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From: Bee on 22 Oct 2009 19:48 My book on ActiveX is very poor when it comes to ActiveX EXEs or DLLs; barely a mention. What to buy it? lol Does anyone have an excellent book that I might then find on eBay or someplace, even a library so I can read more details about ActiveX EXE. Title and ISBN? As was previouly mentoned in a post to consider a "Factory" So now what about Factories? How do I Google that? Again - Have a main app and want to launch multiple ActiveX EXEs (all the same) that run in their own memory space and thread. Want to treat them as an array and WithEvents so I do not have to write and maintain repeats of the same code etc. Messy without the Index. I need to pass them params and get an occasional event from each. No communications speed between main and ActiveX is required.
From: mayayana on 22 Oct 2009 21:14 > My book on ActiveX is very poor when it comes to ActiveX EXEs or DLLs; barely > a mention. What to buy it? lol > Does anyone have an excellent book that I might then find on eBay or > someplace, even a library so I can read more details about ActiveX EXE. > Title and ISBN? > I don't know about getting events through a single event sub from an array of objects, but as for a book, I gave you a link in your earlier thread to Dan Appleman's ActiveX book. That's the only book I know of that deals with ActiveX components to any extent. They're kind of a secret in a way. Few people seem to use them. I use them quite a bit myself, but mainly as scriptin components. Also, about the missing posts: We were talking about that the other day, and it's also come up in the scripting group. Posts have been not showing up for a week or two. It's something that seems to happen every couple of months. I don't know why. It's a mystery how something can be posted to msnews and never show up, yet be on google groups. If you have a post that keeps getting blocked and you're desperate to get it through, I find that it works to add spaces. I use a short VBScript to add a space after every character. It makes the text a little harder to read -- like reading a unicode file in an ascii editor -- but it works to circumvent whatever half-baked filter Microsoft seems to be using.
From: Bee on 22 Oct 2009 21:38 Well, your reply is not on the MS Community and IS on Google Groups. Thanks but Dan's book seems lacking. I found a COM+ book that seems to be helpful but cannot view it all on line. It is at my distant brick and morter library and is available on line for sale so that is one option. More I hope. I ahve made some progress and have a working ActiveX EXE as a single non-array but need the next sep of better integration rather than have to pre-create as many object that might be needed. Of course perfomance is an issue and I cannot tell yet if my limit is N or N+1 to have all task running at the same time (sort of). As alway thanks for your replies. "Bee" wrote: > My book on ActiveX is very poor when it comes to ActiveX EXEs or DLLs; barely > a mention. What to buy it? lol > Does anyone have an excellent book that I might then find on eBay or > someplace, even a library so I can read more details about ActiveX EXE. > Title and ISBN? > > As was previouly mentoned in a post to consider a "Factory" > So now what about Factories? > How do I Google that? > > Again - > Have a main app and want to launch multiple ActiveX EXEs (all the same) that > run in their own memory space and thread. > Want to treat them as an array and WithEvents so I do not have to write and > maintain repeats of the same code etc. Messy without the Index. > I need to pass them params and get an occasional event from each. > No communications speed between main and ActiveX is required. >
From: Desi on 22 Oct 2009 22:17 Here's three, Bee. Developing COM/ActiveX Components with Visual Basic 6 A Guide To The Perplexed By Dan Appleman SAMS ISBN: 1-56276-576-0 Visual Basic Object & Component Handbook By Peter Vogel Prentice Hall ISBN: 0-13-023073-1 Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Component Tools Guide (This is Volume 3 of the three volume Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Reference Library) Microsoft Press ISBN: 1-57231-864-3 (This book is available online at MSDN and it's an excellent place to start.) Also, I think you will find that more one begins to communicate/exchange data between threads/processes, the more one will come to use APIs. An excellent reference for that is: Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the Win32 API By Dan Appleman SAMS ISBN: 0-672-31590-4 HTH, Desi "Bee" <Bee(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:44ED8D2F-0B50-418F-95F4-E17A02CB4AB4(a)microsoft.com... > My book on ActiveX is very poor when it comes to ActiveX EXEs or DLLs; > barely > a mention. What to buy it? lol > Does anyone have an excellent book that I might then find on eBay or > someplace, even a library so I can read more details about ActiveX EXE. > Title and ISBN? > > As was previouly mentoned in a post to consider a "Factory" > So now what about Factories? > How do I Google that? > > Again - > Have a main app and want to launch multiple ActiveX EXEs (all the same) > that > run in their own memory space and thread. > Want to treat them as an array and WithEvents so I do not have to write > and > maintain repeats of the same code etc. Messy without the Index. > I need to pass them params and get an occasional event from each. > No communications speed between main and ActiveX is required. >
From: Nobody on 22 Oct 2009 23:16
In MSDN Library Oct 2001, use search by title only, and look for "Creating an ActiveX EXE Component". Use "Locate" button to see where it's in relation to the contents. |