General Question about Installing ActiveX

[Vince Teachout]

In my last exciting message, I had a bad feeling - as if there was a
disturbance in the force - or as if I was about to reveal my
ignorance. Relax. It's not a disturbance in the force.

What is the rule regarding when you do or don't need to install a
program in order to install an ActiveX component?

For example, if I use the Adobe ActiveX component, I know that the
client's machine needs to have the full version of Adobe installed on
their machine.

If I install the MS Inet control - they don't need to have anything
installed previously - it's works.


My question is, when do they need to have a supporting program
installed, and how do I tell the difference between ActiveX components
that need their "parent programs" and those that don't? Thanks for
any input.



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[Remus Rusanu]

Vince,
The best source is the control's author, who can document such details...
If you don't have such documentation, one good starting point is the Visual
Studio's Dependency Walker application. You drop in the OCX file containing
the ActiveX and will tell you on wich DLLs is staticalli bound (meaning the
Windows loader will have to found those DLLs when it loads the ActiveX
control). You have to learn to tell the difference between the DLLs wich are
part of the OS and DLLs wich belong to the ActiveX. Also, the Dependency
Walker cannot tell you what DLLs or other files the ActiveX might require at
run-time.
HTH,
Regards,
Remus

"Vince Teachout" <SendJunkMailTo@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> In my last exciting message, I had a bad feeling - as if there was a
> disturbance in the force - or as if I was about to reveal my
> ignorance. Relax. It's not a disturbance in the force.
>
> What is the rule regarding when you do or don't need to install a
> program in order to install an ActiveX component?
>
> For example, if I use the Adobe ActiveX component, I know that the
> client's machine needs to have the full version of Adobe installed on
> their machine.
>
> If I install the MS Inet control - they don't need to have anything
> installed previously - it's works.
>
>
> My question is, when do they need to have a supporting program
> installed, and how do I tell the difference between ActiveX components
> that need their "parent programs" and those that don't? Thanks for
> any input.
>
>
>
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[Vince Teachout]

On Tue, 24 Oct 2000 09:35:39 +0200, "Remus Rusanu"
<rremus@spmnotyahoo.com> wrote:

>Vince,
>The best source is the control's author, who can document such details...
>If you don't have such documentation, one good starting point is the Visual
>Studio's Dependency Walker application.

Cool! I'll check it out. So it looks like there is no hard and fast
rule. Thanks!

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[Dan Freeman]

The only hard and fast rule is that there are no hard and fast rules. <g>

It all depends on how the original component was built.

Dan

Vince Teachout <SendJunkMailTo@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 24 Oct 2000 09:35:39 +0200, "Remus Rusanu"
> <rremus@spmnotyahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >Vince,
> >The best source is the control's author, who can document such details...
> >If you don't have such documentation, one good starting point is the
Visual
> >Studio's Dependency Walker application.
>
> Cool! I'll check it out. So it looks like there is no hard and fast
> rule. Thanks!
>
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