using the outlook view control ocx

[RyanDawson]

I'm trying to use the Outlook View Control COM but I seem to have things set up wrong and I can't figure out how.

When I place the control on my window I see a brief glimpse of something in my Outlook. But when I run the program I get:

Error occurred while accessing component property/method: SaveControls.
Unspecified error
Error code: 0x80004005 adeshar/_contbin.p (5890)

Followed by:

Error occurred while accessing component property/method: LoadControls.
Catastrophic failure
Error code: 0x8000ffff control_load C:\dlc9-wrk\p14218_woutlookinterface.ab (5890)


(The program is w-outlookinterface.w and is in dlc9-wrk.)

The window then appears but the outlook viewer doesn't appear in it. Any ideas?

 

[dayv2005]

How are you initializing this/? or are you just droping the ocx on the screen and it supposed to work from that?

 

[RyanDawson]

Ooooo, that will be it. :blush: What do I need to do to initialise it?

 

[dayv2005]

first off let me ask you this? Are you trying to integrate your application with outlook? or do you want something similar to outlook with no ties to it. I can't remember correctly but we were integrating outlook with our apps and i was under the wrong understanding that Outlook View Control did that. It don't if it's the one im thinking about.

If thats what you want i'll see what i can do.

if that isn't i wrote a mostly 4gl with mscal.ocx appointment task and notes screen which is still in it's early stages of devlopment but depends on what you want

 

[RyanDawson]

Oh. So if the outlook view control doesn't integrate with outlook, what exactly does it do?

 

[dayv2005]

I guess it's just a activities/task screen where it store the info added through that control. It's called outlook view control just because it looks similar to the outlook view of these items.

I was about to buy it and stuff and it turned out that it wasn't what i was looking for. I'm pretty sure we are talking about the same control, but there could be a possibility that im wrong. You may want to double check.

 

[dayv2005]

did you ever get this to work? If so was it really integrated with outlook or did it just have and outlook GUI to it?

I was curious about this awhile ago but didn't want to pay for it if it wasn't what we needed

 

[RyanDawson]

This is the Microsoft Outlook View Control that we're talking about? OUTLCTL.DLL?

No, I've not got it working. It's not a priority for me, it would just be handy if I could get it going. Hence I've not spent much time on it, mostly for fear that the time might end up being wasted if I can't get it going.

 

[dayv2005]

This is the Microsoft Outlook View Control that we're talking about? OUTLCTL.DLL?

No, I've not got it working. It's not a priority for me, it would just be handy if I could get it going. Hence I've not spent much time on it, mostly for fear that the time might end up being wasted if I can't get it going.

maybe that isn't the one i thought it was hmm i might have to look into this one.