Outlook 2003 Plugin not receiving resize events

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Michael Fox

I have an outlook 2003 plugin that I am developing in C# using VSTO in

Visual Studio 2008, and I am having some trouble with resizing when

using Word 2003 as the composer.

The Plugin adds an extra panel to the bottom of the compose window

(shrinking the main compose window slightly.) The extra panel contains

a Rich text box and a few other controls.

The issue is that the extra panel is not receiving resize events from

the compose window. I have used the NativeWindow class in C# to get

access to the message queue in the parent window (to intercept resize

events) but am not receiving any events. Upon closer inspection, this

appears to be because the Word2003 composer window is in a different

process than my extra panel. (The Panel is created by the plugin

running in Outlook, and the Word2003 compose window is an instance of

Word that runs in a separate process.) Not receiving messages from

windows in another process is a known limitation of the NativeWindow

class.

So my question is: Is there a way to receive the resize events from the

Word 2003 compose window? My resizing code works correctly to position

and size my extra panel, the issue is that it is not being triggered by

resize events.

Michael Fox
 
If it could be done at all it would be by using Win32 API message hooks on

that window and intercepting all messages directed at that window. You'd

probably get better information and help in a Win32 API group or something

like that.

"Michael Fox" <Michael.Fox.4f468be@outlookbanter.com> wrote in message

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> I have an outlook 2003 plugin that I am developing in C# using VSTO in
> Visual Studio 2008, and I am having some trouble with resizing when
> using Word 2003 as the composer.

> The Plugin adds an extra panel to the bottom of the compose window
> (shrinking the main compose window slightly.) The extra panel contains
> a Rich text box and a few other controls.

> The issue is that the extra panel is not receiving resize events from
> the compose window. I have used the NativeWindow class in C# to get
> access to the message queue in the parent window (to intercept resize
> events) but am not receiving any events. Upon closer inspection, this
> appears to be because the Word2003 composer window is in a different
> process than my extra panel. (The Panel is created by the plugin
> running in Outlook, and the Word2003 compose window is an instance of
> Word that runs in a separate process.) Not receiving messages from
> windows in another process is a known limitation of the NativeWindow
> class.

> So my question is: Is there a way to receive the resize events from the
> Word 2003 compose window? My resizing code works correctly to position
> and size my extra panel, the issue is that it is not being triggered by
> resize events.

> > Michael Fox
 
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