Application.Solidworks and GetObject(, "Sldworks.Application") not grabbing current running SolidWorks application

I'm running VB from the built-in VB editor in SolidWorks. Using either of the "standard" methods does not work for me. I'm running SW 2015 SP 5.0 on Win 7.

Trying to catch this state with

    If swApp is Nothing Then

          MsgBox "No active SW instance"

     End If

But nothing happens.

SolidworksApi macros