COMGetActiveObjectByProgID

DFCOM Subroutine: Passes a programmatic identifier and returns a pointer to the IDispatch interface of a currently active object.

Modules: USE DFCOM

Syntax

CALL COMGetActiveObjectByProgID (prog_id, idispatch, status)

prog_id
The programmatic identifier of type CHARACTER*(*).

idispatch
An output argument that returns the object's IDispatch interface pointer. Must be of type INTEGER(4) on ia32 processors; INTEGER(8) on ia64 processors.

status
The status of the operation. It can be any status returned by CLSIDFromProgID or GetActiveObject. Must be of type INTEGER(4).

See Also:

CLSIDFromProgID and GetActiveObject in the Win32 SDK