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I’m writing a small app to display tasks and upcoming calendar items as a Desktop gadget; the information lives on a Domino server, and can be accessed via Notes.
Currently I use COM from C++ to access the database; what is really annoying though is that the Notes UI pops up when I instantiate either Notes.NotesSession or Notes.NotesUIWorkspace.
Is there a way to avoid this, or is there a better/saner way to access database and calendar information than the Notes Automation library?
There are two sets of classes registered by Notes. There are OLE classes, which are registered as “Lotus Notes Automation Classes”, and there are pure COM classes registered as “Lotus Domino Objects”. If you don’t want the UI to come up, you want to be using the latter.
The purpose of the OLE classes is to bring up the Notes client UI and drive it. Those classes include the NotesUIWorkspace and other “front-end” classes”, all of which have “UI” in the name. There are also back-end classes included in the package for working on saved data without driving the UI.
The COM classes just include the back-end functionality.