Visual FoxPro

Change the Filename of an Attachment

Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.SetAttachmentFilename method, which changes the filename of the attachment at a given zero-based index. This example adds an attachment and renames it, printing the filename before and after.

Background: The attachment filename is what a recipient sees and what most clients suggest when saving the file. Renaming it is handy when the original name is unclear, unsafe, or generic — for example giving a machine-generated tmp12345 a meaningful name like invoice.pdf before sending.

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LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loEmail

lnSuccess = 0

*  Demonstrates the SetAttachmentFilename method, which changes the filename of the
*  attachment at the given zero-based index.

loEmail = CreateObject('Chilkat.Email')
loEmail.Subject = "Set attachment filename"

loEmail.AddStringAttachment("oldname.txt","Some notes.")
? "Filename before: " + loEmail.GetAttachmentFilename(0)

*  Change the filename of the first attachment (index 0).
lnSuccess = loEmail.SetAttachmentFilename(0,"newname.txt")
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loEmail.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loEmail
    CANCEL
ENDIF

? "Filename after: " + loEmail.GetAttachmentFilename(0)

RELEASE loEmail