LotusScript for Visual Basic Programmers - IBM Redbooks

In Visual Basic, we can access the Notes objects in one of two ways:
Directly, if the object can be created externally.
Indirectly, if the object is a dependent object. You can get a reference to
it from another object higher in the Notes class hierarchy.
NotesSession and NotesUIWorkspace are object classes that can be created
externally. We can access these two classes directly from Visual Basic using
the CreateObject function. NotesSession and NotesUIWorkspace are at the
highest level of the hierarchy. Other object classes are dependent object
classes, and can be accessed only by using a method or a property of one of
the two classes.
In our previous example, Create Document, we created the externally
creatable object session first. Then we used a method of the session type
object to access the lower-level class db.
Let’s look at some examples:
Example
This example accesses the current document in Notes Workspace.
Dim workspace As Object
Dim UIdoc as Object
set workspace = CreateObject ("Notes.NotesUIWorkspace")
set UIdoc = workspace.CurrentDocument()
To access the current document (NotesUIDocument object) in Visual Basic,
we first need to get a reference from NotesUIWorkspace. Then we use the
CurrentDocument property of the NotesUIWorkspace class to get the
reference to the NotesUIDocument class. We declare workspace as an object
which references NotesUIWorkspace. We declare UIdoc as an object which
references NotesUIDocument.
Dim workspace As Object
Dim UIdoc As Object
Create an externally creatable object.
set workspace = CreateObject ("Notes.NotesUIWorkspace")
Use the externally creatable object to access a lower-level object doc.
set UIdoc = workspace.CurrentDocument()
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