Provide add-in function in my own app?

[Luise Zhou]

Hi,

Can any one tell me how to provide add-in functions in my own application
which like VB-IDE does?
Any suggestion will be appreciated.

Best regards
Luise Zhou

[David Ng]

Hey,

I was stumped at this question too...but i figured it out on the weekend!!!

1: Create a new ActiveX EXE project, this is your main app.
call the project TestApp
call the form frmTestApp
2: Create a new ActiveX DLL project, this is your plugin.
3: Set the project name to TestPlugin.
4: Set the class name to CTestPlugin.
5: Set the Instacing of the CTestPlugin class to MultiUse.
6: Put the follwoing code in the declarations section of the CTestPlugin
class:
----cut----------------------------------------------------
Public Property Get GetPluginDescription() As String
GetPluginDescription = "A dummy test plugin."
End Property
----cut----------------------------------------------------
7: Put the following code into the Form_Click event of the main form in your
TestApp project.
----cut----------------------------------------------------
Dim objTest As Object
Dim sTitle As String

sTitle = "CTestPlugin" 'name of plugin class
Set objTest = CreateObject("TestPlugin." & sTitle) 'Note
TestPlugin, the name

'of the project
msgbox objTest.GetPluginDescription 'Name of
function
Set objTest = Nothing 'destroy the object once we're finished
----cut----------------------------------------------------
8: Compile the TestApp prrogram
9: In the TestPlugin project, add a reference to the newly compiled TestApp
(use the browse button to find it)
10: Compile the DLL, then register it using regsvr32.exe
eg. c:\windows\system> regsvr32 c:\testplugin\testplugin.dll
11: Run the TestApp, click the form, and bam! the a message box pops up with
the plugin description.


Check out the VB Books Online program about classes and how to expose them
from your TestApp...

hope this helps...and i hope its not buggy cos i typed it up pretty quick...

David Ng
dasng@eisa.net.au

Luise Zhou <xmihu@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> Hi,
>
> Can any one tell me how to provide add-in functions in my own application
> which like VB-IDE does?
> Any suggestion will be appreciated.
>
> Best regards
> Luise Zhou