COM Operations

The following functions can be used to create and manage COM clients:

#COM DOC	Specifies a help string which usually provides a general description of the COM server.
#COM HELP	Specifies the name of the associated help file and the help context code.
#COM NAME	Specifies the name of the server and the version number.
#COM GUID	Specifies the GUID which identifies the entire application or library (APPID or LIBID).
ACODE$	Translate a Unicode string into an ANSI string.
CLASS/END CLASS	Create the code and data for an object.
CLSID$	Return a 16-byte (128-bit) GUID string containing a CLSID.
ENUM/END ENUM	Creates a group of logically related numeric equates.
EVENT SOURCE	Declare an event interface within a Class definition.
EVENTS	Attach or detach an event handler to/from an event source.
FOR EACH/NEXT	Define a loop of program statements which can sequentially examine and act upon each member of a PowerCollection or LinkListCollection.
GUID$	Return a 16-byte (128-bit) Globally Unique Identifier GUID.
GUIDTXT$	Return a 38-byte human-readable GUID/UUID string.
IDISPINFO	Sets and returns additional information about certain Dispatch Status Codes for the OBJRESULT function.
INSTANCE	Declare INSTANCE variables which are unique to each object.
INTERFACE / END INTERFACE Block (Direct)	Declare a direct object interface and its member Methods/Properties.
INTERFACE/END INTERFACE block (IDBind)	Declare a dispatch interface and its member Methods/Properties for the purposes of IDBinding to a Dispatch COM interface.
ISINTERFACE	Determine whether an object supports a particular interface.
ISNOTHING	Determine the current status of a given object variable.
ISOBJECT	Determine the current status of a given object variable.
LET (with Objects)	Assign an object reference to an object variable.
LET (with Variants)	Assign a value to a variable or Variant.
ME	A pseudo object variable to reference the current object.
METHOD / END METHOD	Define a METHOD procedure within a class.
MYBASE	A pseudo object variable to reference the inherited parent object.
OBJACTIVE	Return True/False of the running state of a COM EXE object.
OBJECT GET	Retrieve or read the value of an Dispatch Interface member Property.
OBJECT LET	Assign or write a value to an Dispatch Interface member Property.
OBJECT SET	Assign or write a value to an Dispatch Interface member Property that contains a reference to an object.
OBJECT CALL	Call or execute a member Method of an Dispatch Interface.
OBJECT RAISEEVENT	Call or execute a member Method of an event Dispatch Interface.
OBJEQUAL	Check if object variables refer to the same object.
OBJPTR	Return an object pointer of a specified object variable.
OBJRESULT	Return the execution result of the most recent OBJECT statement.
OBJRESULT$	Returns a string which describes an OBJRESULT (hResult) code.
PROGID$	Return the alphanumeric PROGID string (text) of a given CLSID.
PROPERTY GET	Retrieve a data value from the object.
PROPERTY SET	Assign a data value to an object.
RAISEEVENT	Call Event Handler code.
RESET	Clear a Variant to empty (%VT_EMPTY).
UCODE$	Translate an ANSI string into a Unicode string.
VARIANT#	Return the numeric value contained in a Variant variable.
VARIANT$	Return the ANSI dynamic string value contained in a Variant variable.
VARIANT$$	Returns the Unicode string value contained in a Variant variable.
VARIANTVT	Determine the internal data type of the data stored in a Variant.