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Re: ShellExecute broken in Win10

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> or
>
> * there's a bug in your VBA code

As stated.., my VB6 version uses the same exact code; -it works as expected. 
I'm now assuming this is a VBA issue and nothing to do with VB6 since it seems 
to be working there just as it does for Gry Scott.

My fault for not checking this out! I normally dev new stuff in VBA 1st to work 
out the logistics, then make a VB6 version using the same code. When I 
discovered the lcase issue I googled it and got lots of reading that confirmed 
it to be a Win10 ShellExecute issue.
>
>  :) that said, check these out
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29847933/vb-6-0-open-default-email-client-and-populate-some-entries
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25906657/encodeuricomponent-or-escape-in-vb6
>
Neither of these offer anything helpful. Thanks, though, for making the 
effort...

> also, and since we're at it; here's an alternate idea, instead of
> shelling out the string, you may let the system do it for you, the idea
> is the following:
>
> Add a form to your app
>
> Add a "web browser" control to the form and a button to close it
>
> Populate the webbrowser HTML with some text and a "mailto" URL and
> ensure to properly "HTMLencode" the URL
>
> now, when clicking the URL, the mail client will open and populate with
> the given fields (mailto, body...)

The procedure is already fired by a form button so I might be willing to 
explore this at some time in the future if I really need to have the user 
intervene in the product registration process. Since that's not necessary I 
decided to go with CDO for this task. I've also revised my registration manager 
to do same for sending activation keys to users.

Since the issue lies with a VBA problem, I can use Excel's built-in 'Send to > 
Mail Recipient' functionality for all other stuff that doesn't require being in 
Base64 format.

-- 
Garry

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ShellExecute broken in Win10 GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-05-08 19:03 -0400
  Re: ShellExecute broken in Win10 Gary Scott <garylscott@sbcglobal.net> - 2017-05-08 19:16 -0500
    Re: ShellExecute broken in Win10 GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-05-08 22:11 -0400
      Re: ShellExecute broken in Win10 Gary Scott <garylscott@sbcglobal.net> - 2017-05-09 08:12 -0500
        Re: ShellExecute broken in Win10 GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-05-09 11:58 -0400
          Re: ShellExecute broken in Win10 Gary Scott <garylscott@sbcglobal.net> - 2017-05-09 20:26 -0500
            Re: ShellExecute broken in Win10 GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-05-10 01:01 -0400
  Re: ShellExecute broken in Win10 GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-05-08 22:46 -0400
    Re: ShellExecute broken in Win10 GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-05-08 22:52 -0400
      Re: ShellExecute broken in Win10 Arne Saknussemm <esre.10.arnsak@spamgourmet.com> - 2017-05-09 09:58 +0200
        Re: ShellExecute broken in Win10 GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-05-09 14:13 -0400
        Re: ShellExecute broken in Win10 GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-05-09 14:41 -0400
  Re: ShellExecute broken in Win10 - Mystery solved! GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-05-10 12:50 -0400

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