📄️ USoft Developer and ActiveX
ActiveX is Microsoft's component technology. It is a set of standards that include:
📄️ ActiveX objects in the Windows Designer catalog
The Controls tab page of the Windows Designer catalog includes the following classes:
📄️ How to insert an ActiveX object
Before inserting an ActiveX object, first determine which of the following applies:
📄️ How to create ActiveX Control Columns
In the Windows Designer, you can create ActiveX Control Columns. These controls have the look and feel of an imported ActiveX control while interacting with a column value stored for each record. The control must have a bindable property if this is to work.
📄️ ActiveX Control property dialogs
An ActiveX control may have its own property dialog. You can access these dialogs from the Property Inspector by clicking the ellipses (…) button. Any changes that you make will be stored by the Windows Designer and displayed in the Property Inspector on the General tab page.
📄️ Using method calls with ActiveX controls
Automated methods of ActiveX components can be called to:
📄️ ActiveX Example 1: Creating a simple dialog that contains an ActiveX control
This example shows you how to:
📄️ ActiveX Example 2: How to pass values to and from an ActiveX object
This example shows you how to:
📄️ ActiveX Example 3: Calling a method of an ActiveX browser control
In this example, you will see how you can:
📄️ ActiveX Example 4: Creating an ActiveX control column bound to base column values
This example shows you how to: