I am getting a Compile time error ,Windows module is not valid type (VBA,Macros).(CATIA V5)

Question

I am learning VBA with CATIA scripting(macros). My code looks like this

Sub CATMain()
  Dim oPart1 As Document
  Set oPart1 = CATIA.ActiveDocument
  Dim currentWindow As Windows 'I am getting an error here 
  Set currentWindow = CATIA.Windows
  Dim openWind As Integer
  openWind = currentWindow.Count
End Sub

I get this kind of errors with other collections too, some of them work whenever I make a new project library, but this one is not going away

I have tried to find an answer on many forums and even here we have some similar topics, but I didn't get an answer to my issue

Answer 1

Perhaps you have another "Windows" object type in your references which is making the definition ambiguous.

Try this:

     Dim wx as INFITF.Windows

Personally I normally don't bother with defining variables for the collection properties. For example I would just use "CATIA.Windows" whenever I needed to reference the collection of windows.

Also, if you have multiple versions of CATIA installed, or have uninstalled a version lately, it is possible the the incorrect version of the libraries are registered. This will cause errors like you are seeing.

So if you have multiple versions (or have uninstalled recently) Run "CNext.exe -regserver" from the exe folder of the version you want to use.