Halting screen updates in Outlook?

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Dennis Brown

Is there a means of halting screen updates with the object model?
I need to have the screen reader send Control+RightArrow x-number of times (which is all done via the screen reader's internal scripting) within the Attachment field, but I don't want it to be slow. Updating the screen will make it slow, so I'd like to temporarily halt that until I'm finished.
 
You can't halt screen updates in Outlook unless you subclass Outlook and set
up a Windows message handler and intercept all Windows messages to every
application, make sure the call is to Outlook and dispose of that message if
it's directed to a window you want to not update. Very messy, big potential
to really screw up Windows operation and all done with the Win32 API and not
the Outlook object model.




Is there a means of halting screen updates with the object model?
I need to have the screen reader send Control+RightArrow x-number of times
(which is all done via the screen reader's internal scripting) within the
Attachment field, but I don't want it to be slow. Updating the screen will
make it slow, so I'd like to temporarily halt that until I'm finished.
 
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