets or send the user to your website. What if you don’t have a website? No feedback? Yeah, right. Just have them send it to you by e-mail.

You can not send spaces in URLs, you have to convert them first. Example: if the subject were to be ‘Bug Report!’ then you should put %20 instead of the space character – ‘Bug%20Report!’. %20 is the ASCII value for space.

In this example MemoBugText is the memo in which the user describes the bug, ‘bugreports@youremail.com’ is your e-mail address and ‘Bug Report’ is the subject of that e-mail.

Code block

uses
  ShellAPI, Windows;

Code block

// For more information on ShellExecute() check out our tip
// "How to run programs and execute documents, mailto links and URLs" in the Windows category
ShellExecute(0, 'open', PChar('mailto:bugreports@youremail.com?subject=Bug%20Report&Body=' + MemoBugText.Text), nil, nil, SW_SHOWNORMAL);

If you want to include a link to a web page and you want Netscape Navigator to do it you may want to look at this code. This should work with Netscape Navigator. This function has not yet been tested with Netscape Navigator 6.0.

uses
  DDEMan, Registry;
...
procedure StartNetscape(const sURL: string);
const
  sNETSCAPE = 'Netscape';
var
  sLocation: string;
begin
  with TRegistry.Create do
    try
      RootKey := HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT;
      if OpenKeyReadOnly(sNETSCAPE + 'MarkupprotocolStdFileEditingserver') then begin
        sLocation := ReadString('');
        CloseKey;
      end;
    finally
      Free;
    end;

  with TDDEClientConv.Create(nil) do
    try
      { The location of Netscape Navigator }
      ServiceApplication := sLocation;
      { Activate Netscape Navigator }
      SetLink(sNETSCAPE, 'WWW_Activate');
      RequestData('0xFFFFFFFF');
      { Go to the specified URL }
      SetLink(sNETSCAPE, 'WWW_OpenURL');
      RequestData(sURL + ',,0xFFFFFFFF,0x3,,,');
      CloseLink;
    finally
      Free;
    end;
end;

Example: StartNetscape(‘http://www.m3Rlin.org‘);