A-Shell COM Reference General Information Using This Document A-Shell Doc Overview Available Docs Organization File Types CHM Files Updates Locations Feedback Introduction Background What is the A-Shell ActiveX SDK? Installing the A-Shell ActiveX SDK A-Shell Licensing and the ActiveX SDK What about A-Shell for Unix and AMOS? Visual Basic COM Refresher Visual Basic Object Support COM Identifiers In-Process and Out-of-Process Components Early Binding and Late Binding Interfaces How to Automate A-Shell How to Write a Visual Basic XCALL IApplication Interface Interface Summary Abort Method Activate Method AtPrompt Property DemonstrationMode Property hWnd Property Quit Method RaiseError Method Send Method Version Property Visible Property IMiameLib Interface Interface Summary ccoff Method ccon Method echoff Method echon Method fspec2host Function getcc Function getecho Function tcki Method tin Method wcrt Method wgets Method wputs Method IXcall Interface Execute Method Ping Function IXcallBlock Interface Interface Summary Application Method ArgSize Property ArgType Property ArgValue Property GetArg Function GetStrArg Function GetUnfArg Function PutArg Method PutStrArg Method Code Samples Automation Example MESAG.SBR – Simple XCALL Example ADO.SBR – SQL Database Access XCALL Example Running the ADO sample The ADO Programming Model