Installation manual

USE AND FUNCTIONING

2 USE AND FUNCTIONING

2.1 USING STAR-Link™ ActiveX

The software component is an Automation COM object implementing a dual interface

(it is possible to use it with Visual Basic and Office application).

It contains two kinds of object collection:

• Base stations collection

• Device collection

The collection of the base stations (Base stations) consists of single object base

stations (Base station), while the collection of devices (Devices) is composed of

single object devices. All the devices and base stations represent a group of objects

through which it is possible to navigate by using particular instructions provided by

the Visual Basic programming language. All objects in the control have a dual

interface.

Five objects are provided by the control:

• Main control object

• Base station collections

• Device collections

• Base station object

• Device object

NOTE

The Connection Point is another interface representing the events

that the control sends to the container.

For every object you can define properties, events and methods and therefore also

for STAR-Link™:

− the properties of a control object are values defining its status. They are visible

and can be changed in the "Properties Window" during the development of an

application. Some properties are accessible while the program is running. It is

usually possible to configure them although not always possible to read them;

− the events are indications transmitted by the STAR-Link™ controls to the

application containing them;

− the methods are the operations that the object carry out.