Using Visual Basic Group (.vbg) URGENT !!!

[Harry7979]

Hey all,
I have two different modules that are saved as projects (i.e I have two .vbp's). I have added (or merged) those two projects and created one .vbg. Now there is one .vbg containing the above two .vbp's.
Please tell me how do I access form of one project from the form of the other project. Please do it fast as this is urgent
Thanks a lot.

Harry

[WizBang]

This does not seem possible, probably because two seporate projects would be compiled as two seporate exe's, so they would not be linked in any way. Why can't you put all the files you need together in one project? There may be other solutions depending on what you need, such as a UserControl, Dll, etc..

[jamesa]

sorry WizBang,

it seems that two separates apllications can communicate. the callback.dll from Jürgen Thümmler shows how.

[Cimperiali]

if the two project are an activex and an exe standard, you can have easy communication
ie:
a dll can be accessed via its public methods from an exe standard, and they vvoth
could haveinterfaces in common

If they are two exe standard, things are different, as they are private as per
outside the single projects.

You could commnuicate in different ways. Ie: have the two exes writing and
reading from a table (this is common, but the two project are still independent),
or one could use api to findwindow of the other and manage to get some infos
(but that is not a fair way to develope your projects).
Better you consider redesign it a bit...

[WizBang]

sorry WizBang,

it seems that two separates apllications can communicate. the callback.dll from Jürgen Thümmler shows how.

While it is true that two compiled applications can communicate, this does not appear to be what Harry7979 wants. Unless I misunderstand, the question is more along the lines of how to make two projects compile into one exe.

[Cimperiali]

sorry WizBang,

it seems that two separates apllications can communicate. the callback.dll from Jürgen Thümmler shows how.

Took a look.
First, it is not a com object but a C++ one
*************added later*******
Having had a second look, and sawing the Api findwindow and
the like, I think underhood process might be different:
it resemble more subclassing, to get messages - and data
with messages
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Can this make a difference? Maybe: the equivalent would be
a dll that could be a singleObject and could be instantiate by two standard exe.
Then you could make it receive an identifier from each exe (which both should
implement same interface to communicate with the dll), and from dll you could
switch calls from one to the others...

I have played with callbacks, but never tried an object that could be a single
object that could act as single object for many clients. For sure it is possible,
as you can invoke "GetObject()", but I am afraid of deadlocks...

[Cimperiali]

Unless I misunderstand, the question is more along the lines of how to make two projects compile into one exe.

...Not sure, but thought -as he asked

access form of one project from the form of the other project

-only to communicate between the two...

[Cimperiali]

a dll that could be a singleObject and could be instantiate by two standard exe
(that is: two exes that shares same data through a dll)
seems not makable that easy in vb:

from msdn:

Apartment-Model Threading in Visual Basic
In Visual Basic, apartment-model threading is used to provide thread safety.
In apartment-model threading, each thread is like an apartment — all objects
created on the thread live in this apartment, and are unaware of objects in other
apartments.

Visual Basics implementation of apartment-model threading eliminates conflicts in
accessing global data from multiple threads by giving each apartment its own
copy of global data[...]

This means that you cannot use global data to communicate between objects on
different threads.

Note Objects in different apartments can only communicate with each other if a
client passes them references to each other.