Thanks Tom,
I did finally figure all that out. I posted the same message to CF-Talk
at the houseoffusion.com.
The DFWCFUG list seems slow to me (not the people or their speed of
response), but there are times when I'm not sure if my post has made it
through. I started a thread about this a while back, but never got a
response.
Thanks again, though. Your answer was spot on. That was indeed what I
was missing. :o)
Chris
Tom Woestman wrote:
The command to register the COM object is regsvr32 followed by the DLL name.
I also suspect you will need to use the following in your CreateObject call:
<cfset BBAPI = CreateObject("COM", "BBAPI.API")>
Tom
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*From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Dave Shuck
*Sent:* Tuesday, March 27, 2007 2:40 PM
*To:* Dallas/Fort Worth ColdFusion User Group Mailing List
*Subject:* Re: [DFW CFUG] Need help instantating a COM object in CF7...
It's myfirst time... :o(
Christopher is the DLL registered on the system? When I have used COM
objects, I have instantiated them by the class name that they system
knows it by rather than how you would instantiate a CFC in a particular
dot delimited path from your web root.
~Dave
On 3/27/07, *Christopher Jordan* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
Hi folks,
I really need some help instantiating a COM object.
I've been given a .dll file, and been told that it is the COM object,
but I don't know how to instantiate it. I thought it would be simple.
I've tried:
<cfset BBAPI = CreateObject("COM", "COM.BBAPI")>
The directory is COM and the dll is called BBAPI. I thought maybe it was
a path thing, but I tried instantiating a CFC (whose directory is on the
same level as the COM directory) and it worked like a champ.
The only thing mentioned about instantiating the object is mentioned in
his component summary. The first two items are:
Type: COM
Name: BBAPI
Note: Used for instantiating the object
Type: Class
Name: API
Note: Used for instantiating the object. (i.e. CreateObject BBAPI.API)
I've tried:
<cfset BBAPI = CreateObject("COM", " COM.API")>
<cfset BBAPI = CreateObject("COM", "COM.BBAPI")>
<cfset BBAPI = CreateObject("COM", "COM.BBAPI.API")>
<cfset BBAPI = CreateObject("COM", " COM.BBAPI.dll")>
I just don't know what to do. The docs say that I need:
<cfset BBAPI = CreateObject("COM", "class")>
Well according to what I'm reading the class is "API".
Can someone help me please? :o)
Chris
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