I would like to be able to intercept a hyperlink from an email on BlackBerry.
e.g.
dummy site
I have been able to intercept and identify text in a plain text email using PatternRepository. However, it doesn't seem to work with HTML emails - is this even possible?
I would like to avoid the solution of scanning every incoming email myself, and parsing all the text, but this might be the only option.
Thanks
This is not possible (up to and including BlackBerry 6 afaik). It is not related to the hyperlink concept - it is not possible to use PatternRepository with any type of text within HTML text.
For performance reasons, the BlackBerry designers decided not to implement pattern matching within HTML fields (browser, or email). This is very unfortunate, but it must be dealt with.
In my app, I had the freedom to define the contents of the email. In my case, I ended up including the pattern into the subject of the email - the user can click on the subject to get to my app.
In most other situations, I think the best/only way forward is to intercept each mail as it arrives and parse it looking for the text. If I have to do that in the future, I'll try to update this post with some sample code.
There are various posts on the BlackBerry forums about this issue.
Richard
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I'm working in a Blackberry app (OS 5.0) and need to show recent tweets of the user.
I'm able to get the data from Twitter's end. Now after parsing the entities (hashtags, urls, user-mentions etc), I need to display them with separate formatting (color, bold etc). So I'm using different LabelFields for different parts of the tweet.
But LabelFields are by default block elements. How do I put those LabelFields inline, so that it looks like how it is shown in Twitter?
like this:
Others have suggested RichTextField but you'd have to write your own text filter to colour the syntax - it's going to be a lot of effort. If having the clickable links inline is a must then personally I'd use a BrowserField but that would mean your logic would have to output a full screens worth of tweets into html (screens don't like having more than one browserfield - it's doable with more than one but there's some hacks) and manage the click events - more complications.
Alternatively you could do something like this: http://devblog.blackberry.com/2009/10/how-to-use-table-view-layout/ You wouldn't have clickable regions within the text body but it'd still be using native fields instead of 'cheating' with markup, probably the best way.
I've found that there's a component in Blackberry SDK called ActiveRichTextField which automatically scans its contents and parses links making them focusable and clickable. Furthur it'll also parse entities if Twitter app is installed in that device. For now it solves my problem. Thanks guys.
Is there a framework built in rails that lets me do something like send a message and then based off of user preferences automatically determine whether a text message, voice message or email message should be sent (or any combination of the 3 options)?
Also, if there is a framework like this, does it have support for receiving text messages or email messages and taking actions?
I know this is a big ask. The reason I am asking is because I have started implementing a system like this and am considering making it open source but I am curious if there is anything out there like this already that I should learn from first before publishing my system.
A full blown framework? No.
A helper library that does 95.2% of what you're looking for? Yes.
Using the Twilio gem - https://github.com/twilio/twilio-ruby - you can send SMS or Voice with a handful of lines of code. You don't need to know their mobile carrier either, you can just send the SMS/Call for pennies per message/minute.
If you need a hand with it, I'm happy to help. You can reach me at keith # twilio.com.
I would like to get translation from one ( best - automatically detected) language to 4 different using google-translate. My idea is to wrote a html document which contain 4 frames - in one of them I can find text form and button. After click on it, Internet browser will send demand to google translate and show results in 4 frames.
If you want a self service, hosted service that does translations and content management for you check out Localize.js
This is going to be terribly translated. As someone that speaks English well, Russian poorly, and Spanish even more poorly, I can detect that these auto-translations never come out right.
My recommendation is to serve your page through a basic system that will allow you to respond to submitted form values. Pass in &LANG=two country iso code and then have your backend serve up the correct data.
Have someone that speaks both languages prepare the content for you. Then, whenever you are serving these pages, you can also conditionally adjust CSS to account for differences in format which come from difference in language length.
If you don't have those capabilities available, make 5 pages. One in English and the other 4 in the other languages. You will seriously seem retarded to anyone that speaks those languages well if you use an auto-translate. I think this is a bad idea for any kind of professional page, even if you can work out the technical issues.
-Brian J. Stinar-
Google has an API to its translate tool that will enable you to send it some text and receive back that text translated into any language you choose.
edit: This is now a paid service
In my webapp i want to display user emails. But i dont want spam boots to steal my user emails. So have do i automatic create a image displaying there email?
Best regards,
A rails beginner
Creating an image is one way to go, but remember that OCR is getting to be an extremely "cheap" operation and isn't a guarantee that a bot wouldn't analyze all the pictures on your site to see if they contain text that looks like email addresses. There's plenty of techniques to "hide" addresses in plain sight. Write them out in character entity format, intersperse empty tags, uses javascript to decode an encoded form of them and insert into the page after load, etc...
There are some people in my office who insist on using cute stationery and some of it makes messages difficult to read. I really just want to read email on a white background with no distractions. Is there a way to disable stationery on incoming mail in Outlook? (Without switching to "plain text only")
yeah, I yanked that description from here
but it is very accurate however I've had no luck in finding a solution. Most solutions I see solve the problem by pushing out something to a bunch of users.
like : this
I don't really have the authority to do that. Not only that, that only prevents ME from setting stationery.
this has been asked before to no avail:
I don't have time to deal with this, so hopefully there is something I have overlooked.
Without switching to "plain text only" I want to be able to change a setting on my computer (it can be. a reg hack, I don't care) that will prevent outlook stationery from showing up in my email
it would also be helpful to know how to do it for Outlook 2003 as well.
No such setting/reghack exists. you would need to override the Item_Open event and change the message format from html or RTF (if either are detected) to Plaintext. This is the only way you could reliably strip out all the formatting junk without losing the text.
that or write a custom parsing agent (which would seem to be a bit harder).
either solution involves coding an addin to handle the open event and change the message format before displaying the message.
I'm not aware of a setting, but could you copy the text and paste it in Notepad?
I use that all the time to remove obnoxious formatting.