>>>I am running Outlook from VFP. I read John Petersen's articles in the August and September '98 issues of FoxTalk, on Outlook from Visual FoxPro. Ran into a problem when I took it out to run it on my clients system. They use Outlook with an Exchange backend. When I try to send mail from their workstation using my application, my app dies, unless Outlook is already started up.
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>>>On their workstation, when a client logs onto Outlook, a screen comes up which gives them a choice as to which account to logon to. I think this screen is killing my app, since it expects a response, and I don't even know what the objects are to respond to (plus it is on their system, and I don't have any development tools on their system).
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>>>How do I access that object, and is there any way for me to test it at my office? Thanks in advance.
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>>>Daniel
>>The way you can test it at your office is by using the GetObject() function that gets a reference of a running program. I suppose from there you may use a batch file or a fancy API call to open Outlook, or for that matter, prompt the user to launch Outlook and check for the presence of Outlook on a loop until the program gets ahold of the reference.
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>>oOL = GetObject(, "Outlook.Application")
>>If Type("oOl") <> "O" Then
>>* Outlook is not running, launch it or prompt user to do it.
>>Endif
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>>Just a tought.
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>Here's an article on Outlook and Automation Q181202
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>Here's one on exchange Q153311
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>HTH
Thanks Paul, I found the second article useful since I do program in Access (says me). However, I don't see how it addresses the problem in question.