Detect When ActiveX control is loaded on the webpage?

[Ceri]

How Can i detect when an activex control is finshed downloading and loaded on a webpage.

I tried onload event but it was fired before the activex control was loaded.

any help would be great

[jim mcnamara]

You can try to get information, almost anything, about the window using api. It will return an error until the form is loaded
All ActiveX controls have a hWnd property. Let's use that.

Private Type RECT
    Left As Long
    Top As Long
    Right As Long
    Bottom As Long
End Type
Private Declare Sub Sleep Lib "kernel32" (ByVal dwMilliseconds _ As Long)
Private Declare Function GetWindowRect Lib "user32" (ByVal  _ hwnd As Long, lpRect As RECT) As Long

Dim Rec As RECT
    ' 0 means the call failed, the control isn't loaded.
    ' this loop will wait until the activeX control is up & going.
   While GetWindowRect( ActiveXcontrol.hwnd, Rec) = 0
            Sleep 5
            DoEvents
   Loop