COMGetActiveObjectByProgID (W*32)

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

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).

See the example in COMInitialize.