Time for action – calling the native e-mail application

We'll make some fields and a button to try out sending an e-mail feature.

1. Go to the e-mail card and create four fields. Name them From, CC, Subject, and Body.

2. Make a button named Test.

3. In the Test button, type the following script:

   on mouseUp
      put field "To" into toText
      put field "CC" into ccText
      put field "Subject" into subjectText
      put field "Body" into bodyText
      revMail toText,ccText,subjectText,bodyText
   end mouseup

4. Select the Run tool and type example information into each of the fields.

5. Click on the Test button.

What just happened?

One neat thing about LiveCode syntax is that the code for mobile applications also works for desktop applications, and vice versa. All being well, when you clicked the Test button you found yourself in your default e-mail application, ready to send the message that you had entered in the LiveCode stack fields.

Installing the e-mail test onto devices

It's no great surprise that the desktop test worked...