Outlook 2003 and TOleAuto... need some tips

[Luis Krause]

I need to do the following actions with Outlook 2003

1) When in the Composing a message window in Outlook, is there a way to intercept the To, CC, BBC buttons so that I can show the user a list of emails to pick from our own app instead of having Outlook show the address book?

2) From within a FWH app, is there a way to obtain Outlooks address book to allow a user to pick email addresses? (sort of the opposite of item 1).

Any useful links that have samples using Outlooks VBA coding?

Regards,

Luis Krause

[Enrico Maria Giordano]

For the 2):

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#define olFolderContacts 10


FUNCTION MAIN()

    LOCAL oOutlook := CREATEOBJECT( "Outlook.Application" )
    LOCAL oNameSpace := oOutlook:GetNameSpace("MAPI")
    LOCAL oContacts := oNameSpace:GetDefaultFolder( olFolderContacts )

    LOCAL i

    SET DATE BRITISH

    FOR i = 1 TO oContacts:Items:Count
        ? oContacts:Items[ i ]:FullName
        ? oContacts:Items[ i ]:BusinessAddressStreet
        ? oContacts:Items[ i ]:BusinessAddressPostalCode
        ? oContacts:Items[ i ]:BusinessAddressCity
        ? oContacts:Items[ i ]:BusinessAddressState
        ? oContacts:Items[ i ]:BusinessAddressCountry
        ? oContacts:Items[ i ]:BusinessTelephoneNumber
        ? oContacts:Items[ i ]:Email1Address
        ? oContacts:Items[ i ]:LastModificationTime
        ?
        ? oContacts:Items[ i ]:Categories
        ?
    NEXT

    oOutlook:Quit()

    RETURN NIL

EMG

[Luis Krause]

Enrico:

Excellent.. that gives me some other ideas.
Any clues for no 1)?

For the 2):

EMG

Regards,

Luis Krause

[Enrico Maria Giordano]

No, sorry. You may search for OLE event handler.

EMG

[James Bott]

Luis,

>1) When in the Composing a message window in Outlook, is there a way to intercept the To, CC, BBC buttons so that I can show the user a list of emails to pick from our own app instead of having Outlook show the address book?

You could do the whole message (including To, CC, BCC ) with a FWH dialog then just send the message via MAPI. This would give you complete control.

You could provide a list of contacts either from your own FW database or from the Outlook address book via the code Enrico provided.

James