Passing selected record ids to Apex controller from List View

[asoyer]

I'm looking for an alternative to passing selected records from a List View via the URL.  Here is how I'm currently doing it, but I'm running into IE URL limits when more than 100 records are selected.  This is a custom List view button executing JavaScript.

var ids = {!GETRECORDIDS( $ObjectType.Account )};

if(ids.length < 1 ) {
alert('Please select at least one Account.')
}
else {
// window.open('/apex/Quick_Email?rec='+ids.join(',')+'&retURL=001/o');
window.location='/apex/Quick_Email?rec='+ids.join(',')+'&retURL=001/o';
}

What other methods could I implement?

[tedward · Accepted solution]

You could create a custom list view button that points to a visual force page that uses the standard list controller and uses a custom controller extension to do the actions you want.  For example:

VF Page:

<apex:page
  standardController="Account"
  recordSetVar="accounts"
  extensions="quickEmailController">
  <apex:form >
     <apex:pageBlock >
       <apex:pageBlockTable value="{!selected}" var="account">
         <apex:column value="{!account.name}"/>
       </apex:pageBlockTable>
       <apex:pageBlockButtons location="bottom">
         <apex:commandButton value="Do Something" action="{!doSomething}"/>
       </apex:pageBlockButtons>
     </apex:pageBlock>
  </apex:form>
</apex:page>

Extension controller:

public class quickEmailController{
    
    ApexPages.StandardSetController setCon;
    
    public quickEmailController(ApexPages.StandardSetController controller)
    {
        setCon = controller;
    }

    public pageReference doSomething()
    {
        // do something with the selected records
        for ( Account acc : (Account[])setCon.getSelected() )
        {
                System.debug('Account name = ' + acc.Name);
        }
        return null;
    }
}

[asoyer]

Thanks tedward.  this worked great.  The StandardSetController did the trick.

[ImpactMG]

Is it possible to use this technique without a Custom Button?

I would like to call a visualforce page like the one shown above with a set of records from another Visualforce Page with own Apex Controller:

public with sharing class myController {
  list<Account> Accounts;

  public PageReference CallOtherVisualforcePageWithListOfAccounts{
    ApexPages.PageReference myRef = Page.MyPage;
    // Pass Accounts to myRef !?!
 }
}

is there a way to accomplish that?