Editing Artist Help:COM & .Net

These features are for advanced code programmers that whish to integrate Artist functionality in to their own code projects.

Artist exposes a COM automation interface with a set of methods for controlling it. You should consult your development software for details of how to wrap this interface. The interface is registered with Windows the first time you run Artist.

For .NET applications you can add a reference to the COM object to connect to Artist via the interoperability mechanism.

Method Arguments Description 
ActivateCue int list, int cue, int action   
AdvanceCue int list   
BlackOut int mode   
DeactivateList int list   
Echo int shout   
SetListAction int list, int action   
StartChase int list   
StartSequence int list   
Stop int list   
GetListCount int* count   
GetListText int list, BSTR text   
GetCueCount int list, int* count   
GetCueText int list, int cue, BSTR text   
GetCueState int list, int cue, int* state   
LoadFile BSTR filename   
LoadWorkspace BSTR filename   
CueListLock int list, VARIANT_BOOL lock