[SOLVED] catch events

[Liox]

Hello everybody,

I'm new in Zimbra and I read all day documentations, source code, the wiki and this forum about programming Zimlets to provide new functionality to this marvellous application. I understand, that I can mark a special part of a message with a regular expression like a email address, a order number and what else or drop something on a icon to do some action.
But I need to read some external sources as soon as the user clicks on the header of a message to open it for reading.
Can a Zimlet catch this event and supply the sender address as well?
If this is possible, can someone provide a snippet of code?
Unfortunate I could not find anything about this issue in the documentation and every Zimlet I saw so far used a method I described above.
Thanks in advanced.

By Michael

[Liox]

Hello again,

today I had a closer look at the ZmZimletBase.js and the ZmMailMsg.js scripts. Voila I found the solution myself.
There is a prototype in the ZmZimletBase.js named "onMsgView" which will called every time you view a new message.

Here a example javascript:

function GetFromAddress() {
}

GetFromAddress.prototype = new ZmZimletBase();
GetFromAddress.prototype.constructor = GetFromAddress;

GetFromAddress.prototype.onMsgView =
function(msg, oldMsg){
	var from = msg.getAddress(AjxEmailAddress.FROM);
	alert(from);
};

And the appropriate XML File:

<zimlet name="GetFromAddress" version="1.0" description="Get the sender address and print an alert">
	<include>getFromAddress.js</include>
	<handlerObject>GetFromAddress</handlerObject>
	
</zimlet>

Hope this helps someone else...

[riju123]

Originally Posted by Liox

Hello again,

today I had a closer look at the ZmZimletBase.js and the ZmMailMsg.js scripts. Voila I found the solution myself.
There is a prototype in the ZmZimletBase.js named "onMsgView" which will called every time you view a new message.

Here a example javascript:

function GetFromAddress() {
}

GetFromAddress.prototype = new ZmZimletBase();
GetFromAddress.prototype.constructor = GetFromAddress;

GetFromAddress.prototype.onMsgView =
function(msg, oldMsg){
	var from = msg.getAddress(AjxEmailAddress.FROM);
	alert(from);
};

And the appropriate XML File:

<zimlet name="GetFromAddress" version="1.0" description="Get the sender address and print an alert">
	<include>getFromAddress.js</include>
	<handlerObject>GetFromAddress</handlerObject>
	
</zimlet>

Hope this helps someone else...

Hey Liox , Thanx for the post it helped me a lot ..
But i didnt create a new zimlet for that ... Since its giving error after deploying .. I am new to zimlets . i created the XML and the JS file as you have posted ...
Am getting the following error in mailbox.log

2009-06-25 09:54:31,270 INFO [btpool0-7] [name=zimbra;ip=10.200.220.186;] soap - DeployZimletRequest
2009-06-25 09:54:31,272 INFO [Thread-480] [] zimlet - deploy
java.io.FileNotFoundException: zimlet description not found: GetFromAddress.xml
at com.zimbra.cs.zimlet.ZimletFile.initZimletDescript ion(ZimletFile.java:199)
at com.zimbra.cs.zimlet.ZimletFile.initialize(ZimletF ile.java:191)
at com.zimbra.cs.zimlet.ZimletFile.<init>(ZimletFile. java:146)
at com.zimbra.cs.service.admin.DeployZimlet$DeployThr ead.run(DeployZimlet.java:96)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)

if u can plz explain me the above .

so what i did is used the function in some other zimlet (ie i edited another zimlet ) and am getting the from address from there .

Another Querry ::
Is it possible to get the From address or the Subject without using the onMsgView Function .
What would u suggest if i need these values(from and subject) inside an Already existing function .

Many Thanx in Advance

[ashish_clarion]

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