How to cancel OnBeforeMail event

[Bengt]

I want to use an external Email component and invoke that with the Email button in the VPE previews in a Dataflex program. The external component is called in a procedure OnVpeBeforeMail. As I understand from the manual, the procedure shall return 1 to cancel the operation, but the code below doesn´t cancel it. How shall it be done?

Procedure OnVpeBeforeMail

If (FIR.SendChilkatmail='Y') Begin
Send Popup to oSendChilkatEmail
Procedure_Return 1
End
Else Begin
//internal E-mail


Bengt

[IDEAL Software Support]

I don't know how VPE is embedded into Dataflex. Assuming you are using the VPE DLL, the WIN API event handler must return this value in response to handling the VPE_BEFORE_MAIL event. Maybe the Dataflex binding is not returning the value of your procedure to the WIN API event handler. For clarification, you should consult the company which created the VPE bindings for Dataflex.

[Bengt]

I got this answer from Starzen.

The issue is actually DataFlex. It doesn’t return data to windows functions

As far as I remember you have to do the following

Set Windows_Override_State to true
Procedure_Return 1

Without setting the windows_override_state property DAW always returns a 0