Word as Email Editor / Hiding on new mail

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Word as Email Editor / Hiding on new mail
Issues/questions regarding sending of new mail 
Richard Stevens


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I've created an Inspector form in Outlook which appears on the right hand side of all email messages when they're opened.

However, I'd like it not to be visble when a user is creating new email messages. I've tried various ways but with no success.

As a related issue, when a new email is created, quite often the message area does not display correctly, it looks like it's not refreshing properly as it contains images/text from elsewhere on the desktop. If I turn off Word as my email editor (Word 2003) it doesn't happen. I can supply a screenshot if required.

Of course if I can solve the first problem the second problem may go away... but it would be nice to have a solution to both?

Richard
Posted 28 Nov, 2006 07:42:14 Top
Fedor Shihantsov


Guest


Hello Richard,

As to new email, use the adxOlFormsManager.ADXNewInspector event in the following way: 

procedure TAddInModule.adxOlFormsManager1ADXNewInspector(ASender: TObject;
  Inspector: _Inspector);
var
  mail: MailItem;
  IsNewMail: boolean;
begin
  Inspector.CurrentItem.QueryInterface(IID__MailItem, mail);
  if (mail <> nil) then begin
    adxOlFormsManager1.LockUpdates;//prevent delete cached forms
    try
      IsNewMail := mail.Subject = '';
      if IsNewMail then begin
        adxOlFormsManager1.Items[0].Enabled := false;
      end
      else begin
        adxOlFormsManager1.Items[0].Enabled := true;
      end;
    finally
      adxOlFormsManager1.UnlockUpdates;
    end;
  end;
end;


As to message area refreshing, could you please create a test project with the same behavior and send it to the support email. And the screenshot, please.
Posted 28 Nov, 2006 12:15:59 Top
Richard Stevens


Guest


Thank you. That works very well for new emails. Could I trouble you for something similar that allows me to detect if an email is a reply? And for replies I don't want to disable the form/pane, I just want to tell it to adjust its display slightly so as to be less intrusive. So I imagine the code will need to be on the form itself?

Richard
Posted 29 Nov, 2006 06:44:37 Top
Fedor Shihantsov


Guest


See the LastModificationTime property.
For new emails mail.LastModificationTime = 0.
For reply email subject contains 'RE:' and LastModificationTime is zero.

>So I imagine the code will need to be on the form itself?
You can change the size in the AdxOlForm.ADXBeforeFormShow event.
Posted 29 Nov, 2006 12:45:38 Top
Richard Stevens


Guest


In case anybody else encounters this:

"As a related issue, when a new email is created, quite often the message area does not display correctly, it looks like it's not refreshing properly as it contains images/text from elsewhere on the desktop. If I turn off Word as my email editor (Word 2003) it doesn't happen. "

It looks like it may have been fixed by downloading the Service Pack update to Office 2003 - I'll post again if the problem comes back.

Richard
Posted 03 Dec, 2006 09:00:47 Top