Brass Plugins: Outlooker
Outlook is a really handy app. Emails, tasks, calendar,
notes and more all stored in one place. And even better it has a
huge user interface that takes over half your screen!
Outlooker interfaces with Outlook and displays
your tasks, emails, notes, calendar items - whatever you want -
in a very nice little display panel. You can choose any items (and
any subset of those items) to display. Even better, Outlooker supports
the Brass 100% configuration system which allows you to drag, drop
and redesign the display with a few mouse clicks.
Outlooker doesn't even require Outlook to be open
and running on your system - you can see all your information without
even opening Outlook!
Outlooker is compatible with Outlook 2000, XP
and 2003 (known issues), and works in both
Stand-alone and Corporate (Microsoft Exchange) modes.
Installation
Click to download Outlooker
Current version: 0.2
Release date: 11/11/06
Download size: 334k (1 minute on a 56k modem)
Compatibility: Will not work on Brass versions
before v0.22 (get latest Brass)
Download the zip file and extract the setup executable.
Run it, and you'll be taken through the installation. The plugin
is simply copied to your Brass plugins folder.
When you are prompted for the folder to install
to, make sure you select the Plugins folder under the Brass installation
directory. The installer will attempt to find this folder automatically
for you.
If you install the plugin while Brass is running,
go to the main Brass interface, open the "File" menu then
select "Refresh Plugin List". The plugin will appear automatically.
Outlooker in 30 seconds
If you don't like reading detailed documentation,
the Outlooker in 30 Seconds guide
is for you! It will take you through the main features of Outlooker
to get you started as quickly as possible.
Detailed Documentation
Outlooker is very simple to use but there are a few
things you might want to read up on. It'll help you get the most
out of your plugin.
Known Issues
There are currently a couple of "bugs" you may find when
using Outlooker. None of these are actually a problem with Outlooker
itself.
- The first time you use the Send/Receive
icon in Outlooker you may have to click it twice to actually start
the mail check. This is a fault in the Outlook interface
and has been reported to Microsoft. For some unknown reason, and
depending on whether you have Outlook loaded when Outlooker is
running, the first Send/Receive always appears to work (no errors)
but sometimes actually does nothing.
- When creating a new e-mail (clicking the
new mail icon) in Outlooker, a PGP error sometimes appears.
This also appears to be an error in the PGP plugin for Outlook
- there is probably a race condition or similar that causes PGP
to do something before Outlook is ready for it. This is also not
a fault in Outlooker and only occurs if you have the PGP Outlook
addin installed.
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