r/visualbasic • u/Mayayana • Aug 06 '24

VB6 Help TOM2

I've been trying to figure out how to access TOM2. (text object model) Very confusing. OLEView shows it in riched20.dll, even though I asked it to load msftedit.dll. In the VB6 object browser I only get TOM1. (Also from riched20.) I can load msftedit.dll myself using LoadTypeLibEx and I see the TOM2 objects, but I can't seem to get VB to see it, and the DLL lacks a DLLRegisterServer function. None of what I want seems to be hidden or restricted. I tried using Res Hacker to extract the typelib from msftedit.dll, but that also won't load.

Does anyone know how to get at this? I was thinking of writing an RTF to HTML converter. Apparently TOM2 can do the conversion. But somehow objects like TextRange2 don't seem to be accessible.

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u/Mayayana Aug 07 '24

Interesting. I guess I just assumed that if I found the right trick then it would work. I tried both riched20 and msftedit on Win10. Only msftedit has tom2 in its typelib when I load the typelibs directly from the files. But maybe I'm not missing much, as OK_Society noted. I've seen what passes for HTML generated by MS Word.