1. Intermediate Programming with GroupWise® C3POs™
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Intermediate Programming with GroupWise® C3POs™
Glade Monson
Software Engineer
Novell, Inc.
DCB211—Intermediate Programming with GroupWise C3POs

2. Vision…one Net Mission
A world where networks of all types—corporate and public, intranets, extranets, and the Internet—work together as one Net and securely connect employees, customers, suppliers, and partners across organizational boundaries
Mission
To solve complex business and technical challenges with Net business solutions that enable people, processes, and systems to work together and our customers to profit from the opportunities of a networked world

4. Overview What is a C3PO™? What can a C3PO do for you?
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Overview
What is a C3PO™?
What can a C3PO do for you?
The GroupWise® C3PO Wizard
C3PO logic flow
Let’s create some C3POs
Questions and answers
DCB211—Intermediate Programming with GroupWise C3POs

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What Is a C3PO?
A C3PO is an OLE COM object used to extend the GroupWise 5 environment
DCB211—Intermediate Programming with GroupWise C3POs

6. What Is a C3PO? (cont.) Defines and uses custom message object classes
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What Is a C3PO? (cont.)
Defines and uses custom message object classes
Uses Windows system registry to identify it to GroupWise environment
DCB211—Intermediate Programming with GroupWise C3POs

7. What Is a C3PO? (cont.) You can develop a C3PO by using Visual Basic
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What Is a C3PO? (cont.)
You can develop a C3PO by using
Visual Basic
Delphi
C++ using COM
Any other development application that supports automation via COM
DCB211—Intermediate Programming with GroupWise C3POs

8. Overview What is a C3PO? What can a C3PO do for you?
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Overview
What is a C3PO?
What can a C3PO do for you?
The GroupWise C3PO Wizard
C3PO logic flow
Let’s create some C3POs
Questions and answers
DCB211—Intermediate Programming with GroupWise C3POs

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What Can a C3PO Do for You?
Integrates your application into the GroupWise client by allowing
Interface modification of menus and toolbars
Trapping of events and commands
Customized message objects
Access to GroupWise client state
DCB211—Intermediate Programming with GroupWise C3POs

10. Overview What is a C3PO? What can a C3PO do for you?
Novell BrainShare 2002
Overview
What is a C3PO?
What can a C3PO do for you?
The GroupWise C3PO Wizard
C3PO logic flow
Let’s create some C3POs
Questions and answers
DCB211—Intermediate Programming with GroupWise C3POs

11. The GroupWise C3PO Wizard
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The GroupWise C3PO Wizard
Builds a C3PO that will
Create a custom message type with custom icons
Add menus and menu items
Add buttons to the toolbar
Trap predefined commands
Catch GroupWise events
Highlight where you need to put your code
DCB211—Intermediate Programming with GroupWise C3POs

12. The GroupWise C3PO Wizard (cont.)
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The GroupWise C3PO Wizard (cont.)
Builds a C3PO using contexts
GW.MESSAGE.XXX
Six choices
GW.CLIENT.WINDOW.XXX
Eight choices (three new)
DCB211—Intermediate Programming with GroupWise C3POs

13. The GroupWise C3PO Wizard (cont.)
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The GroupWise C3PO Wizard (cont.)
Builds a C3PO in
Visual Basic
Delphi
C++
DCB211—Intermediate Programming with GroupWise C3POs

14. Overview What is a C3PO? What can a C3PO do for you?
Novell BrainShare 2002
Overview
What is a C3PO?
What can a C3PO do for you?
The GroupWise C3PO Wizard
C3PO logic flow
Let’s create some C3POs
Questions and answers
DCB211—Intermediate Programming with GroupWise C3POs

15. C3PO Logic Flow Menus Context menus Toolbar buttons Initialize
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C3PO Logic Flow
Initialize
Validate
Customize
Execute
Menus
Context menus
Toolbar buttons
DCB211—Intermediate Programming with GroupWise C3POs

16. C3PO Logic Flow (cont.) GroupWise commands GroupWise events
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C3PO Logic Flow (cont.)
GroupWise commands
GroupWise events
Want command
Notify
Build command
Execute
DCB211—Intermediate Programming with GroupWise C3POs

17. Overview What is a C3PO? What can a C3PO do for you?
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Overview
What is a C3PO?
What can a C3PO do for you?
The GroupWise C3PO Wizard
C3PO logic flow
Let’s create some C3POs
Questions and answers
DCB211—Intermediate Programming with GroupWise C3POs

18. Let’s Create Some C3POs The wizard makes it easy
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Let’s Create Some C3POs
The wizard makes it easy
DCB211—Intermediate Programming with GroupWise C3POs