Dynamic DLL Calling

[Bazza81]

Hi All

Ok, most of you on here have Winamp I would guess. What I'm trying to figure out is how you would dynamically call a DLL in VB.

For instance:

C:\My VB Winamp\Plugins\plg1.dll
C:\My VB Winamp\Plugins\plg2.dll <-- this one has just been downloaded

Now in the code when you use the API, you have a standard name that you would know e.g. SendMessageA and it never changes Public Declare Functin "SendMessageA" alias SendMessage etc etc, but how would you tell VB that you want to declare plg2 instead of plg1 at runtime? I hope it makes sence to you and if so please help, thanx

[Janus]

You can't do that with Declare Statements, in VB... it just doesn't work.

However, if those DLLs are ActiveX DLL's, you can dynamically load, register, and create the objects inside of them with only a filename, as long as you make them conform to a naming guideline for their objects. That's what I do.

[Bazza81]

Would you by any chance have any tutorials or advice about this?