Does ASP support event handling for COM components

[jlewin]

I've used ASP since 97, but somehow I've never noticed my lack of event based
programming. Is there any way to load a COM object and define it's event
handler? I thought the following code would work.

<%
sub x_event(arg, arg)
respose.write "event handler"
end sub

dim x as object
set x = createobject("some.thing")
x.add "y"
%>

Since this doesn't work, and I've never tried it, maybe events aren't supported?

[Michael Culley]

jlewin,

as far as I know events are not supported. They wouldn't make much sense
anyway even if they were. The events would have to fire in response to some
property or method call, in which case the code could just be put after the
call anyway.

--
Michael Culley
www.vbdotcom.com


"jlewin" <jlewin@mail.com> wrote in message news:3b7de1fc$1@news.devx.com...
>
> I've used ASP since 97, but somehow I've never noticed my lack of event
based
> programming. Is there any way to load a COM object and define it's event
> handler? I thought the following code would work.
>
> <%
> sub x_event(arg, arg)
> respose.write "event handler"
> end sub
>
> dim x as object
> set x = createobject("some.thing")
> x.add "y"
> %>
>
> Since this doesn't work, and I've never tried it, maybe events aren't
supported?
>
>

[John]

This is a true statement, however this will be changing with .NET as there
is a much closer relationship with the communication between the client and
the server.

John

"Michael Culley" <m_culley@one.net.au> wrote:
>jlewin,
>
>as far as I know events are not supported. They wouldn't make much sense
>anyway even if they were. The events would have to fire in response to some
>property or method call, in which case the code could just be put after
the
>call anyway.
>
>--
>Michael Culley
>www.vbdotcom.com
>
>
>"jlewin" <jlewin@mail.com> wrote in message news:3b7de1fc$1@news.devx.com...
>>
>> I've used ASP since 97, but somehow I've never noticed my lack of event
>based
>> programming. Is there any way to load a COM object and define it's event
>> handler? I thought the following code would work.
>>
>> <%
>> sub x_event(arg, arg)
>> respose.write "event handler"
>> end sub
>>
>> dim x as object
>> set x = createobject("some.thing")
>> x.add "y"
>> %>
>>
>> Since this doesn't work, and I've never tried it, maybe events aren't
>supported?
>>
>>
>
>