Level of exposure in ActiveX dll

[Karl Blessing]

I tried Keyword Search (which brings nothing back at all on several queries) and FAQ.

What I am trying to figure out is how do you do something like.

Obj.Shape.Name.Type = "sometype"

having Obj.Shape is easy enough because you can have it exposed as a simple property, or function even. But where I get confused is when it goes a step beyound, where the ActiveX can actually tell the host what more to do, Like the example above.

For example I currently have this structure of class collection I Want to expose (all is there except "count" is what I'm hoping to add when exposed as a function to return back a count for the sub-collections) [code.cls, Shapes.cls, Subcode.cls and ShpHand.cls]

Shapes Collection
 -Name
 -Type
 -Description
 -Count (count of Codes)
 --Code Collection
   -Code
   -Codetype
   -Description
   -expanded
   -plotted
   -total
   -Count (count of SubCodes)
   --Subcode Collection
     -Code
     -Description
     -Plotted
     -Total

so I am hoping to be able to expost to the host something like

Obj.Shape("Name&quot.Code(2).SubCode(3).Description

of an example of what I currently call multi-level exposure.

Anyone have any reference or help on this? Karl Blessing aka kb244{fastHACK}