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Sep 18th, 2000, 12:50 PM
hey everybody. i'm a newbie in programming, specially when it comes to activex controls. so i designed one with vb, and registered it already. i stuck it in an html page and it shows up fine on my pc.

the problem is, it won't show up in other people's pc's. can anybody please, please, PLEASE help me?

i will truly be grateful.
monte96
Sep 18th, 2000, 01:01 PM
Can you post your code? (Not the to the control but to the asp page).

There are many reasons why an activeX control won't show up. The most likely culprit is that your control is not signed and the eu has 'Download unsigned ActiveX controls' set to disabled in IE's security settings. But, it could be any number of other reasons which seeing the code would probably help to pinpoint.
parksie
Sep 18th, 2000, 01:02 PM
It's because they need a copy of the control. Use the Application Setup Wizard or the P&D Wizard to create an HTML page and the requisite .cab file.
Sep 18th, 2000, 01:13 PM
Originally posted by parksie
It's because they need a copy of the control. Use the Application Setup Wizard or the P&D Wizard to create an HTML page and the requisite .cab file.

i did deploy a .cab file and the html page. but when you unzip it, where should they save all the extracted .dll's? and in what directory should their copy of the .ocx be in?
monte96
Sep 18th, 2000, 04:11 PM
You have to use the <Object> tag on the HTML page and you have to have created a cab. The OBJECT tag will need to reference the cab file which is downloaded by IE and registered automatically. If you zip this file, there is no way that IE will be able to do anything with it. Except maybe display a download dialog and offer to save it to disk.
OneSource
Sep 19th, 2000, 04:38 PM
Billyboy, to see what M$ says about the topic, click here (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/devprods/vs6/vbasic/vbcon98/vbconhowinternetcomponentdownloadworks.htm).

All the best.
parksie
Sep 19th, 2000, 04:42 PM
I forgot to mention that we basically fixed this in a chat session yesterday ;).
OneSource
Sep 19th, 2000, 04:45 PM
Parksie!

All the best.
Sep 19th, 2000, 04:52 PM
i shoulda told everybody that parksie and i already resolved it via chat. thanks everybody for your help. hope i can return the favor some time!