Custom Properties for None WORD documents

[Guest]

Hi

For my application I have created a new document extension called .HST.
This extension is assocaited with WORD. For normal word and TXt documents I
am adding Custom Properties automatically using CustomDocumentProperties.Add

This works fine. However as part of my application I store all sorts of
documents types as .HST files. These include .MSG's and JPEG's etc. To these
I cannot add Custom Properties. I open the .HST files using somthing like
xDoc = xAppocuments:Open ( P-FILE-NAME ) anf then add the properties. I
know this works because I can message them out immeadiately. However when I
try to SAVE the document using xAppocuments:Save() I get errors because
the contents of the .HST file are effectively .MSG or .JPEG etc and WORD
wants to convert them. If i was to open the document in WORD manually and
press save I would get the same problem.

If I right click on the .HST I can add CUSTOM Properties manually so why can
I not do it automatically.

Is there an API I need to call to add custom propeties rather than opening
them as a WORD object. Or is there a way I can save the documents without
getting the errors.

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?TmljayBDaGlsZA==?=,

There are internal properties (Office custom properties), and then there are
properties available through the Windows environment. That's most likely what
you're seeing when you right-click a file. The Office properties are designed to
be accessible in this manner, as well. MS supplies a tool named DSOFile(.exe)
that VB programmers can use to read and write these properties for Office files.

I believe DSOFile is a wrapper for something in the API, but I couldn't tell you
what. If your programming language is VB, then I'd start in a classic VB
newsgroup. If it's C++, then head to a group for that, and maybe search MSDN.

For my application I have created a new document extension called .HST.
This extension is assocaited with WORD. For normal word and TXt documents I
am adding Custom Properties automatically using CustomDocumentProperties.Add

This works fine. However as part of my application I store all sorts of
documents types as .HST files. These include .MSG's and JPEG's etc. To these
I cannot add Custom Properties. I open the .HST files using somthing like
xDoc = xAppocuments:Open ( P-FILE-NAME ) anf then add the properties. I
know this works because I can message them out immeadiately. However when I
try to SAVE the document using xAppocuments:Save() I get errors because
the contents of the .HST file are effectively .MSG or .JPEG etc and WORD
wants to convert them. If i was to open the document in WORD manually and
press save I would get the same problem.

If I right click on the .HST I can add CUSTOM Properties manually so why can
I not do it automatically.

Is there an API I need to call to add custom propeties rather than opening
them as a WORD object. Or is there a way I can save the documents without
getting the errors.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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