is it posibble to embed a program in HTML

**royjacob** · Sep 12th, 2000, 09:27 PM

Does any one know how to embed a program(activeXControl) into a HTML page.

**Dim** · Sep 13th, 2000, 12:14 AM

I'm not sure of the answer for your question. But you might want to take a look into DHTML, it allows you to create and code a vb program like interface on your page.

Gl,
D!m

**Aldea** · Sep 13th, 2000, 02:30 AM

hello...the example bellow is from microsoft...maybe can help you:
Suppose you copy the code into wordpad,save the file as "mypage.html"....
In fact,this is a page which combine an ActiveX Control with ADO.

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>New Page</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<OBJECT ID="MSFlexGrid1" WIDTH=787 HEIGHT=159
CLASSID="CLSID:6262D3A0-531B-11CF-91F6-C2863C385E30">
<PARAM NAME="_ExtentX" VALUE="20796">
<PARAM NAME="_ExtentY" VALUE="4207">
<PARAM NAME="_Version" VALUE="393216">
<PARAM NAME="AllowUserResizing" VALUE="1">
</OBJECT>

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE = "VBSCRIPT">

Sub Window_OnLoad()
Dim MyCon
Dim ADC
Set MyCon = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
Set ADC = CREATEOBJECT("ADODB.RECORDSET")

ADC.Open "SELECT * FROM PRODUCTS", MyCon, , , adOpenKeyset

MSFlexGrid1.Cols = ADC.Fields.Count + 1

Dim V

Do While Not ADC.EOF
V = V + 1
ADC.MoveNext
Loop

ADC.MoveFirst
MSFlexGrid1.Rows = V + 1
MSFlexGrid1.Row = 0
MSFlexGrid1.Col = 1
ADC.MoveFirst
Dim MyResource
MyResource = ADC.GetString

MsFlexGrid1.Cols = ADC.Fields.Count
For X = 0 To ADC.Fields.Count - 1
MSFlexGrid1.TextMatrix(0, X) = ADC.Fields(X).Name
Next
MSFLEXGRID1.Row = 1
MSFLEXGRID1.Col = 0
MSFLEXGRID1.RowSel = MSFLEXGRID1.Rows - 1
MSFLEXGRID1.ColSel = MSFLEXGRID1.Cols - 1
MSFLEXGRID1.Clip = MyResource
MSFLEXGRID1.RowSel = MSFLEXGRID1.Row
MSFLEXGRID1.ColSel = MSFLEXGRID1.Col

End Sub
</SCRIPT>
</BODY>
</HTML>

**Joacim Andersson** · Sep 13th, 2000, 03:14 AM

As you can see from Aldea's post you use the OBJECT tag to insert an ActiveX control. You have to specify the CLSID parameter, you find the value in the registry.
The PARAM tag sets properties for the control. Just specify the property NAME and its VALUE.

The easiest way of doing this is to download the ActiveX Control Pad application. You can find it at Microsoft's site and it's free.

**royjacob** · Sep 13th, 2000, 06:50 AM

Suppose i want tp upload this page to a server so that others can use it, do i need to upload anything else along with the HTML page ?

**Joacim Andersson** · Sep 13th, 2000, 07:16 AM

Yes the ActiveX control. And if it's written in VB the VB run-time files!!!!

**joey o.** · Sep 13th, 2000, 09:03 AM

I only put a activeX control, not the library in my uploaded files and refrenced it as an object and it works great. Only problem is that users have to turn their security settings off to register it the first time on their machines and then reboot. If I include the runtime in the files will the page run server-side without any need to register? This would be cool but sounds like the runtime would have to be active on the server though. Any clarification on this?

**Joacim Andersson** · Sep 14th, 2000, 04:41 AM

An ActiveX control doesn't run on the server, it runs on the client.
That is the first time the user browse your web site the ActiveX control is downloaded to the client before it runs.

If the control is made in VB the user must have the VB run-time files installed. If he/she doesn't you have to include them on your server so they will be downloaded.
If you don't want to upload the run-time files you can (if you use P&DW) redirect the download to Microsofts site.

**CyberSurfer** · Sep 14th, 2000, 04:48 AM

My friend wrote pacman in VB, and has it embedded into his website perfectly.

http://www.andrewbanks.com/demo2.htm

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