New Email from Word or Adobe Reader

[DataDay]

Hello,

I’ve created a COM Add-In in VB6 for Outlook 2002. It responds to the
NewInspector event and adds a new some additional functionality for when the
user is creating a new email. This functionality does not seem to appear
when the user creates a new email via Word or say Adobe reader.

Is the NewInspector event not trigger when a new email is started via an
Outside application? Is there a bit of code I need to add to make this work?
Sorry if this is not clear.

Thanks

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Your analysis is correct. Those methods of creating a new message invoke Simple MAPI, which creates the message without triggering the NewInspector event. There's no workaround that I know of.

 

[DataDay]

Wow, that is a major limitation of MS Office.

I'm pretty sure I'm beating a dead horse, but could a botton in an Inspector
somehow trigger code in a Word template?

Thanks

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Not quite. Remember, there's no Inspector in that scenario.

Buttons placed by an Exchange client extension will work, but that's a couple of orders of magnitude more complex an application.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[DataDay]

Is that the "wrapper" class that you are referring to on page 205 of your book?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

No. An Exchange client extension is a different kind of add-in built with Extended MAPI (and possibly the Outlook object model as well) and C++ or Delphi.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Mike]

Hi,
I'm having the same problem - did you manage to find a solution?

Regards

Mike Scott