How to monitor another app's COM object

[bostonnole]

I have a VB6 COM object that I created that holds a queue of requests (queues.cls) (mostly printing requests). It does this by saving a collection of queue objects (queue.cls). Regardless of what information is saved my question is this.

I have application #1 (ABC.exe) that is an ActiveX EXE that creates my queue COM object and adds/deletes information from the queues.

Can I have application #2 (XYZ.exe) query the same queue COM object and monitor what is in the queue that application ABC has established. Application #2 is simply going to monitor what is in the queue, hopefully from an ASP page.

Any thoughts out there?

[f0rcegr0wn]

I think what you need is one of two things...

1. An ActiveX EXE that contains a GlobalSingleUse class keeping track of the queue itself(monitor.cls) and a MultiUse class representing the queue (queue.cls). When the EXE starts create the monitor class and keep a reference to it on a global variable. Now you can get the queue stats through any queue and from other no queue creating proggies.

2. Create a class that adds itself to the ROT table so that other proggies can do GetObject. This needs API calls.

Your problem is similar to mine...

http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...hreadid=267176