Use of AxImage

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Jerry Spence1

I noticed when adding Toolbox Items in the IDE that, under the COM tab I
have some Microsoft. Forms 2.0 Controls. I'm not sure where they came from
(VB2005, .Net 3.0??), but they have some really nice features. I used the
Image control and using the various properties made a nice button which gave
the impression that it stays down when pressed, and pops up when pressed
again. I haven't been able to achieve this with other controls.

Anyway, I deployed my application to another PC and took with it the
FM20.DLL file. As soon as I start up the application, it crashes with one of
those "Do you want to send this to Microsoft" boxes.

I find very little reference to these controls on the web which puzzles me.
It comes out as AxImage when inserted on a form.

Has anyone got an answer to this? Do I need any other file (Deployment
dependancy says not), does anything need to be installed on the target PC?
It has the same .Net framework (3.0). One clue is that if I deploy it on
another PC with VB2005 installed, it works OK which tends to suggest a
registration issue.

-Jerry
 
I noticed when adding Toolbox Items in the IDE that, under the COM tab I
have some Microsoft. Forms 2.0 Controls. I'm not sure where they came from
(VB2005, .Net 3.0??), but they have some really nice features. I used the
Image control and using the various properties made a nice button which gave
the impression that it stays down when pressed, and pops up when pressed
again. I haven't been able to achieve this with other controls.
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Forms 2.0 Controls are the Office controls - used in Access Forms for
example. You are not allowed to redistribute this dll. The end user
must already have it on their system - by installing office.

As for the button - you can use check boxes or radio buttons by setting
their appearance property to Button. Or you could use WPF - where you
can really style your buttons to look like pretty much anything :)
 
Thanks Tom

Glad I asked.

What is WPF?

-Jerry
Tom Shelton said:
Forms 2.0 Controls are the Office controls - used in Access Forms for
example. You are not allowed to redistribute this dll. The end user
must already have it on their system - by installing office.

As for the button - you can use check boxes or radio buttons by setting
their appearance property to Button. Or you could use WPF - where you
can really style your buttons to look like pretty much anything :)
Click to expand...
 
Thanks Tom

Glad I asked.

What is WPF?
Click to expand...

WPF is Windows Presentation Foundation. It was released last Nov. 2006
with the .NET 3.0 Framework. It is the replacement for Windows Forms
going foward. It does a lot of things, but one thing it does pretty
well is separate a controls function from it's appearance. Allowing you
to completely restyle the look and feel of a control, using Xaml (an xml
dialect) with out affecting it's functionality.
 
Thanks for that. I'd heard of it, but never really taken much notice. I'm
downloading it now.

-Jerry
 
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