VB - CreateObject()

[s0bieski]

Hi I was just asking a friend yesterday how I would go on writing a code that would initialize applications on my desktop. He then told me to search about CreateObject(). I learned that you need to declare the object like
Dim PS as object
then on a command button I would write
Set PS = CreateObject("photoshop.application") and once it was clicked it would start up photoshop! That's great I love it haha but I'm kinda new to it so I'm having trouble. I tried writing the same code to start up Winamp but it wouldn't work. Sometimes a message box says ActiveX was unable to initiliaze something.. or w.e. So please tell me. How would I find out what to write for let's say a Game, or some any other application?? How and where do I find the correct code for each program? THANKS U!!

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[Frans C]

With CreateObject you can only create COM objects.
If the application is not registrered as COM object, you can't use it.

Have a look at Shell or ShelExecute instead.