ActiveX linking with SMARTbox...?

I would'nt say i'm new to VB, but classing me as someone who knows about it would be wrong as well. Im doing a project at school which involves building a car simulator. To use the relevant analogue controls, i have to wire them into a SMARTbox. THis device then can be shelled by VB, through a program called Logicator.
While researching the idea of ways to get VB to "talk" to the SMARTbox, i thought of maybe bypassing the logicator program totally, and therefore use an ACTIVE X Control to get VB to talk to SMART.
Could someone help me on this idea please, and if anyone knows of a patch which has been writtn, let me know.

Thanks in advance.

I have no idea whatsoever what a smartbox is :p If it's an external bit of hardware that comes with some software included to install, you could try browsing for it's installed Dll files fromt he vb project menu > references option.

When you add this dll reference in you could then take a look in the object browser to see if any methods or properties are exposed for you to call on in your code... :)