How do I Instantiate / use an OCX control in VB

[SBendBuckeye]

Client has an OCX with no source code (they lost the code somewhere along the line before my time). They are using it to interface into MS Project from a form (written in Uniface) which allows external OCX calls but no external DLL calls. They call it to add a resource or a task, etc.

If I add the OCX file to the References collection in VB, I can see the properties, methods and Declare statements using the object browser.

How do I instantiate or link to an object? It will let me Dim it but I get an error when I try to use the NEW keyword.

Also, how do I reference its methods? If I put the object on a form I cannot then see the methods which are displayed in the browser.

Thanks in advance for any help and or suggestions you can give me! Have a great day!

 

[Cenedra]

DOes this not work?

Dim myObj as New DLLName.className

myObj.property = blahblah

 

[SBendBuckeye]

It will NOT work with the New keyword. However, I was able to get it to work with CreateObject. After I added a reference to the OCX file using the browse feature the following code works:

Dim myObj As Object
Set myObj = CreateObject("OCXFileName.UserFormName&quot
myObj.AnyPublicUserFormNameMethod
Set myObj = Nothing

Thanks!