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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


> -----Original Message----- > From: [rebol-bounce--rebol--com] [mailto:[rebol-bounce--rebol--com]]
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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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