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Auto email send from memo fields

Auto email send from memo fields in Paradox Forms topic (part of our Corel Paradox / ObjectPAL Coding group).

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Sam.S
North Hartland, VT USA

I recently converted an app from 7.5 to paradox 11 and I am finding when entering Memo fields  with @ and . in them automatically do a mail.sendDLG() opening a new email message with the contents of the memo field as the TO: field.

Does anyone know how to control this?

Thanks

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You could only do this, I believe, if the email address is the only content (I can't see any script stripping everything but the address away, although it might be possible with wild cards).

If this is the case, why not just convert the memo to alpha numeric and use the native merge program in any text editor?

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Sam.S
North Hartland, VT USA

I may not have been clear. 

Paradox is doing this behavior automatically, no code on my part, and I don't want it to.  I am assuming corel thought this was a clever feature, to take anything that might be an email address and assume you want to send to it.  It's pretty annoying and I would like to stop it.  I have worked in borlands 7.5 paradox for many years and am just now joinging the new mellenium, so this beahior is new to me.

I thought maybe it had something to do with my legacy app, so in PDOX11 I created a fresh table with a memo field and then created a fresh form with a table frame linked to the table.  I added successive records with the following values in the memo field:

"A bunch of text with @and .com"

"Andriana placed order for 5,000 PS95 @ .18 each.  Have plant send copy of invoice with shipping."

"PS95 @ .18 each.  Have"

With edit off, I mouse click into the field and without any code from me, paradox triggers the effect of a senddlg() using the value of the memo field for the "to" field in the new email.

I did note that with edit() on entering the field does not trigger the email.  But I would rather not have to take it into edit to avoid the unintended senddlg() behavior.

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Sam.S
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I think I have found a solution to the problem of paradox automatically trying to email when a field is selected that contains text "@" and a "." followed by text.

In preferences, the general tab, there is a check box in the bottom right for "Disable Hyperlinks".  It is checked by default.  It seems like unchecking it resolves the objectional behavior.

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