Your form must be wrapped in an ActiveX class in the VB
ActiveX DLL.
This allows you to create an instance of it in VBA, which
will be loaded into AutoCAD's process.
You would add a method on your class that can be called
when you load it into VBA, and that method can show your
form.
"Kathleen LIston" wrote in message
news:11955579F54329C579D6A17E426CD125@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> Thank you for responding. I can't find documentation to walk through this
>
> process. I assume I have to make the DLL in Visual Basic then somehow load
>
> in to ACAD VB, but haven't figured out how I reference it. I am able to
>
> insert it as a reference, but not actually load (formx) that is stored in
>
> the dll. Do I need to move all my code and functions to Visual Basic
outside
>
> of AutoCAD VB? and then compile it and load it?
>
> -Kathleen Liston
>
> "Tony Tanzillo" wrote in message
> news:8679D9E04AFB1467AB6E8DB70478D65E@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> > You could create an ActiveX Dll and put your VB form in it,
> > load it using VBA, and show it. This will cause it to be
> > modal rather than modeless. Putting the form in an ActiveX
> > DLL and loading it into AutoCAD also makes many AutoCAD
> > ActiveX operations run up to 10X faster than they do when
> > called from another process.
> >
> > "Kathleen LIston" wrote in message
> > news:9615A57BA0117F2393CDA17F9CC40CF0@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> > > Is there any way to keep a form up while other actions take place with
> > > visual basic or do I have to create an autocad dialog and call VB from
> > that
> > > dialog (if that is possible).
> > >
> > > Thanks, Kathleen Liston
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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