I am trying to provide an email link when I display a message with MsgBox function - that is, when user clicks the link, they can email to the email link. How do I do that, or can I do that?

Thanks.

You need to give the user a choice of buttons, one for Ok, the other for Cancel (vbOKCancel). Then, check the button choice. If they choose Cancel, then end the script. If they choose OK, then make a call to the proper application to generate the email with the address and perhaps subject line already filled. That will depend on which application object you are using for email.

You can also prompt the user for the email information (Subject line, message, etc), using input boxes, and then package and send the email using an SMTP emailer.

HTH

mmcdonal

Thanks for the info.

I'm more thinking about doing HTML thru msgbox - display a string of message or text, then provide link to other pages with "<A></A>" tag, which also includes something like "mailto:".

Is this possible at all?

In VB you can “override” VB functions by writing your own in a module within the project. VB automatically checks project resources before checking VB's libraries.
That would allow you to write your own MsgBox function that displays your own form as a “message box.” If you wanted to, you could put a text field (label, button, textbox, ...) on the form's face that effectively operates as a hyperlink.

I don’t think you’ll be able to do this in VBScript.

I believe your only approach for this is going to be either to let the button the user selects control the behavior of the script to enable sending mail through code (as mmcdonal suggested), or write a “message box” html document with the email link in it, and display that HTML document in an internet browser instead of showing a message box. (Of course, that would not be modal, as a message box is...)

There is one other thing that you could do, the process of which I’m not sure of: Write a true VB ActiveX DLL that presents a VB form with the e-mail link on it as the action of a function in the DLL. When you call the function (which I’m not sure how you do in VBScript) the call would be synchronous, giving you the ability to mimic a modal dialog. You could write the function to take all the e-mail details as arguments. Just a thought.

I'll think about the second approach you suggested - that's also what's in my mind. Thank you.