Thursday, May 14, 2009

[VB6]Searching an ActiveX/COM object for a method

This article was first posted by me on StackOverflow in response to my own question, "How do I search an ActiveX/COM object for a method?". This article is an edited version of the original.

"After Googling around not quite finding what I wanted, I remembered the
Edanmo site which got me thinking about TLBINF32.DLL, downloading Microsoft's TLBINF32.CHM and reading up on GetMembersWithSubStringEx.

Below is the implementation of it (done in VB6 with a reference to TLBINF32.DLL), some demo VBScript and output, and the wrapping of that functionality in some VBA.


VBScript demo. The above code was included in my StdLib DLL in the Registry coclass.


Output from the demo (script was run in SciTE).


Finally, the VBA code. A cell has a symbol in it and this routine finds it or returns an error string. (reg. in this case refers to the Registry coclass in the StdLib.DLL)


Hmm ... no error checking. Should fix that.

© Copyright Bruce M. Axtens, 2009

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