15.7. Using rich text from other apps via COM/OLE
Notes has a COM API and an OLE API, which means that other Microsoft Windows applications can call Notes functions to make Notes find documents, write documents, open new windows, and so on.
Refer to the Domino Designer help for general information about programming Notes using COM and OLE. For the purposes of working with rich text, the COM API is the same as the LotusScript classes, with one important exception: the new functionality of Notes 6 will not be available via COM in the initial 6.0 release. This functionality might be available in a future release of Notes 6.
The OLE interface does implement the new rich text functions, however. In the following Visual Basic example, we use OLE automation ...
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