if rebol could interact with outlook?
[1/7] from: bry::itnisk::com at: 19-Dec-2002 9:49
Here's a question, if rebol could interact with outlook and vice-versa,
meaning that you could start rebol from within outlook, or start outlook
from within Rebol what would people want it to be able to do?
[2/7] from: mat:plothatching at: 19-Dec-2002 11:57
Hi bryan,
bryan> Here's a question, if rebol could interact with outlook and vice-versa,
bryan> meaning that you could start rebol from within outlook, or start outlook
bryan> from within Rebol what would people want it to be able to do?
Write a virus? :)
Regards,
Mat.
[3/7] from: robert:muench:robertmuench at: 19-Dec-2002 14:19
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> outlook, or start outlook from within Rebol what would people
> want it to be able to do?
Hi, IMO the possibility to start each other won't be that much essentail
but what would be nice is to access OL from Rebol. Using the DLL
interface of /Pro it would be possible to write a DLL that connects to
OL and can be used via a dialect... With this you could access the
folders of OL, import and export data etc. It might even be possible to
write a complete different front-end of OL. Robert
[4/7] from: bry:itnisk at: 19-Dec-2002 15:29
Robert Muench wrote
>Hi, IMO the possibility to start each other won't be that much
essentail
>but what would be nice is to access OL from Rebol. Using the DLL
>interface of /Pro it would be possible to write a DLL that connects to
>OL and can be used via a dialect... With this you could access the
>folders of OL, import and export data etc. It might even be possible to
>write a complete different front-end of OL
I don't know if I want to spend a lot of time with the DLL interface :)
I sort of figured what I would do is all browse/protocols, although this
might not always be the most beautiful way.
In the earlier discussion of a reb: protocol it was detailed how using
the asynchronous pluggable protocols one could call rebol and load in a
particular script with such a protocol.
Once such an asynch Protocol is running on a machine it can be called
via the normal ways of calling a protocol, for example in a link.
I was thinking it might be a cool project to make some simple outlook
views that allowed one to pass info from outlook to rebol, I'm not going
to make a gigantic application as the time constraints my job imposes
won't let me but I thought I'd make some examples so that others who
might not be knowledgeable in these fields could hopefully carry it on,
thereby allowing me to reap the benefit of everyone's hard work ;).
Figured I'd do this over the Christmas holidays. Also thought it might
be cool to build some samples for interacting with various folders in
Outlook, I figure to do this, instead of wrapping the dll I'd use the
command line to call a wscript to tell me about what I had to work with
and from there let rebol do the work. In that way the wscript would also
be open for people to more easily see what was going on.
So would there be interest in simple stuff like, tell rebol from outlook
that your next calendar appointment in the outlook calendar is January
03, 2003? Just an example.
Or open outlook to the calendar from rebol?
[5/7] from: yeksoon:myrealbox at: 19-Dec-2002 22:28
At 09:49 AM 12/19/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>Here's a question, if rebol could interact with outlook and vice-versa,
>meaning that you could start rebol from within outlook, or start outlook
>from within Rebol what would people want it to be able to do?
>
To take a step further, if IOS is to interact with Outlook, the picture of
it being an entreprise collaboration platform will be more complete.
YekSoon
[6/7] from: ammon:addept:ws at: 19-Dec-2002 13:06
Hi,
Why *must* we interact with virus ware to be an enterprise app? I would
much prefer to use the REBOL base RebMail that is semi-complete right now
instead. ;-0
Enjoy!
Ammon Johnson --- CIO
Addept ------------------ (www.addept.ws)
435-616-2322 -------- (ammon at addept.ws)
[7/7] from: gerardcote:sympatico:ca at: 21-Dec-2002 18:05
Hi Bryan,
For me the opportunity you are offering to us makes all of a sense to have this kind
of tool.
In fact last week I discovered a book from the A+ press giving much about how to use
the Windows Scripting Host engine with other MS
Office tools and to external non MS ressources too.
So since I didn't go further in my study for the moment, your work could be a nice addition
to help us discover what is available to
be used in this way. I prefer you to test this WS behaviour than using the many existing
DLLs from the API, like you said earlier.
Thanks for experimenting this way and sharing with us what you'll eventually discover.
I must admit that I have all to discover in this huge Windows development area except
for the generalities I am currently able to
talk about ... but not much more doing for the moment!
Regards,
Gerard
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