NPP Sample: Demonstrates the Windows Messaging API (MAPI)

The NPP sample is a single-document interface (SDI) application similar to Notepad that allows you to edit text messages and send them to other users or other systems through the Windows messaging API, or MAPI.

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Building and Running the Sample

To build and run the NPP sample

1. Open the solution NPP.sln.

2. On the Build menu, click Build.

3. On the Debug menu, click Start Without Debugging.

The File menu has a Send command that can attach the content of the edit window to a MAPI message. Selecting Send will prompt you for a user name and password to start your MAPI session if you are not already logged on.

The two important lines of code that enable this feature (aside from adding the menu choice itself to the resource file) are entries in the message map for the CNotepadDocinstance, which the application maintains. The entries are:

ON_COMMAND(ID_FILE_SEND_MAIL, OnFileSendMail)
ON_UPDATE_COMMAND_UI(ID_FILE_SEND_MAIL, OnUpdateFileSendMail)

CDocument::OnFileSendMail and CDocument::OnUpdateFileSendMail are built into MFC; nothing extra is needed to gain this level of MAPI support in your applications.

Keywords

This sample demonstrates the following keywords:

AfxGetMainWnd; AfxMessageBox; CComboBox::Copy; CComboBox::Create; CComboBox::GetDroppedState; CComboBox::Paste; CComboBox::SetEditSel; CComboBox::ShowDropDown; CDC::GetTextExtent; CDC::GetTextMetrics; CDC::SelectObject; CDialog::DoModal; CDialog::OnCancel; CDialog::OnInitDialog; CDocument::OnNewDocument; CEdit::GetLineCount; CEdit::LineFromChar; CEdit::LineIndex; CEdit::LineScroll; CEdit::SetSel; CEditView::GetEditCtrl; CEditView::GetSelectedText; CEditView::OnFindNext; CFrameWnd::Create; CFrameWnd::DockControlBar; CFrameWnd::EnableDocking; CFrameWnd::GetActiveView; CFrameWnd::RecalcLayout; CObject::AssertValid; CObject::Dump; CObject::Serialize; CRect::Height; CStatusBar::CommandToIndex; CStatusBar::SetPaneText; CString::Format; CString::GetLength; CString::LoadString; CToolBar::GetItemRect; CToolBar::SetButtonInfo; CView::GetDocument; CView::OnBeginPrinting; CView::OnDraw; CView::OnEndPrinting; CView::OnPreparePrinting; CWinApp::AddDocTemplate; CWinApp::InitInstance; CWinApp::LoadStdProfileSettings; CWinApp::OnFileNew; CWinApp::OnIdle; CWinApp::OpenDocumentFile; CWnd::Create; CWnd::DoDataExchange; CWnd::FromHandle; CWnd::GetDescendantWindow; CWnd::GetDlgItem; CWnd::GetFocus; CWnd::GetStyle; CWnd::GetWindowRect; CWnd::GetWindowText; CWnd::GetWindowTextLength; CWnd::KillTimer; CWnd::OnClose; CWnd::OnCreate; CWnd::PostMessage; CWnd::PreTranslateMessage; CWnd::ScreenToClient; CWnd::SendMessage; CWnd::SetFocus; CWnd::SetFont; CWnd::SetTimer; CWnd::SetWindowPos; CWnd::SetWindowText; CWnd::ShowWindow; CreateFontIndirect; DragAcceptFiles; EndDialog; EnumFontFamilies; GetDlgItem; GetKeyState; GetLocalTime; GetStockObject; LoadBitmap; MessageBeep; SendMessage; SetWindowText; memcpy

See Also

Other Resources

MFC Samples