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Title: ActiveX tutorials in the Source Code Forum
Post by: Jose Roca on November 14, 2004, 03:44:59 AM
I have started to post some small tutorials in the Source Code Forum to help you to get started using ActiveX controls with FireFly. I hope that you find them useful. If you have any comments post them here or open a new thread.
Title: ActiveX tutorials in the Source Code Forum
Post by: Haakon Birkeland on November 14, 2004, 07:42:13 AM
They look neat, nice and easy to follow. Many thanks Lord Roca.  I most certainly will enjoy diving into playing through your tutorials! :D

Quote(Internet Explorer must be installed in your computer).
One question though; What if IE by any chance actually has been removed/uninstalled. Would the (only) safe way to check for the wanted/needed browsing capabilities on the current system be to verify the existence of "SHDOCVW.DLL", or..? Would you care to elaborate your thoughts on OCX related error handling.

Guess I should just check it out for myself, but you might have an answer in hand already, and others might benefit from knowing alittle about this too. As for VB, I recall it just ran fine until the form issuing a need for the missing OCX was loaded..
Title: ActiveX tutorials in the Source Code Forum
Post by: Jose Roca on November 14, 2004, 02:03:18 PM
The best way to know if the control has been initialized is to use ISOBJECT.

IF ISFALSE ISOBJECT(DISPATCH_FORM1_WEBCONTROL) THEN   ' Failed