How to use MsgBox and other pop-up windows in Outlook with Word Email Editor

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Bruce

Hi everyone.
I am working in VB 6, Outlook 2003 (Office 2003). I have an Outlook COM
addin which I am troubleshooting when working with Word as the Email Editor.

I create a new commandbar and buttons using the Outlook Inspector.
That commandbar is actually running in Word's process. Clicking a button
here runs a process in my addin; any popup generated by my addin is running
in Outlook's process. The result is that message boxes appear behind the
Word document (Outlook Inspector) instead of in front of it.

Another example is when calling Outlook PickFolder from the Word-hosted
commandbar, a very unintuitive task-switch occurs, wherein the Outlook
Explorer moves to the front of the ZOrder, then displays the PickFolder
dialog -- the "active inspector" is sent to the background.

Ok.

What I'm looking for is some general (or specific) guidance on how to
approach this issue generally. I have a very nice application which is
spendid in Outlook without Word...but it must ably accommodate those who
choose Word as the editor.

Any pointers ? I would like to implement a robust solution.

Thanks so much for your time and interest.

Bruce
 

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