Topic: Interogate an object for its ActiveX properties and methods ...

[MP]

Thank you for the updates John and Tim.

John's item 5 surprises me in light of item 0 and 4.

[MP]

For my friend Kerry ... if I'm not mistaken another thing about OLEAUT32.DLL is that is is (I'm guessing as I don't have it here) a regular system dll, that is, it's not an ActiveX (COM) dll.

So while it's accessible from VB/VBA (via declare statements as you would for any Win32 API call) it's not accessible directly from LISP. One would have to write an ActiveX (COM) wrapper to expose it to LISP, and hey -- there is one: TBLINF32.DLL; woot.

(As I pretend to understand it anyway).



Edit: Meh, fixed dumb typos.

[Kerry]

[scurries]
.. nudge-note to self: investigate writing COM interfaces with C# ...
.. .. dust off COM and .NET Interoperability ~ Troelsen

[revert_to_Normal_dawdle]

[MP]

I'd truly be worried if there were a different reaction.

 

[Kerry]

As you know, I'm not a VB devotee .. but I wonder what is installed from the redistribution packs for vb5 and vb6.
.. anyone have a manifest ?

[MP]

The short circuited answer is that neither the vb runtimes and or the vb controls distribution host tlbinf32.dll.

An adjunct, I'm 99% sure that if one created a VB app that referenced tlbinf32.dll and then used the VB packager to create a setup program, the setup distribution would in fact include our friend.

I'll perform the above and report back ...

[MP]

... yep.

[Kerry]

[JohnK]

...
John's item 5 surprises me in light of item 0 and 4.

It does?! ...Wait, i just about to ask if i did something wrong when i think i understand why.

This could be the computer i used to rewrite a VB app some goof ball previous CAD mgr wrote. I think i used the trial version of VB5 or something (I can look tomorrow).

The reason i forgot is because im the guinea pig for trying out new computers for the jump to Revit and my latest got the blue-screen-o-death a few times so i had to go back a step or two.  Sorry for the confusion.

[JohnK]

Okay Kerry, your last post confused dahell outa me. In my profile i turned off smiles, images, signatures, avatars, etc. and to me your last post is blank. ...yeah that got me pretty good.

*lol*

[Kerry]

and that is who's fault ??


you must miss so much .. sig's and avatars I can understand ..

and without smileys, how can you tell what peeps really mean ?

[MP]

sig's and avatars I can understand

Hey hey hey -- I'll have you know avatar and signature selection is serious business.

{cough}

:loco:

[FengK]

There is a help file from Microsoft for this tlbinf32.dll.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/224331/en-us/

[KewlToyZ]

I have MEP 2008 as well. I wonder now, is this DLL where the Select Similiar option only available in MEP is wrapped up into?

[taner]

_GetPropertiesAndMethods

dear MP,

Can you post the codes of _GetPropertiesAndMethods ?

Thanks!