Developer Guide and Reference

ID 767251
Date 10/31/2024
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COMGetActiveObjectByProgID

COM Subroutine: Passes a programmatic identifier and returns a pointer to the IDispatch interface of a currently active object. This routine is only available for Windows.

Module

USE IFCOM

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(INT_PTR_KIND()).

status

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

Example

See the example in COMInitialize.