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David M · Guest

Hi,

I'm experimenting with COM at the moment, and have what as far as I can tell
is a completely standard implementation with a coclass and a
TAutoObjectFactory created on initialization etc, and it works great if my
program is already running when I try to use it via a script:

Dim evo
Set evo = CreateObject("MyProgram.MyApplication")
evo.SayHello

which promptly makes a little Hello dialog appear in my app. Which is good.

The problem is that if my program is not already running and I run this
script then nothing happens for a minute or so and then I get the following
error:
"Error: ActiveX component can't create object:
'MyProgram.MyApplication'; Code: 800A01AD"
which is the same error I would get if the application isn't registered.
What I want to happen is that if the program isn't running, trying to run
this script would start the program and then continue as normal. From what
I've read I thought this would happen automatically. (I've run the program
with /regserver, and as I said it works fine when it's already running.)

So what am I doing wrong?

Any help will be much appreciated :)

Cheers,

David