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Robert Shanbaum · Guest

I have written an application which may or may not be an automation server -
that is, it can run standalone, or can be invoked via a COM interface. In
the latter mode, there are a few events that I want to fire to provide
notifications back to the controller. I see how to do this in a Delphi
program, but - how can I do this in IE? I have no problem getting IE to
invoke the program, and call methods on the automation interface, but I
can't see how to do the event sinking stuff that I do in a Delphi app in
either VBScript or JScript (mind you, I'm an ignoramus when it comes to
script). Anyone have any examples of doing this sort of thing?

Robert Shanbaum · Guest

I take some of that back - in IE, the "standard DHTML" methods show up, so I
can't call the methods in the automation object's interface. Here's how I'm
invoking it:

<OBJECT id="APXObj"
codeBase="http://localhost/Test3/APTracerX.cab#Version=2,3,0,16"
classid="clsid:566C7286-859A-4D7F-9081-921AD8566C23"
VIEWASTEXT>
<SPAN STYLE="color:red">Object failed to load! </SPAN>
</OBJECT>

That causes the exe to run, but that's about it...

Robert Shanbaum · Guest

Well, I figured out that SOMETHING has to have a reference to the automation
object as such, so I added some buttons to the HTML page, and event handlers
like:

Sub Button1_onclick
dim XObj
Set XObj = CreateObject("APTracerX.APTracer")
XObj.show
End Sub

Sub Button2_onclick
dim XObj
Set XObj = CreateObject("APTracerX.APTracer")
XObj.hide
End Sub

where "show" and "hide" are methods in the interface that simply call the
eponymous methods on the app's main form. That works. Now, I have to
figure out how to sink the events in script. I think I posted earlier that
I can do that OK in a controller app, but it sure would be nice to see an
example of how to do that in script in IE.