Need message from ActiveX that runs in a thread

Question

I have an activex control, that I developed myself. The activex runs in a thread to make sure that IE doesn't freeze when its executing the long task. The long task is pretty much looping through 32K rows. Now while its looping I would like to display a message to the IE user notifying him about the row position. That way the user can see the process. Is there a way to achieve this?

Answer 1

Create an property on activex, and check it with javascript.

Answer 2

You should have your ActiveX control fire events that you sink, instead of polling.

Here is an article I wrote on how to do it. Sorry for the link, it is a lot of information. Basically you create an outgoing Dispinterface in your type library and call methods on that that you subscribe to via attachEvent() in JScript.