Re: Program does not invoke methods of ActiveX-DLL

thanks for your advise, but unfortunately im still not getting any further.
the whole project group runs fine inside the IDE, running the compiled
components does not work.

Felix

"Ken Halter" wrote:

> > Unfortunately i'm still out of luck. Switching to Binary-Compatibility
> > and defining a compatibility-dll has the effect that I cannot compile the
> > whole project-group at once. I get an Error that a passing a UDT, that
>
> Compiling groups is another story (I never do that either). If everything's
> set up correctly, there should be no reason to compile an entire group,
> unless you've made changes to each component in that group. Personally, I
> load and compile one thing at a time. Groups are for debugging only here.
>
> > was defined in one dll, cannont be passed by reference to a function
> > declared in that dll.
>
> Try loading that component by itself. When you load a group, VB works very
> hard to resolve everything back into it's "source code" form. It can get
> confused easily.
>
> > Is there a problem with ActiveX-DLL referencing other ActiveX-DLLs?
>
> If you have a dll called DLLA and another called DLLB, DLLA can only
> reference DLLB if DLLB doesn't contain a reference to DLLA... aka circular
> references. They aren't allowed in VB at all. People "sneak" them in once in
> a while, but if VB knows they're there, it will complain and won't allow you
> to compile.
>
> Other than that, no... you shouldn't have a problem referencing other DLLs.
> That's a good thing since those DLLs reference other DLLs themselves (the VB
> Runtime DLLs)
>
> If you absolutely want to build an entire group at once, you'll need to exit
> VB and open that group (vbg) file in Notepad and make sure that the projects
> are getting loaded in the correct order. If you have an EXE that needs a DLL
> called DLLA and that DLL needs one called DLLB, you'll have to make sure
> DLLB is loaded first, followed by DLLA and finally the EXE. That's loading
> the group in "reverse dependency order" and insures that each component gets
> the final interface IDs for any components it requires (much easier to load
> and build one at a time, using groups for debugging only)
>
>
> Ken Halter - MS-MVP-VB - http://www.vbsight.com
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> Please keep all discussions in the groups..
>
>
>
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