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Gary Roach - 11 Dec 2003 01:11 GMT

i'm looking for a way to view the objects contained in a dll so that i don't
have to use trial and error to figure out which libraries to reference when
i'm coding in VBA for access. right now, to get the references to dll's
correct i have to include all the libraries in the project and then use the
object browser to search for the item. (eg. i eventually found DOMDocument
in the microsoft XML library). is there a utility that will list all the
interface names contained in a dll so that i can search for them more
easily? any help is greatly appreciated

gary

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Paul Overway - 11 Dec 2003 01:47 GMT

After you have set a reference to any given ActiveX DLL, OCX, or EXE, you
can see its objects, properties, and methods by selecting View|Object
Browser while in a code window.

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> i'm looking for a way to view the objects contained in a dll so that i don't
> have to use trial and error to figure out which libraries to reference when
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Gary Roach - 11 Dec 2003 13:15 GMT

that's the way i'm doing it now. unfortunately this is very tedious because
there are so many libraries on my system. when i attempt to make references
to all of them by checking all the boxes in the tools/references dialog, i
get errors because of conflicting libraries. at this point i have to
determine which library caused the error, and skip that one on the next
iteration. what i want is to be able to go to the directory containing all
the dll's, run a utility that spits out the names of the object classes and
routines that the dll implements into a text file so that i can search the
text file when i need a given class or function. i had such a utility with
visual c++ a few years ago when i worked with it but i don't have visuall
c++ any more.

> After you have set a reference to any given ActiveX DLL, OCX, or EXE, you
> can see its objects, properties, and methods by selecting View|Object
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Paul Overway - 11 Dec 2003 15:04 GMT

You cannot/should not set a reference to every library on your system...just
the ones you are actually using and licensed to use. Just because a library
is installed on your system doesn't mean you are entitled to use it or
distribute it with your apps. So....this will narrow the number of
libraries down and make using object viewer practical.

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Paul Overway
Logico Solutions, LLC
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> that's the way i'm doing it now. unfortunately this is very tedious because
> there are so many libraries on my system. when i attempt to make references
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david epsom dot com dot au - 22 Dec 2003 22:25 GMT

> i'm looking for a way to view the objects contained in a dll so that i don't
> have to use trial and error to figure out which libraries to reference when
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> gary

It's not really a toolkit question, so people here are not
really going to be good at answering. Perhaps you could try
a general VB group?

Yes, you could build a utility like that.
No, I don't have one.

(david)

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Paul Overway - 23 Dec 2003 00:36 GMT

Actually, the tool is called a help file.

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> > i'm looking for a way to view the objects contained in a dll so that i
> don't
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