Taking exposure to the next step

[Karl Blessing]

I've made ActiveX for a little while, but I've always exposed properties, and functions, rather simple such as

.Dothis(....)
.thisproperty

etc, what I want to be able to do is
MyDll.Item("KeyName&quot.CommandForthisKey
or
MyDll.Item("KeyName&quot.PropertyForthisKey

something along those lines, so I wouldnt have to do
MyDll.Command(Keyname,....)
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[rbobbitt]

Karl,

Not sure what your project involves exactly, but would it be reasonable to have the Item() method (or property) in your example return a reference to an object and then have the collection populated with the relevant objects? In Other words:

Private mCol as Collection ' populated with relevant objects

Public Property Get Item(KeyName As String) As Object
On Error Goto ET
Set Item=mCol.Item(KeyName)
Exit Property
ET:
Set Item=Nothing
End Property

Then from the outside:

MyDll.Item(&quot;KeyName&quot.CommandSpecificToObject

Using late binding like this means a performance hit of course, so if this is a concern, maybe you can work some sort of interface scheme up, have your objects implement that and have the Item() property or method return a reference to that instead.

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[Karl Blessing]

I currently use a collection of 79 items, so I am not sure how badly a performance hit will affect me, since it's on an ASP (using an ActiveX dll to handle the collection for my ASP) [sig]<p>Karl<br><a href=mailto:kb244@kb244.com>kb244@kb244.com</a><br><a href=

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[rbobbitt]

Doh! Forgot that you said &quot;DLL&quot; -- was thinking ActiveX EXE when I was referring to the interface stuff. [sig]<p>Russ<br><a href=mailto:bobbitts@hotmail.com>bobbitts@hotmail.com</a><br><a href=

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