the whole vbp thing is a ***** but it can be done to use an ActiveX you have to go into the registry and get the GUID for it and then put a line in the vbp looking like so
Code:
Object={063CC6D8-C221-11D0-AD30-00400516FF78}#1.0#0; FLOATBUTTON.OCX
but I hate to break it to you but The IDE is just that an IDE not the linker, compiler or interpreter it handles all the back end code MS thought a VB programmer was to stupid to understand or was in to much of a hurry to worry with it isn't called RAD for nothing

nuff said