[Fwd: Re: [JAWIN] Outlook 2003]

-------- Original Message --------
Subject:        Re: [JAWIN] Outlook 2003
Date:   Tue, 20 Jun 2006 17:17:44 -0700
From:   Robert Hastings <[email protected]>
To:     Discussion of Java/Win32/COM integration with Jawin
<[email protected]>
References:     <[email protected]>



jSegue has a rename option. Perhaps the jtb should have this as well.

Robert

Josh Passenger wrote:
> Hi Michel,
>
> See answers inline below:
>
>
>>
>> Thank you for your response. Too bad you haven't got experience with
>> Jawin
>> and Outlook, because I could really need some help. But well, thank you
>> all the same.
>
> no worries =]
>
>>
>> Yes, I will have a go at the stylesheets when I next feel courageous. It
>> certainly seems better than having to change the java files every time,
>> and that way perhaps others could benefit. But can I interpret your
>> reply
>> to mean that the changes I made are probably ok, except that I
>> achieved it
>> the wrong way (hacking the java, rather than the style sheets)?
>
> Yes if the type browser tries to override existing methods with a
> different
> signature in the generated code, you'll need to replace these.  The
> problem
> in this instance is that the type library itself declares a getClass
> method
> on one of its interfaces so the type browser faithfully generates one....
>
> Hacking generated code is a bandaid solution, agreed?  Editing the
> stylesheets, even locally is much prefferred.
>
>>
>> Do you know why the typebrowser won't load Office.dll?
>
> Its probably faiing to do the native side of things and should drop you a
> stack trace witht he reason.    Theres thousands of types that you
> have to
> support in a TLB and perhaps Office is using a few we don't support,
> grab a
> stack trace.
>
> Is Office.dll a type library itself?  In the older office versions, you
> loaded excel.dll or word.dll directly, they were the tlbs.  Down a type
> library explorer or try to open it in visual basic's import type library
> wizard to confiirm?
>
>>
>> About the mailing list: It tells you it will send an email you need to
>> respond to, and then I never get the email. I tried this many times,
>> with
>> 2 email addresses, and then one of my attempts did actually get me an
>> email the next day. Then you need to reply to that, and wait for another
>> email, which arrived yet another day later. And then I tried to post a
>> message to the mailing list, and it wouldn't let me, because -it
>> said- my
>> browser doesn't allow cookies. It does, and after messing with
>> cookies for
>> quite a while, I found that after all those emails, I hadn't yet
>> subscribed to the jawin mailing list. Heaven knows to what I had
>> subscribed. Then I subscribed to the jawin mailing list, and lo and
>> behold, I could actually post my question (3 days after my first
>> attempt.)
>> So it doesn't altogether surprise me that traffic on the mailing list
>> is a
>> little slow! But never mind that, I got there.
>>
>
> Strange, maybe its time we used the sourceforge mailing lists?
> Although the
> develop.com one has been stable over the years.  Maybe check out their
> faq
> on mailing lists, but it doesn't look like you did anything wrong...
>
> http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/1.8d/userindex.html
>
> Good luck,
>
> Josh
>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>
>> Michel