Kutty said:
I dont have clear idea on ActiveX Control. There are many once I
check in MSACCESS. How can we know what is the exact use of each one
? Is there
any tutorial about this? pleaase tell me. Would appreciate your
great favor.
(e-mail address removed)
ActiveX controls are COM objects that are registered in Windows. The list you
see in Access shows every registered ActiveX object, but the vast majority of
them cannot be used in Access. Many of them in fact can only be used by the
software package that installed and registered them.
Those that *are* intended to be used by other programs will have documentation
or help files that were installed as part of the package (if you're lucky). For
example...installing Acrobat reader will register an ActiveX control for viewing
PDF files. That control will show up in the Access list and you can even use it
in an Access form, but the folks at Adobe will tell you that the only accepted
use of that control is within Internet Explorer and that any other use is not
supported. Many of the controls will simply not do anything at all in Access or
raise an error message.
