Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Bill Nolan <[email protected]> · Mon, 23 Oct 2006 10:53:45 -0500

Hi all,
    I have been fumbling around with getting a vendor supplied control
to integrate with the rest of my epics controls. I have learned enough
VB and Windows to understand what I am working with, I hope.
The vendor supplies a very nice instrument control program, which only
has a VBA ( VB for Applications ) interface to it.
    The interface is nice and simple, already for use as a BO or Sub
record as part of an IOC, or to act as a CA client but I can not ( as
far as I know) import a Com-object in to VBA nor will it give me a Dll
and header file to link in to my epics App.
Has any one solved this sort of problem before ?
Or am I missing something simple that would let me bring in the Ca
libraries to my VBA environment .

The second part is I hope much less complex,
I seem to remember hearing that it is possible to link in ActiveX
libraries (.ocx files) in to win32 native epics apps. Does any one have
an example of how to do it ? Or the patients to explain how.

--Bill
P.S. many many thanks to Kay and others who made the native win32 build
work so well.

-- 
Bill Nolan
Washington University Medical School
Department of Biochemistry
4566 Scott Ave.
Mail Stop 8231
St. Louis, Mo 63110
1.314.362.4445 Fax 1.314.362.7183

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System