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Soft Failure for saying No to Active X warning or if Disabled in Security.

The following script works fine for me:

<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<script>
onload = function() {
var objXL = new ActiveXObject("Excel.Application")
alert(objXL.version)
objXL.Quit()
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>

Say someone returns "no" to an active x security prompt or activex is disallowed entirely, I would like the above script to have a soft failure...i.e. alert('Failed');

How might I do that?

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gph

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JimV_ATL

ASKER

I wasn't aware that Javascript had error handling. This works fine (in I.E. >= 5, at least).

<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<script>
function function1() {
try {
var objXL = new ActiveXObject("Excel.Application");
myversion = objXL.version;
objXL.Quit();
} catch(err) {
myversion = 0;
} finally {

alert(myversion);
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="function1();">
</body>
</html>

JimV_ATL

ASKER

GPH's is not the answer I was looking for, however, as he made the effort to repond, I'm awarding him the points.

See my comment above for the answer.

gph

Cool, I didn't think that would work.

<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<script>
IE5 = (document.all && document.getElementById)?true:false;

function function1() {
if (IE5) {
try {
var objXL = new ActiveXObject("Excel.Application");
myversion = objXL.version;
objXL.Quit();
} catch(err) {
myversion = 0;
} finally {

alert(myversion);
}
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="function1();">
</body>
</html>

I don't want any points for that because you found the answer

gph

to late :) thatnk you