Hi guy, > I'll be using COM, and I could probably make an application that > controls Outlook (externally). But I'd also like to have this > functionality exposed in OL itself. So I guess I'll need to use VBA, > but I don't really like VBA - relax, please, it's just an opinion.. ;) > > So, ideally, I'd like to program as much as possible in python (I'm > pretty new to that, too, btw), and only use VBA if needed - say, to > call python objects/methods (+ wxGUI, please). You could try to do an addin/addon for Word, Excel, and Outlook. You don't need to code with VBA. Here you just need a language from where you can access the microsoft interop assemblies (ie: C++ or C#; IronPython maybe?)
I'm now working in an addon for Visio, but I'm not using python. I'm using C#. The main idea is that we have an exe application, which creates a COM object, with the first running instance of visio (if some is found). Then, I use a class (event handler) to catch some events comming from visio (this is in part documented at the msdn). I even embebbed a windows form in Visio (it was an example in the sdk). So, I think in theory, you could do the same with python. I have heard you can somehow create COM objects there. You could also try the new version of python for net: IronPython. I guess you can from there access all the assemblies to interact with office: Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel, Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word, and Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook A good start is to see the SDK documentation of each office product you need at each developer center in www.msdn.microsoft.com Good luck, Josef -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
