NotesDem.exe Reads and Writes the Contacts NOTES Field (190972)

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NotesDem.exe

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The property ID of the NOTES field is 0x170041. It contains binary data in the RichInk control format. There is an article "\Windows CE Platform SDK\Support\RichInk\RichInk.doc" that describes how to use the RichInk control.

Reading the NOTES field is not very difficult. The following code taken from NotesDemo.exe shows how you could read the field into a RichInk control:

   HANDLE h_contact;
   CEPROPVAL* propval;
   WORD  propsrecv = 1;
   CEPROPID ceprops[] = {0x170041};
   DWORD buflen = 0;
   PEGOID id = GetAddressCardOid(m_CardIndex);
   DWORD index;

   h_contact=CeOpenDatabase(&contactsid,_T("Contacts Database"),0,0,NULL);
   CeSeekDatabase(h_contact,CEDB_SEEK_CEOID,id,&index);

   if(!CeReadRecordProps(h_contact,CEDB_ALLOWREALLOC,&propsrecv,
                         ceprops,(unsigne d char**)&propval,&buflen))
   {
      MessageBox(_T(" Failed to read data! "));
   }

   ::SendMessage(m_hRichInkCtrl,IM_CLEARALL,0,0);
   ::SendMessage(m_hRichInkCtrl,IM_SETDATA,
                 (WPARAM)propval->val.blob.dwCount,
                 (LPARAM)propval->val.blob.lpb);
   CloseHandle(h_contact);
				

The NotesDem.exe sample also demonstrates how to write to the NOTES field.

NOTE: RichInk.h includes the calerror.h file. This file was not distributed with the Windows CE Toolkit for Visual C++ 5.0. This include can be commented out for the build. This control does not exist for the x86 emulation mode.