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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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How to receive ActiveX events in pyQt5?

I've been using pyQt4. I'd like to convert pyQt5. but, I couldn't use old-style signal and slot in pyQt5 because pyQt5 supports only new-style signal and slot. Therefore, I couldn't receive events from ActiveX. Please, give me solution. this code is…
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VBA Drag Drop From TreeView to ListView & ListView to TreeView (ActiveX Controls)

Trying to drag a child node only from a ActiveX TreeView Control to an ActiveX ListView control in VBA for Excel. It works occasionally, but something is wrong. I'm unable to consistently get the drag event to fire (sometimes it works, sometimes…
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IE11 on Windows 10 - "always on top" cannot be applied to a child window

We’re developing an ActiveX that runs on IE11. When running IE11 On Windows 10 with IE’s “protected mode” enabled, a child window cannot be set as “always on top”. Our code that sets “always on top” for the child window looks like…
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How to bind to DOM Events on WebKitX with FoxPro

I'm trying to catch the document.click event of a ActiveX-Browsercontrol in Foxpro. It works with the default BrowserOLE and this approach (at the bottom). However, we need to have more Html5 compatibility and I am using WebKitX - ActiveX now.…
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make my activex control removable from manage addons

I have an activex control. I want my users to be able to remove it. This MS article implies that you can remove controls if you installed them yourself: You can only delete ActiveX controls that you have downloaded and installed. You can't…
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ActiveX issue in PowerPoint

We have written an ActiveX control using C# to use it in Microsoft PowerPoint. The control has following Title: 'Test Viewer'. When I place the control in PowerPoint in edit mode, I see the title in control. But when I print the slide, it show me a…
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Windows Application is Crashed due to Multiple ActiveX Objects

An ActiveX Control was used in Windows Form Application with sinlge object was shared during the application scope. The application is updated to have multiple objects of that ActiveX Control in various child forms of application. After the update,…
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ASP.NET form's data encryption without SSL

Normally, if I complete a form, the data will be sent to the server as raw plain text which could be read by sniffers. I want to encrypt form's data client-side (like username, password,...) and then send them to the server. It seems that there are…
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Excel VBA - ActiveX Listbox Behavior - Selections being cleared

I am trying to figure out an issue with a pair of ActiveX Multi-select listboxes. These listboxes are on different sheets, but I have them set up to sync values on mouse-up between the two. These call a function to sync the two, and then update a…
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Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects Error

I'm referencing the following dll in a VB6 dll I'm creating: Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects 2.8 Library After making the VB6 dll, it works fine, but on other people's computers, the following error pops up: Run-time error '429' ActiveX component…
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Firefox Plugin Domain Restriction - Similar to IE's SiteLock

I would like to know if there is any functionality in the Gecko SDK/NPAPI that would allow me to restrict a plugin-usage to restricted domains only. Exactly like SiteLock for IE does with ActiveX components. Any similar implementation in NPAPI, for…
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How to import data from EViews to MATLAB directly (without writing anything to disk)

I would like to import data from an EViews (point-and-click econometric software which I am regrettably forced to use) database directly into MATLAB without writing any temporary files to disk. Of course it is straightforward to export a series to…
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Memory issue with VB 6 active x component and C DLL

We have a legacy application that has been running successfully for many years. It is a VB 6 activex component that we use to call a dll written with C. The vb component is called by a vb (desktop) application and is also called using classic…
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Runtime error 429 When trying to create ActiveX component

Runtime Error 429 -ActiveX Component Can't Create Object This error comes up when my program executes the following lines. Private WithEvents CommClient As XXcommClient Private Sub Class_Initialize() 'Initializes the CommClient object. …
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There is some inconsistency if I create a dll in C# on win 7 64bit and then want to use on WinXP 32bit?

I'm trying to develop a DLL in C# on Win7 64-bit, and then use VB6 WinXP 32bit, but when add the library in VB6, I get Error 429, "ActiveX component cant create object" . So I wanted to ask if there is a possibility of incompatibility with WinXP…
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