using an already running COM object with Dispatch

[jiccab]

Greetings.

with the following code,

olApp = Dispatch("Outlook.Application")

I am capable of getting a new instance of Outlook running. I would
like to be able to use the instance that is already running, if exists,
otherwise open a new one.

Has anyone being able to do this?

[Roger Upole]

"jiccab" <ji****@gmail.comwrote in message news:11**********************@75g2000cwc.googlegro ups.com...

Greetings.

with the following code,

olApp = Dispatch("Outlook.Application")

I am capable of getting a new instance of Outlook running. I would
like to be able to use the instance that is already running, if exists,
otherwise open a new one.

Has anyone being able to do this?

You should be able to use
win32com.client.GetActiveObject('outlook.applicati on')
and fall back to a normal Dispatch if it fails.

Roger

[jiccab]

Roger Upole wrote:

"jiccab" <ji****@gmail.comwrote in message news:11**********************@75g2000cwc.googlegro ups.com...

Greetings.

with the following code,

olApp = Dispatch("Outlook.Application")

I am capable of getting a new instance of Outlook running. I would
like to be able to use the instance that is already running, if exists,
otherwise open a new one.

Has anyone being able to do this?

You should be able to use
win32com.client.GetActiveObject('outlook.applicati on')
and fall back to a normal Dispatch if it fails.

Roger

Yes indeed. Thanks. here is the code:

from win32com.client.dynamic import Dispatch
from win32com.client import GetActiveObject

def OutlookPointer():
try:
olApp = GetActiveObject("Outlook.Application")
except:
olApp = Dispatch("Outlook.Application")
return olApp

op = OutlookPointer()