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How to find out whether a class with a certain key exists in a collection -

Hi!

I recently ran into this simple problem - I would like to find out whether a class with a certain key exists in a collection (the collection is a class which acts as a repository of CommentStyle onjects in my application).
The way I tried to do this was:

strDummy = MyCollection(MyKey).Property1

If an error occurs, I would return False from the function DoesClassExist(MyKey as variant)

However, the application raises an unhandled error and crashes. I put the error-handling code in the collection class's Item Get property (On Error goto .._Err, Err.Raise err.number), put error handling code into the DoesClassExist function, but still no luck. I can of course iterate through the entire collection to find out whether a key exists, but it sounds to me the performance will quickly degrade with 1000 objects in the collection or more. Can anyone help here?

Thanks a lot in advance,
Stas

 

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