Re: Automatic Build Tool cont'd

Thanks for your in-depth reply Vincent,

Im sure I will make more use of your newsgroup whilst continuing my trial.

Alex

"Vincent Parrett (VSoft Technologies)" <vincent@.nospam.finalbuilder.com>
wrote in message news:43d45006$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> "Al Vas" <nogo@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:43d33992@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> One of my most time-consuming tasks is notifying current clients of
>> impending release of software. Whilst both have email sending
>> capabilities, it appears that FB4 requires that you enter each email
>> individually (ie doesnt seem to be a capability to import a contact list,
>> an Outlook contact list for example). Is this correct?
>
> You can easily grab contacts from an Outlook group using some VBScript. On
> the Project Menu, select Project Global Script and then in the script
> editor, past the following :
>
> '----------------------------------------------------
> Function FindDistributionList(strName)
> Const olFolderContacts = 10
> Dim myOlApp
> Dim myNameSpace
> Dim i
> dim myDL
>
> Set FindDistributionList = nothing
> Set myOlApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
> Set myNameSpace = myOlApp.Application.GetNamespace("MAPI")
> set contactsFolder = myNameSpace.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderContacts)
> 'Go through all the distribution lists in the folder
> For i = 1 To contactsFolder.Items.Count
> If TypeName(contactsFolder.Items.Item(I)) = "DistListItem" Then
> Set MyDl = contactsFolder.Items(I)
> if contactsFolder.Items(i).DLName = strName then
> set FindDistributionList = contactsFolder.Items(i)
> exit for
> end if
> end if
> next
> End Function
> '----------------------------------------------------
>
> then in the BeforeAction script event of the SMTP action you can do
> something like this :
>
> dim i
> dim MyDL
> dim DLMember
> 'Clear the existing list if you want.
> Action.RecipientsList.Clear
> Set MyDL = FindDistributionList("My Group Name")
> if not (MyDL is nothing) then
> For i = 1 To MyDl.MemberCount
> Set DLMember = MyDl.GetMember(i)
> if DLMember.Address <> "" then
> Action.RecipientsList.Add DLMember.Name, DLMember.Address
> end if
> next
> else
> MsgBox "Didn't find the group!"
> end if
>
> Also, you can load email recipients from a file (each address on a new
> line) with one line of VBScript, e.g :
>
> Action.RecipientsList.AddFromFile "C:\temp\email.txt"
>
> or from a delimited list (you can specify the delimeter) :
>
> Action.RecipientsList.AddDelimitedList
> "joe@xxxxxxxxxx,mike@xxxxxxxxxx",","
> (you can also substitute FB variables here too)
>
>> Also, from what I can see FB4 doesnt have a Pascal-based script, only
>> Java or VBScript. Being a dedicated Delphi development environment, this
>> would also be important for us. Is there maybe a plugin of some sort?
>
> No, we spent some time evaluating which scripting languages to support.
> The components/library we based out scripting support on does support a
> Delphi Script, however we felt that it was not a good language for
> scripting (not wanting to get into debate about the merits of different
> languages here), and because most scripting examples out there are in
> either VBScript and JavaScript we settled on those two languages. Also,
> since the vendor of the library long ago stopped supporting their product
> we probably won't be adding delphiscript support, we have already made
> many modifications to the scripting library to resolve memory leaks and
> bugs and don't wish to deal with an unsupported script interpreter
> (VBScript & JScript are provided by microsoft).
>
> The above script was cobbled together in a few minutes with a quick search
> for examples on google (copy & paste.... no converting to the equive
> delphi script needed).
>
> BTW, we have a very active support newsgroup at
> news://news.finalbuilder.com or http://news.finalbuilder.com , or you can
> contact us at support at finalbuilder dot com if you need further support
> during or after your evaluation.
>
> HTH
>
> --
> Regards
>
> Vincent Parrett
> VSoft Technologies
> http://www.finalbuilder.com
> Blogs : http://blogs.finalbuilder.com
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