Dynamic Dll's?

[Shrog]

We do exactly what you need to do, but we use ActiveX DLL's. This way you can say:

objWhatever = CreateObject("DLLName.ClassName")

I don't know enough about straight forward C++ to say this for certain, but I think you can achieve this by using a type library:

//-------------------------------------------------------------------
//  IMainForm
//-------------------------------------------------------------------
    [
      odl,
      uuid(06CFF40F-A63B-11D3-8476-00E029423382),
      version(1.0),
      dual,
      nonextensible,
      oleautomation
    ]
    interface IMainForm : IDispatch {
        [id(0x01), propget]
        HRESULT Window([out, retval] IWindow** retval);
    };

In the simple example above, I think that the use of the word "oleautomation" makes this class creatable with VB's "CreateObject" function.

Hope this helps.
Shrog

[Shrog]

On second thought, I'm totally wrong. You cannot create an object using a TLB.

The fact is that the DLL is not a COM object, so you would not be able to use it dynamically in VB, only staticly.

Shrog

The problem is: The dll's are not mine..!

I'll see what I can come up with... and perhaps I'll just write a c++ dll that will call the dll's for me... that way it should work (I hope)

Gerco.