Re: game design

From: jonmmorris@aol.comnospam (JonMMorris)

Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 00:00:00 +0000

I wouldn't touch Outlook with a ten foot pole but you should be able to access
Outlook e-mails with calls from a Visual Basic program (and probably Visual C++
too).

You will need network authorizations for your program to prowl through the
e-mail server.  If you have an in with the sys admin then you're okay.  If you
are using an ISP, they will most likely tell you to drop dead (politely) - your
program is difficult to distinguish from a hacker's attack and they have little
reason to trust you not to launch a Melissa into their system.

An alternate strategy would be to post some forms on a website.  Using
server-side scripting (VBscript, JavaScript, Perl, etc.), you could dump the
contents into a database.  You can FTP the whole DB for local manipulation or
just write some scripts to query it at your ISP.

Best of luck.
John

Grenade boy wrote:
>>>For now, I am happy trying to figure out how my game will work on a
conceptual basis. The question that has me puzzled right now is this:
how can I download messages from Outlook and place them into a specific
folder? Can anyone recommend a utility that does this? Also, when I
process orders, should I read through each individual email, or should
I go through each email and combine those emails into a 'master order
list'. Example of master order list:

BEGIN
Player #3434
...
...
...
END
BEGIN
Player# 3435
...

The advantage of the master list is that I can easily scan through the
list and pick out orders based upon priority (for example, battles
orders come before move orders), and once I am through the list, I can
scan it again and again. Conceptually, it seems easier to process
orders in this manner rather than scanning many different files.

Your throughts would be appreciated.
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