activex

Implement opening own links by own application

I would like to implement the following behaviour: I have a special media player, that is capable to play Internet streams (types of streams is not important, we can consider these are simply media files). A person X has a number of links to such streams, and the person will prepare HTML pages with the links according to my rules. The ...

Launch ms word template as new document from IE...

I have a requirement to launch .dot files (ms word templates) as new documents from the browser... Let me explain... if you click on a .dot file in Windows Explorer it opens a new document and runs any macros... you can right click and edit the template... I want to link to the files, so I use <a href="file://myserver/templates/letter....

How to collect Active X controls in the MFC dialog

I know we can enumerate the windows controls with in the dialog and using the callback we can collect the windows controls. I am looking for specific way to filtering out the controls based on interface implementation. For example, If the Active-X controls derives from interface IDataControl, I want that to add to my interest collection...

C++ Professional Code Analysis Tools

Hello there, I would like to ask about the available (free or not) Static and Dynamic code analysis tools that can be used to C++ applications ESPECIALLY COM and ActiveX. I am currently using Visual Studio's /analyze compiler option, which is good and all but I still feel there is lots of analysis to be done. I'm talking about a C++ ap...

AJAX vs ActiveX/Flash for browser-based game

I have been following the usage of JavaScript for the past few years, and with the release of extremely fast scripting engines (V8, SquirrelFish Extrene, TraceMonkey, etc.) the possibilities of JavaScript have increased dramatically. However, the usage share of Internet Explorer coupled with it's total lack of support for recent standard...

How to detect whether a control is standard or active-x control?

In MFC Application, how can we differentiate whether a control is a standard control like CComboBox or it is an custom active-x control? ...

Providing security for a WebService consumed bu an ActiveX control.

hi In my application An ActiveX control is consuming web service hosted in a web app. Here the web App is using Forms authentication for security. in the configuration i intentionally avoided the security for the Web service with location tag, so that it can be consumed by the ActiveX control. What if i want to achive forms authent...

How to force ie to load custom Activex dll

I have a requirement of making an svg viewer as activex.My questions are: How do I force ie to use my activex dll to load svg files instead of using Adobe dll?Whenever I drop a svg file on ie browser, it should open it using my custom activex dll and within my control I should get the path of svg file which is being dropped? How to dep...

Does the QtWebKit module within Qt support ActiveX controls?

I'm attempting to use QtWebKit (specifically, a QWebView widget) to display a web page that contains an ActiveX control. On my first attempt, the ActiveX control doesn't appear to be loading. I'm wondering if QtWebKit actually supports ActiveX controls, and I can't immediately find any documentation that gives an answer one way or anot...

Check if webbased CertEnroll will succeed

Hi all, for a project we will be doing webbased certificate enrollment, in Vista / Win7 combination with IE this gives some problems if the user does not import the root certificate first and then changes a lot of default IE settings (Enable ActiveX not marked safe for scripting etc....). I was wondering if any of you ever created a tes...

Facing problem in VB6.0 Activex Controls design.

Hi, This is dharmaraju, I am facing some problem in Activex Controls design. Kindly help me to resolve the issue. Problem Description: I have created a property mentioned below for a textbox. Public Property Let DataControl_Value(ByVal Value As Variant) Public Property Get DataControl_Value() As Variant This property is editable at d...

What is required to integrate .Net control with IE as ActiveX IE Add-on

Hello I need to develop a control in .Net that work as IE ActiveX Add-On. I have read many articles related to this and at first I'm confused about the terminology so I'm describing my problem/requirement in bit detail. The Requirement I have already developed working .Net control. The core functionality of this control is to read a p...

What happens to an ActiveX control (COleControl) after the call to OnDestroy() ?

I have an ActiveX control written in C++ that runs in Internet Explorer 8. Most of the time (approx 90%) when the tab or browser containing the control is closed, there is an access violation like this: The thread 'Win32 Thread' (0x1bf0) has exited with code 0 (0x0). Unhandled exception at 0x77b3b9fd in iexplore.exe: 0xC0000005: Access ...

How do I develop browser plugins with cross-platform and cross-browser compatibility in mind?

My company currently has a product which relies on a custom, in-house ActiveX control. The technology it employs (TWAIN) is itself cross-platform by design, but our solution is obviously limited to Internet Explorer on Windows. Long term we would like to become cross-browser and cross-platform (i.e., support other browsers on Windows, s...

Flash in VC++ Documentation

Hi I am trying to host a flash object inside an CAxWindow, I have managed to insert a shockwaveflash (SWF) and its working fine. I am trying to find all available API's that are available in the flash ocx. I am unable to find any documentation for the functions in the IShockwaveFlash interface. I know that Adobe doesn't have a documen...

Security Level for WebBrowser control

I am trying to migrate an .hta application to a C# executable. Of course, since it's an .hta the code is all HTML and Jscript, with calls to local ActiveX objects. I created a C# executable project and am just using the WebBrowser control to display the HTML content. Simply renamed the .hta to an .html and took out the HTA declarations....

Embed WTL App in ATL ActiveX control

Is there a way to somehow Embed a WTL destop application in ATL ActiveX (ie extension)? What I'm trying to achieve is to create an ActiveX control with office files Viewer. As a base I have a desktop WTL application (written some time ago) which uses OOo v3 API to display documents. I have created an ActiveX project, linked necessar...

Key strokes in wpf window hosted in MFC ActiveX running in Internet Explorer

We have an MFC ActiveX control created in Visual Studio 2008 with CLR support which creates a WPF grid and shows a WPF window within that grid. This ActiveX is hosted within Internet Explorer and it shows up and works nicely except that the tab key, backspace, function keys etc. does not work since they are handeled by IE instead of th...

ActiveX Control Drag and Drop in C sharp

I'm making Windows Form App in C sharp and best control for what I need is ActiveX Control (Calendar). The problem is that I need drag and drop but Control that I use does not have events for it (only positive thing is that it has property "AllowDrop"). (Control is Xtreme Calendar - Codejock) ...

.net activeX object

Hi, I am trying to use my .net image editor user control as an activeX object in a web form. After internet search, I created a asp.net web site from VS2008 and added the following code <object classid="res/ImageEditor.dll#ImageEditor.Editor" height="400" width="400" id="myControl1" name="myControl1" > </object> <INPUT id="...