Hi

I developed a COM-Addin in Outlook 2000 that sets the value of  a user-defined field in a custom email form in the inbox item_add event ie. when the email arrives

In  the custom form itself, in the Item_Read event, I have vbscript code that reads the value of this custom field set by add-in, and formats some labels in the read form (bold etc..) accordingly

The problem I am having is that the first time the message is opened by the user, the formatting logic in the form code doesn't execute properly. However, on subsequent openings it works fine.

In my  testing I have come to the conclude that since the Item_Read event is triggered when a message arrives, and not just when selected or opened, at this point the add-in hasn't yet had time to do its job (set the custom value), thus causing the form code to read nothing in the  custom fields value. But when opening the form a second and subsequent times, the value is there and code is executed correcly

My question is, is there a way around  this?  My understanding is that I cannot do the label formatting in the add-in itself because Outlook will refer to the published forms definition when opening the form, tus it won't be  permanent formatting  for each email

Or is it simply how Outlook works and thats it?  Hope I was clear

Thanks

Selgin