Outlook 2003 create appointment

[cookiemonster]

Just wondered if anyone out there has created a script to product an appointment in outlook that I could look at to try and assistant an idea of something I would like to make

[water]

Please have a look at my OutlookEX UDF (for download please see my signature). Function _OL_ItemCreate should do what you want. Check the _OL_ItemCreate.au3 example file as well.

[cookiemonster]

Now go to a point where im stuck as its not reading the data from the combo box for the start time.

Ive got this for my combo box for start time:

$starttimeinput = GUICtrlCreateCombo("", 288, 72, 121, 25, BitOR($CBS_DROPDOWN,$CBS_AUTOHSCROLL))
$starttimeinput = GUICtrlSetData(-1, "09:00|09:30|10:00|10:30|11:00|11:30|12:00|12:30|13:00|13:30|14:00|14:30|15:00|15:30|16:00|16:30")

and then ive got this that reads the date and changes the format (works fine) but it wont read the time from the combo box

$date = GUICtrlRead($dateinput)
$timestart = GUICtrlRead($starttimeinput)
$date2 = StringSplit($date,"/")
$datetime = $date2[3] & "-" & $date2[2] & "-" & StringRight($date2[1] & " " & $timestart,4)
MsgBox(0,"",$date & @crlf & $datetime & @crlf & $timestart)

But it just returns a 0 rather than the selected data in combo box, eg: 12:00

Any ideas?

[water]

Modify line

$starttimeinput = GUICtrlSetData(-1, "09:00|09:30|10:00|10:30|11:00|11:30|12:00|12:30|13:00|13:30|14:00|14:30|15:00|15:30|16:00|16:30")

to

GUICtrlSetData(-1, "09:00|09:30|10:00|10:30|11:00|11:30|12:00|12:30|13:00|13:30|14:00|14:30|15:00|15:30|16:00|16:30")

If you check the help file you will see that GUICtrlSetData returns 0!

Edited April 21, 2013 by water

[cookiemonster]

oh i thought i needed the variable at the start? so removing that bit should sort this issue out? Cheers man

[water]

Yes, this should solve the problem.

After GUICtrlCreateCombo $starttimeinput holds the Id of the control. After GUICtrlSetData $starttimeinput holds the return value (= 0). When you then do the GUICtrlRead($starttimeinput) you read the wrong control.

[cookiemonster]

Many thanks for explaining that, yes it did work, but even better thanks to your explanation i understand why it didn't work before and why it now works cheers!

[water]

[cookiemonster]

Water,

My script is now completly built and works perfectly to the way I wanted to.

Now I see theirs the Warnings script so I dont need to click yes when outlook says an external program is trying to access outlook.

Now I usually have outlook open and running all the time, ive gone into the warning script and the func says this after adding my bits:

Func _OL_Open($bWarningClick = True, $sWarningProgram = "C:\Documents and Settings\james.q\Desktop\_OL_Warnings.au3", $iWinCheckTime = 1000, $iCtrlCheckTime = 1000, $sProfileName = "", $sPassword = "")

However im getting 'Error creating a connection to Outlook. @error = 5, @extended = 0'

Struggling to identify the problem, any ideas? (seen as youve been a star helping so far!)

[cookiemonster]

And can the warning program be built into the one exe or does this need to be a separate exe?

[water]

You only need to pass the parameters, not the names:

_OL_Open(True, "C:\Documents and Settings\james.q\Desktop\_OL_Warnings.exe", 1000, 1000, "", "")

Edited April 22, 2013 by water

[water]

And can the warning program be built into the one exe or does this need to be a separate exe?

Needs to be compiled to a sparate exe which then is called by _OL_Open.

[cookiemonster]

could I not incorporate the warning function into my script so its all one exe? and just have it call that function at the right time?

[cookiemonster]

infact that doesnt really matter, I could just chuck the warning exe into outlooks main program files folder so its out the way, then point it to that place

[cookiemonster]

I changed it to

_OL_Open(True, "C:\Documents and Settings\james.q\Desktop\_OL_Warnings.exe", 1000, 1000, "", "")

But now im getting 'badly formatted "Func" statement'

Any ideas?

This is in the OutlookEX.au3 file that im changing it

Edited April 22, 2013 by quinnj09

[water]

could I not incorporate the warning function into my script so its all one exe? and just have it call that function at the right time?

It could be incorporated in the main script by using AdLibRegister. But I never found the time and there was no need from the users to modify the UDF.

[water]

I changed it to

_OL_Open(True, "C:\Documents and Settings\james.q\Desktop\_OL_Warnings.exe", 1000, 1000, "", "")

But now im getting 'badly formatted "Func" statement'

Any ideas?

This is in the OutlookEX.au3 file that im changing it

There is absolute NO need to modify OutlookEX.au3!

You have to modify the call of _OL_Open in YOUR script!

[water]

Or you could use FileInstall and add the Warning Exe to your script Exe.

[cookiemonster]

It could be incorporated in the main script by using AdLibRegister. But I never found the time and there was no need from the users to modify the UDF.

What would be the difference on doing AdLibReigster instead of Call?

There is absolute NO need to modify OutlookEX.au3!

You have to modify the call of _OL_Open in YOUR script!

Appolgise didnt realise that, so i reverted back to an original copy of outlookex, and used

$oOutlook = _OL_Open(True, "C:\Documents and Settings\james.q\My Documents\Autoit Files\UpgradeBooker\_OL_Warnings.exe", 1000, 1000, "", "")

However im now getting 'Error creating a connection to Outlook. @error = 6, @extended = 1'

Am i right from reading the OutlookEX that this error means:

|6 - Run error when running $sWarningProgram. Please check @extended for more information

|1 - Outlook was already up and running. When using _OL_Open you have to set parameter $bForceClose to True to stop the Outlook process (optional)

but im a bit lost on where I set $bForceClose to true?

Cheers!

[water]

With AdLibRegister you can start a function every x milliseconds (doesn't matter which statement of your script is currently being executed).