[L Jorissen]

Hello,

I have a strange problem. I've added a menuitem to the MENUITEM_EMAIL_VIEW so I'd expect the object to be passed into the run method to be of type "Message". This appears not to be the case because when run, I end up in the "else" part of my code, so the context object is not of type Message.

1) What is wrong in my code?
2) Eventually, I want to retrieve the sender, date, subject,... of the message for further use. How can I do this?

package com.rim.samples.docs.menuitem;

import net.rim.device.api.system.*;
import net.rim.device.api.ui.component.Dialog.*;
import net.rim.blackberry.api.menuitem.*;
import net.rim.blackberry.api.mail.*;
import java.util.*;

public final class DemoAppMenuItem extends Application {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        DemoAppMenuItem app = new DemoAppMenuItem();
        app.enterEventDispatcher();
    }

    DemoAppMenuItem() {
        ApplicationMenuItemRepository amir = ApplicationMenuItemRepository.getInstance();
        amir.addMenuItem(ApplicationMenuItemRepository.MENUITEM_EMAIL_VIEW, new SampleMenuItem());
    }

    public class SampleMenuItem extends ApplicationMenuItem
    {
        SampleMenuItem() {
            super(20);
        }
        
        public String toString() {
            return "Give me more!";
        }
        
        public Object run(Object context) {            
            if (context instanceof Message){
                Message msg = (Message)context;
                net.rim.device.api.ui.component.Dialog.alert("We're in!!");
            }
            else {
                net.rim.device.api.ui.component.Dialog.alert("Context was not a message!");
            }
            return null; 
        }
    }
}

Best regards, L J

[L Jorissen]

Hello again,

I found the solution!! Joehoe! It appears that the 3 messages that are standard in the "Messages" application in the device simulator are NO REAL email messages That's the reason why the context object is something, but no message object. I've composed an email on the simulator and for that one, my code worked.
I also figured out how to retrieve the contents of the email message. Like this: (code comes in run method)

if(context instanceof Message){
                Message msg = (Message)context;
                Dialog.alert("We're in!!");
                try {
                    Address[] recipients = msg.getRecipients(Message.RecipientType.TO);
                    Dialog.alert("The recipients: " + recipients);
                    Date sent = msg.getSentDate();
                    Dialog.alert("Sent on: " + sent);
                    Address from = msg.getFrom();
                    Dialog.alert("Sender: " + from);
                    String subject = msg.getSubject();
                    Dialog.alert("Subject: " + subject);
                    String bodytxt = msg.getBodyText();
                    Dialog.alert("Message: " + bodytxt);
                }
                catch(MessagingException e)
                {
                    Dialog.alert(e.getMessage());
                }

Hope you can learn from this.
Best regards, L J.