Accessing Activex DLL from vbscript

[TomKane]

Hello,

I have a query relating to activex and vbscript and would appreciate any advice you might have.

We're starting to do a bit of activex in our apps. It's a bit of a transitional stage, so we're looking to invoke these DLLs using VBScript.

The things I'm unsure about are:

How do I get 'createobject' to pinpoint the DLL i'm looking for

Can I make the assumption that if an activex dll works in vb then it is bound to work in vbscript

Thanks in advance

Tom

 

[TomKane]

Well I did it - it would seem as if the fact that the dll is registered on the PC is good enough. I got the dll to interact with the code below:

Dim x

Set x = CreateObject("ThingDemo.Thing&quot

x.getRecordSetup

Do While Not x.adoRs.EOF
if not isnull(x.adors("Name&quot) then
msgbox x.adors("Name&quot
end if
x.adoRs.MoveNext
Loop

 

[TasMot]

Hi,
Since this works for you when you write the ActiveX component, how do you figure out something when you can't find the docs for the ActiveX component. For example, I found out that indeed a registered component (IBM's Personal Communcations) was registered (and when I spelled it correctly) the createobject worked. Now, how do I tell it to enter a command. I need to change the mainframe password for a user so that they don't have to know how to sign-on and do it themselves.

TasMOt

 

[TomKane]

TasMot,

I think what you can do is, if you reference the component in a vb app, you can use the intellisense to see what the functions and variables are.

Hope this helps,

Tom

 

[TasMot]

Tom,
Thanks, where I ran into problems was that I did not know how to do that in VB. After somebody showed me how to do that I started making progress.

TasMot