VB6 Runtime Type Retrival?

I think what you are looking for is TypeName rather than TypeOf.

I think what you are looking for is TypeName rather than TypeOf. If TypeName(foobar) = "CommandButton" Then DoSomething End If Edit: What do you mean Dynamic Objects? Do you mean objects created with CreateObject(""), cause that should still work.

Edit: Private Sub Command1_Click() Dim oObject As Object Set oObject = CreateObject("Scripting. FileSystemObject") Debug. Print "Object Type: " & TypeName(oObject) End Sub Outputs Object Type: FileSystemObject.

Maybe I should clarify my question, I want to know what a dynamically typed Object is, so using TypeName will (in my case) only return "Object". – DAC Sep 9 '08 at 16:07.

I don't have a copy of VB6 to hand, but I think you need the Typename() function... I can see it in Excel VBA, so it's probably in the same runtime. Interestingly, the help seems to suggest that it shouldn't work for a user-defined type, but that's about the only way I ever do use it. Excerpt from the help file: TypeName Function Returns a String that provides information about a variable.

Syntax TypeName(varname) The required varname argument is a Variant containing any variable except a variable of a user-defined type.

TypeName is what you want... Here is some example output: VB6 Code: Private Sub cmdCommand1_Click() Dim a As Variant Dim be As Variant Dim c As Object Dim d As Object Dim e As Boolean a = "" be = 3 Set c = Me. CmdCommand1 Set d = CreateObject("Project1. Class1") e = False Debug.

Print TypeName(a) Debug. Print TypeName(b) Debug. Print TypeName(c) Debug.

Print TypeName(d) Debug. Print TypeName(e) End Sub Results: String Integer CommandButton Class1 Boolean.

This should prove difficult, since in VB6 all objects are COM (IDispatch) things. Thus they are only an interface. TypeOf(object) is class probably only does a COM get_interface call (I forgot the exact method name, sorry).

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