Re: Catastrophic OLE Error

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From: Ola Gunnars
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 06:54

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sayer@ctp.com (Stephen D. Ayers) wrote:


>I have built a very small OCX using the VC++ 4.1 project Wizard. The
>control supports a single method with no arguments and no return
>value.

>The VC++ OLE test container tool works fine. It allows me to invoke
>methods without difficulty.

>However, whenever I try invoking methods on the object from VB, VBA
>within Excel, or VC++ clients they all return "OLE Automation error -
>Catastrophic failure" after a successful object create.

>This is running under NT 4.0 Beta 1.

>Am I missing something? Is this the proper way to create OCX objects? 

>Thanks,

How are you using the ocx ...
You must use it in an form and get the object member ...
dim obj as object

set obj = myocxinmyform.object
obj.myfunc()

/Ola

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