Send to friend button

ChirpinGames

Hey just wondering if there was a way maybe even from within xcode to add a simple send to friend button. Once tapped this button would open up the iphone email app, prepopulate the message field with something like "hey check out this game its great heres an itunes store link" and allow the user to simply pass on your game information to a friend. The actual code isnt to hard in xcode im just wondering how we would go about finding the button that we've created in gamesalad after exporting to xcode.
Cheers,
Mark

design219

I like that idea!

GameSalad

You can use the openURL behavior (if you are a PRO subscriber).

Check out this link about making that URL.

http://www.ianr.unl.edu/internet/mailto.html

CodeMonkey

You can use the openURL behavior (if you are a PRO subscriber).

Check out this link about making that URL.

http://www.ianr.unl.edu/internet/mailto.html

ChirpinGames

Fantastic thanks CodeMonkey

ChirpinGames

Hey guys,
My account got upgraded today to the pro so I've begun to experiment with the send to friend button however i can't seem to get it working.
The only way i can get a link to work is if i put a http:// at the start eg http://www.google.com will work. Any ideas on how to get a mailto: to work anyone???

CodeMonkey

The link above didn't work to help you?

I used the example and just put in

mailto:astark1@unl.edu

and it opened my email with the To: filled in.

ChirpinGames

Hey Codemonkey,
Thanks for the help. Yeah i tried mailto with a 'to address, subject and body'.
Did you test through the gsviewer or did u export to xcode?
Could it have been the subject and/or body that through it off...
I'll try just the normal one: mailto:astark1@unl.edu tonight and make sure i can get that working first.
cheers

ChirpinGames

Hey all... in case anybodies interested i couldn't get all of the methods here (http://www.ianr.unl.edu/internet/mailto.html) to work on the iphone but if you use this link:
http://email.about.com/library/misc/blmailto_encoder.htm it all good.
It just outputs the html slightly different and works perfectly!
Cheers for the help codemonkey.