Quick Question regarding events in VB6...

I originally created a class (with no events), and the procedure in my original program had no problem seeing the members of the class after it instantiated an object derived from that class.

Once events were added, the only way I could get the original program to "Capture"/Sink/Consume (not sure if they're all synnomous or not) the events that I added was to change the declaration of the object from "Private MyObj as New ClassICreated" to "Private WithEvents MyObj as ClassICreated" (since WithEvents and New don't mix for some reason)...

Now whenever I try to call a method or property from ClassICreated, I get "Method or Data Member Not Found" ...

I already tried "Set MyObj as New ClassICreated" in my code, but still no go...

Maybe my understanding of events is somewhat flawed.. Why can't you use "WithEvents" and "New" on the same declaration line? As long as I use "New" on the declaration line, the Methods/Data Members are seen, but the events are not. If I use "WithEvents", I get "Method or Data Member Not Found" compile-time errors.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

ok.. first of all.. why not use set xxx as NEW xxx

form my point of view (and all that i read), if you do something like that you are adding overhead to your code, and can be very bad if you use that object a lot of times in your code...
every time you reference that object, VB auto adds control code to see if that is the first time you reference it, and if it true then it load the class..

you will have something like this

if xxx is nothing then
   set xxx = new xxx

but automatic by VB...

i think your error is not starting the object.. maybe you miss the set xxx = new xxx at the start of your code??

Gonzalo Bianchi

There are some limitations on the use of WithEvents. For example, you cannot use an generic Object variable. I think this is the reason you cannot use it with New: when the compiler creates a New object (declared as New) for you, it does not know what type of object it is.
Regarding your specific problem, you did not mentioned if the class is in the same or in a separate project (that makes a difference)

Marco