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From: "David Botton" <David@Botton.com>
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Subject: Re: ActiveX in Ada?
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 07:11:42 -0500
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The DLLs can actually be regular DLLs provided the author included a
typelib, but in practice, I've never seen that. A bit of a surprise as it
allows VB to also instantly bind to the DLL.

Another common extension for Activex is OCX instead of DLL

If you grab the latest snap shot of the development version of GWindows,
there is a new tool (GBManager) in it that allows you to view all the
registered libraries / COM objects on your system and bind to any one of
them with a few clicks. You will find that even on a clean install of 2K or
XP that there are hundreds on your system.

David Botton

"Jeffrey Creem" <jeff@thecreems.com> wrote in message
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> When running on a dll, the dll needs to be a COM or activeX dll. Not all
> dlls are.
>
> If you are out "looking" for components, try to find ones that say COM,
> ActiveX or
> sometimes VisualBasic (since it appears that it is more likely that when
> someone provides
> some service to VisualBasic they create it as a COM object).
>
> As for the type library files (which can also be used)....They are rarer
in
> my experience.
>
>
> <tmoran@acm.org> wrote in message
> news:21wU8.1011$Fm1.92927342@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com...
> > I'd like to know where one finds the typelibs that bindcom wants.
> > Bindcom on the great majority of .dll etc files I've tried seems
> > to result in "Error loading type library/DLL".
>
>