Active X Control Pad?

So i read this book called VBScript and ActiveX wizardy. Its fairly old like 1997.
I took a Visual Basic course a while ago in the hopes it would tell me how to incorporate VB into web pages (i didnt know this was obviously VBScript, not regular Visual Basic). Well the class was informative.
So later i find this book and im like "yeah finally ill learn how to use that knowledge in webpages". Mainly i like the thought of manipulating a 'label' like you do in vb but do it on a webpage. Sure enough it tells me in the book you can do this with an activeX label.
Now it spits long gibberish on the page, like 10 lines of parameters and such, to make this label. It says dont worry about that cause you can just download this awesome utility called ActiveX Control Pad to do that for me...but i cant find it at all.

I am thinking that this is out of date and there is a newer way to do it. Is there a new control pad out there or something else (also free) that does it better. At least is there a reference to what activeX controls are out there for webpages (i mean standard with browsers..it mentioned these were IE3 compatible or something..) and parameters for them.

Sorry i seem like such a n00b but any assistance would be appreciated. :)

No one? this must be one of those dead forums :(

It is pretty much an obsolete book.

I don't think you can even get that utility anymore.

If you are looking to add ActiveX controls to a web page, get yourself Visual Interdev 6 (Part of Visual Studio). It allows you to simply drag and drop ActiveX controls onto the page and modify their properties.

thanks a lot!

Now they wouldnt happen to have a free version of that would they? :p

We have visual studio on my campus but i didnt see that particular part of it, so maybe that is outdated too =(

Well, Visual Interdev is only part of the picture.. You will also need PWS (Personal Web Server) or IIS (Internet Information Server) to connect to in order to open a project in VI6. Interdev is an IDE just like VB or VC++ that is part of Visual Studio 6. That doesn't mean, that it is always installed. It is optional to install so maybe they didn't..

Nevermind, i just picked stuff out of the book and hand coded the controls i needed. Wasnt too hard except the way the colors are. What the heck color system is that??

If you mean HTML color codes, they are hexadecimal representations of RGB colors. Each pair of values corresponds to red green or blue. #FF0000 is all Red, #00FF00 is all green, and #0000FF is all blue. You can also use named color values that most browsers recognize such as "red", "Light-Blue", "Light-Yellow" among many others...

the following taken from http://www.mcpmag.com/members/97marapr/oe3main.asp


.....you can also download the freebie at ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/developr/msdn/cpad. The most recent copy at the time of this writing was posted on January 20. You’ll need the latest version of Internet Explorer 3.0 and at least 12M of RAM and 10M of free disk space. The self-extracting ZIP file is 2.73M.