Creating ActiveX control with VC 4
I would like to create ActiveX controls for my web site using the version of Visual C++ that I currently own (v. 4). I have downloaded the ActiveX SDK, but have found very little help in its documentation and have been unable to complie any of its samples. Can someone show how to create a simple ActiveX control, or point to some better documentation or give me a small sample app that I can compile?
Simplest way to create ActiveX control with VC++ is to use MFC ActiveX control Wizard. It creates shell for you and the only thing which you have to do is to draw wtaever picture you want and some C++ programming accossiated with your control functionality
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Where do I get the ActiveX control Wizard?
Go to application wizard and on of choices on the list is "MFC ActiveX Control Wizard".
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Nope, the only time the App Wizard even mentions ActiveX is in Step 3 when it asks what kind of OLE compound document support I want -- If I select server, it allows me to check off ActiveX document server. There is no ActiveX Control Wizard.
May be it is in 4.1 or 4.2 but I definitly used one of these versions to create ActiveX controls. Try to upgrade or look on MS web site if there anything to download like Inet or ActiveX SDK to enable your version to build ActiveX controls
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I am currently using version 4.2 and I have installed the ActiveX SDK, but none of the examples or samples with the SDK will compile correctly.
The book "ActiveX Controls Inside Out" published by Microsoft Press is your best choice. Besides, Visual C++ 4.2 and MSDN library come with some tutorials (under Visual C++ Tutorials: Circle: ActiveX Control Design an ActiveX control). You may query "ActiveX Control" keyword. Visual C++ Programmer's Guide that comes with Visual C++ 5.0 has the following topic:
ActiveX Tasks
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ActiveX support in MFC includes ActiveX controls and ActiveX documents (formerly known as OLE controls and OLE documents, respectively).
What do you want to do?
•Learn more about ActiveX
•Learn more about ActiveX controls
•Learn more about ActiveX documents
•Create an ActiveX control
•Implement ActiveX documents in my application
ActiveX Tasks
Home | Overview | Details
ActiveX support in MFC includes ActiveX controls and ActiveX documents (formerly known as OLE controls and OLE documents, respectively).
What do you want to do?
•Learn more about ActiveX
•Learn more about ActiveX controls
•Learn more about ActiveX documents
•Create an ActiveX control
•Implement ActiveX documents in my application
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telling me about the help topics in version 5.0 doesn't do me much good...
Version VC++ 4.2 ( may be you have to download patch 4.2b ) has in "new project" section menu item "OLE Comtrol Wizard"
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I do have the OLE control wizard... is it the same as your ActiveX control wizard? I have already tried to create a projecct with this, but the created .ocx file does not work on the web...
I can not find this documentation but as must as I remember VC 4.1 was able to create Web OCX controls but this functionality was removed in VC 4.2.
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is there any way to revert?
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crappy solution, but I guess it works