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ActiveX is a Microsoft-proprietary framework for defining and accessing interfaces, to system resources, in a programming-language independent way.

ActiveX is a Microsoft-proprietary framework for defining and accessing interfaces to system resources, in a programming-language independent way.

It's used in many Microsoft Windows applications such as: , , , and .
These applications also encapsulate their own functionality as ActiveX controls for other applications to use. Internet Explorer also allows embedding ActiveX controls onto web pages.

ActiveX is a successor to Microsoft's earlier and technologies.

Projects, such as , facilitate developing plugins as both NPAPI plugins and ActiveX controls.

Other Related Tags: ,

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is there way to print pdf from html document

is there way to print pdf from html document using activex objects.
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Support for object tags with embedded ActiveX in Mozilla/Safari

I am using an object tag to load ActiveX extension controls like so: This works fine in IE, but we are looking into creating a port…
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How to initialize .NET objects from VBA that require initialization (arguments in the constructor)?

Does anyone have any idea how to initialize (create/access) .NET objects in VBA that require initialization (arguments in the constructor) or static classes? Argument-less constructors can be (more or less) easily initialized, but I had no success…
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WScript is undefined

I am trying to run a Javascript file locally, which is supposed to create a CSS image sprite using ImageMagick. It's part of the OpenID selector JS component: http://code.google.com/p/openid-selector/ The generate-sprite.js…
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INNO Setup [CODE] block, set status?

I have an installer that needs to install some visual c++ redistributables before anything else gets installed. This is because an ActiveX COM object wont register without it being installed first. I have the code that properly installs the visual…
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Trouble with ActiveX objects in HTA

I'm working on a chromeless HTA and found some code that allows you to minimize the window. It works fine when I run the HTA from a local drive, but when I put it on my network drive (so I can access it from another computer), it suddenly says the…
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Problem with MFC CWnd::CreateControl method

I have a problem with CWnd::CreateControl method while loading custom ActiveX control from the MFC application. I have list of Custom ActiveX controls which are implemented Create method inturn calling CWnd::CreateControl method. I am having Dialog…
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windows app live video

Whats the best and easiest way to play an incoming live video stream in a c++ windows application (visual studio 2010) and write some notes (eg. this is a blue ball) on the stream display? ActiveX? DirectX? Flash? I have Windows SDK 7.1 installed.…
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ActiveX Scroll Bar Slow

I'm putting together a spreadsheet that dynamically charts a subset data from a large time series. The idea is to allow the user to specify the start time of the data that is charted. This is accomplished using an ActiveX textbox. Additionally, I…
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How to fire value signal events in LabVIEW with ActiveX?

I've been trying to access cluster variables. Recently I learned that you cant do so using .NET Network Shared Variables and I found that people usually do this via AcitveX. Using ActiveX I am able to run any VI I want and change the values but most…
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Why is IE deleting an ActiveX installer while it's installing?

I have an ActiveX control that is delivered as a CAB. I have an HTML page that is just an OBJECT tag with the cab name and clsid (so nothing else on the page yet). This causes IE to ask about installing the ActiveX control, which I allow. It…
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Excel ActiveX Listbox not responding after making it invisible then visible

Can I have opinions please? I have a panel of user setting options hosted in ActiveX controls. Users make a selection and click a button. This hides the panel and presents results. Another button deletes the results and makes visible again the panel…
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Executing an application from active-x

I have no idea how I should solve the following task and I would be pleased if someone can give me a small advice at least. I've got old sourcecode in visual basic 6.0, active x browser plugins that start an VB .dll module to upload documents to the…
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Obtain Computer Name via Chrome or Microsoft Edge

The requirement is that we want to identify a device running windows 10 from browsers like Chrome or Edge. The unique information of a computer I have come up with is the computer name or Mac address and I know I could access these information…
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Microsoft Slider control - Duplicate Image

Whenever I load an excel macro file with a MS Slider control, a duplicate image of the slider appears on the top left corner of the sheet. This duplicate copy of the slider disappears on scrolling the mouse or shifting between sheets. How can I get…
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