>>>Hi everybody,
>>>
>>>I have 76 procedures .These procedures process different tasks.
>>>I read the names of these procedures into a string variable.
>>>How can I call a procedure if the name of the procedure is in a string variable?
>>>I tried to use scripting control but no success so far.
>>>Thanks,
>>>Vlad
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>>If you use VB5, I would say... make a by Select Case statement. I don't think of another way to do that.
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>>If you use VB6, take a look at the CallByName statement. It allows you to call a method or a property from a string!!!
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>Eric,
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>My office is trying to convert a U.S. and State/County thematic mapping program that we wrote in FoxPro 2.6 into VB 6.0.
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>We are faced with the same problem. We found the CallByName command in VB6; but, couldn't figure out just how to use it - we're new to VB. Could you give me an example of the sytax we need to use?
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>Thanks,
>
>Dan


Hi Dan,
this is what we did:

result = CallByName(objloader, callstr, VbMethod, ar_dbs(), db, Form1)
where objolader is the instance of the class,
callstr= property name
and the parameters the procedure take( in our case array, database and form)

Good luck!
Regards,
Vlad