access form internals

[Kovary Adam]

Hi.

In outlook 2000, via COM from delphi6:
I create a reply message based on a custom form.
I catch when the user click the 'send' button.
Before really sending the message I should somehow
to work with mail's form data.
So, how can I access a form's controls, labels,
via a COM component (practically MailItem)?

Thanks in advance,
Koadam

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

MailItem.GetInspector will get you the Inspector object that is the parent
for all UI elements. See http://www.outlookcode.com/d/propsyntax.htm#unbound

Why do you want to work with the controls anyway? Nothing you do to them
will have any effect, since UI changes are temporary and the item has
already been sent.

 

[Kovary Adam]

I need this because I hide teh original send button,
the user push my send button in the window.

My big problem is, that if I send a message from outlook
based on a form, receipient using netscape, pegasus, and
other non-ms maiul clients, will got only a winmail.dat
file.

My outlook form looks very simple, like eg.:

Name: ______________
Address: __________
Ticket request: _________
Train no.: __________


underscores are editboxes.
And I want the recipient of the mail receive this as plain text.

Name: Kovacs Bela
Address: Budapest
Ticket request: Sopron, I. class
Train no.: A-12452

That's why I thought I should preprocess the form message
before really sending.

Have you any simplier idea, how to do this?
Thank you in advance,
Koadam

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Put code in the form's Item_Send event handler to create, address and send a
new plain text message with a Body property that includes the information
you want to send. See http://www.outlookcode.com/d/propsyntax.htm if you
need help with getting the data from your custom form's properties or
controls.

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

 

[Kovary Adam]

Thanks for yuor advices.
Now I can iterate through my forms controls.
I have one more question: I have a IControl,
but how can I determine its control type?
(textbox, combobox, etc).

Thanks,
koadam

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

I don't recall finding a direct method. You could try to access properties
that are specific to one type of control or another and handle any error
that happens if the control isn't that type.

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