Strings as Object Methods

[evilmonkey]

Hi everybody,

I'm completely new to VB (I'm on 6.0 for this project), but I'm not new to programming. My problem is as such: I have a string that I want to use to call a method of a specified object. I'm using the Microsoft Agent class, and here's what I'm doing (in a nutshell):

Private Sub Form_Load()
   Agent1.Characters.Load "Merlin", "merlin.acs" 
   Set Merlin = Agent1.Characters("Merlin")
   Dim sAction As String
   sAction = "Show"
   Merlin.sAction
   Merlin.Play ("Greet")
   'etc
   Merlin.Hide
End Sub

It fails on Merlin.sAction. I know I can do this in C/C++ derrived web languages (such as PHP and Perl), but I'm not sure how o do this in VB. Help is appreciated.

Cheers!

[brucevde]

Use the CallByName function

sAction = "Show"
CallByName merlin, sAction, VbMethod

[Harsh Gupta]

i dont know about PHP and other similar languages, but in VB, you cannot expect this to work:

Dim iStr as String
iStr = [i]<name of action>[/i] 'Show in your case
Object.iStr

because sAction is not a valid event of MS Agent control.
just use:

Merlin.Show

it should work.

Harsh Gupta

EDIT: right bruce, i forgot the CallByName funcntion!! sorry