ASP Type Library and More

[Karl Blessing]

I need to know two things

1) How do I setup the code so that the dll itself can behave as a page, rather than needing a *.asp to create an instance of it and run, because I have seen this done before, especially with CGI. This is the code I have thus far, but all it helps explain it how to obtain the ASP context from the ASP page that the ActiveX dll/ocx was created in.

Dim Request As ASPTypeLibrary.Request
Dim Response As ASPTypeLibrary.Response
Dim Server As ASPTypeLibrary.Server
Dim Session As ASPTypeLibrary.Session
Dim Application As ASPTypeLibrary.Application

Private Sub Class_Initialize()
    Dim AspSC As ASPTypeLibrary.ScriptingContext
    Set AspSC = GetObjectContext
    Set Request = AspSC.Request
    Set Response = AspSC.Response
    Set Server = AspSC.Server
    Set Session = AspSC.Session
    Set Application = AspSC.Application
End Sub

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The second question is a stumper for me, but how do I make it possible to return the binary data itself from an image in a picturebox even if raw bitmap, because I certainly cannot seem to figure out how to return a picturebox's image from an activeX control, to the ASP calling it so that I can do a response.binarywrite, for example I Want to do something like so in ASP calling the object asking it to return the binary data in the picturebox it generated behind the scenes.

....
   Response.ContentType = "image/bmp"
   Response.binaryWrite obj.pwImage
...

it would be nice however if I could do the above in the same manner that I wanted to do with the solution for #1 , so that I can call it direct like

http://www.somdomain.com/test.dll?someinfo=somedata

and expect the return content to be treated as an image.

any help will be greatly appreciated since both topics (binary info out of a activeX, and using activeX as a page) were very very lightly documented in my search.

just a note, I understand returns from a picturebox may be very large for the internet due to it being a bitmap and all, but I intend to take this one step at a time and not worry about that just at this moment Karl Blessing aka kb244{fastHACK}

 

[wujen]

kb244,

Why not you use DHTML or IIS applications in vb6. Hard code you need in an application setting and have all of it run from that.

Aaron

 

[Karl Blessing]

Um what?

whats the point of that, I need something for my VB application to grab via ASP, and because the images are generated at the time of the request with latitude and longitude information, I cant hardcode a couple million posilibilities. Karl Blessing aka kb244{fastHACK}

 

[vasah20]

I *think* that you need to create the dll as an ISAPI filter, then you can filter all the information through that DLL. I'm just guessing though, so there's a very good chance that I'm wrong...