ActiveX or Whatever

I want to update my itunes to itunes 7 but when i try to do it it says the quicktime control won't work and can't install it. so itunes can't be installed what do i do?

The internet toolkit is your best bet. It contains self contained VIs to do this, with the possible exception of dialup.
I would suggest looking on the example programs database or doing a search. Someone out there has to have something to do a dialup. If you have an external (serial) modem, then it is a simple matter of getting the command line. If it is an internal, same thing applies, but you may have to use a dll call or something. I am sure someone out there has done this before.
Don't rely on ActiveX. It is primarily for doing interface with platform specific, manufacturer specific applications on a specific platform. Using it is not only complicated, but also limits the application of your program. I ALWAYS try to avoid platform specific programming.
Browse NI's support and here for downloads that may help you. The folks here are always willing to help.
Good luck

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Programmatic dial-up using ActiveX or whatever with Labview.

We are trying to dial-up a internet provider programmatically to send data to a ftp site. Is there an easy way to do this? Basically, dial-up, download and then disconnect.

The internet toolkit is your best bet. It contains self contained VIs to do this, with the possible exception of dialup.
I would suggest looking on the example programs database or doing a search. Someone out there has to have something to do a dialup. If you have an external (serial) modem, then it is a simple matter of getting the command line. If it is an internal, same thing applies, but you may have to use a dll call or something. I am sure someone out there has done this before.
Don't rely on ActiveX. It is primarily for doing interface with platform specific, manufacturer specific applications on a specific platform. Using it is not only complicated, but also limits the application of your program. I ALWAYS try to avoid platform specific programming.
Browse NI's support and here for downloads that may help you. The folks here are always willing to help.
Good luck

FarPoint ActiveX Problem

Hi all,
i need help of u all, i want to place Farpoint Mask Control ActiveX on my developer form. it works fine in all respect but while i gona save the record it give error. "Unable to insert record". and it does not display any error. Any body who know how it works do tell me plz.
i am waiting for ur replies.
Email me at [email protected]
regards
Nadeem

What you must do is have a hidden field which is based on the column in the
database that you want the data to go into.
The ActiveX must not be a Base table item
Then on Pre-insert / Pre-Update copy the actual value from your activeX
(calling whatever method the ActiveX exposes to get the value) into the
base table feild.
On Post-Query you'll want to reverse the operation and copy the value from
the hidden field into the Mask control.

Excel Get ActiveX References.vi and closing references -- grrr

I'm new to ActiveX stuff, but eager to learn!
The "grrr" in my Subject line is a reference to how I feel about LabVIEW's documentation from time to time. I'm a dinosaur who came from text-based programming, and did a fair amount of C coding, so sometimes with LabVIEW I'm left with this awful feeling in the pit of my stomach like, "Good grief! How much memory must LabVIEW be hogging up in the background when I use this vi?" or "What happens to those variables (wires) in that subVI when it completes but doesn't close? What are their statuses when I come back in the next time?" or "What if I put a lot of elements into that array the first time and then started from element zero the second time and just put in a few? What has happened with the memroy that was allocated when there were a lot of elements?"
Today I'm stewing about this "Excel Get ActiveX References.vi," and what happens to the "ActiveX references" it generates each time I call the subVI in which "Excel Get ActiveX References.vi" lives. I think that at least one of the "ActiveX references" it generates when I call it is of the type Excel._Application. Then there appears to be an Excel._Workbook, and others. You see, I've used "Excel Easy Report.vi" to put some data into an Excel spreadsheet, and I want to tell Excel to do a "Save" on the open spreadsheet. I think ActiveX is the (a) right way to do that, so I'm wading into the ActiveX fray... But this "Excel Get ActiveX References.vi" says in its help file, "Do not close ActiveX references opened with the Excel Get ActiveX References VI. References must remain open until the report is closed. Otherwise the error 3001 will occur." Well, these Excel workbooks that get created by my VI could well stay open until after my LabVIEW VI terminates!
So (finally), here are some of my quesitons:
1) When I go through my subVI once, pointing to one workbook, I'll get one set of references "created" or "opened" or whatever you call it when ActiveX references spring into existance. Now, when I exit the subVI, is it going to automatically try to "close" those ActiveX references? I don't suppose so, since subVI's stay in memory until the calling VI closes.
2) Now, I come back into my subVI a second time. New workbook gets created, so I get new references. Ok, fine. Uh oh! What happened to those old references? I suppose that if I didn't somehow save them off, I've probably lost the ability to get them back (maybe I'm wrong, but I don't need them back), but is LabVIEW going to "close" those old references (from previous times through the subVI) because I can't get to them anymore? Won't that cause the dreaded error 3001? If LabVIEW is not going to "close" them, what in tarnation happens to them (the old C programmer in me creeping back out)?? Now it's some oddball, orphaned reference, floating out there, hogging memory, waiting to make something crash intermittently and be a debugging nightmare?
3) Now, here's the real scary one. I think I might dodge the "error 3001" bullet in questions 1) and 2), but now let's say the user closes my LabVIEW application while Excel is still open. All those workbooks are still open. Presumably, all those ActiveX references I was not supposed to close are still open. I really hope that LabVIEW is decent enough to close/erase/delete/blow-away (whatever the right word is) all those ActiveX references which were opened/created by "Excel Get ActiveX References.vi" when my program terminates. But, oh no! Won't the error 3001 come along then? I suppose I can just dump it in the shutdown error handling.
Well, thanks for reading my novel. I don't know what can be done with LabVIEW documentation to make it more satisfying to folks like me, but perhaps someone can weigh in on all my ActiveX questions here.
Thank you in advance,
Steve Brady
Solved!
Go to Solution.

You need to close EVERY ActiveX reference you open. If you don't you'll end up with some Excel processes running even after LabVIEW exits. You can see them in Task Manager.
I, personally, don't like the LabVIEW Report Generation Tool Kit for working with Excel. I don't think it's flexible enough. I have a growing library of VIs that I've written that open, manipulate, and close Excel. Some references I pass from VI to VI and some I close right after I use them. It all depends on what I'm doing. If I want to enter read or write data from/to a certain range I'll get the range reference, read or write the data, then close it right away because I have no use for it any more. On the other hand, when I open Excel or a Workbook I keep the reference until I'm done, which could be later in the program.
1) When I go through my subVI once, pointing to one workbook, I'll get one set of references "created" or "opened" or whatever you call it when ActiveX references spring into existence. Now, when I exit the subVI, is it going to automatically try to "close" those ActiveX references? I don't suppose so, since subVI's stay in memory until the calling VI closes.
2) Now, I come back into my subVI a second time. New workbook gets created, so I get new references. Ok, fine. Uh oh! What happened to those old references? I suppose that if I didn't somehow save them off, I've probably lost the ability to get them back (maybe I'm wrong, but I don't need them back), but is LabVIEW going to "close" those old references (from previous times through the subVI) because I can't get to them anymore? Won't that cause the dreaded error 3001? If LabVIEW is not going to "close" them, what in tarnation happens to them (the old C programmer in me creeping back out)?? Now it's some oddball, orphaned reference, floating out there, hogging memory, waiting to make something crash intermittently and be a debugging nightmare?
3) Now, here's the real scary one. I think I might dodge the "error 3001" bullet in questions 1) and 2), but now let's say the user closes my LabVIEW application while Excel is still open. All those workbooks are still open. Presumably, all those ActiveX references I was not supposed to close are still open. I really hope that LabVIEW is decent enough to close/erase/delete/blow-away (whatever the right word is) all those ActiveX references which were opened/created by "Excel Get ActiveX References.vi" when my program terminates. But, oh no! Won't the error 3001 come along then? I suppose I can just dump it in the shutdown error handling.
1) No, LabVIEW will NOT close those references. You need to make sure that happens.
2) You can save the references in a functional global or use a class but if you're not going to save them close them as soon as you're done with them.
3) Your user should not be able to close your LabVIEW application without it going through the shutdown routine you've created for your program. The ABORT button should never be exposed to the user and you should capture and discard the panel close event so your program ALWAYS shuts down is an orderly fashion. If you don't you will have fragments of Excel hanging around in your operating system and will have to kill those processes using Task Manager. That should only be a problem during development, not once deployed.
I used to program in C and Assembly many moons ago. You should have seen my first LabVIEW code. I go back and look at it just so I can see how far I've come in the last 12 years. I feel your pain.
Kelly Bersch
Certified LabVIEW Developer
Kudos are always welcome

How to call a LV.exe from LV via ActiveX?

Hi all,
I need some kind of atomic task, e.g. some (short) instructions that cannot be aborted. Calling a DLL, wait some ms, calling it again... And even an Abort via VI server shall not abort this atomic task but finish it.
I thought about building an LV application and run it via ActiveX.
Building the app is managed. But running it via ActiveX is still unsolved.
Have extensively searched for examples for this, but the only source I came up with was
http://sine.ni.com/apps/we/niepd_web_display.display_epd4?p_guid=B45EACE3DD6B56A4E034080020E74861&p_node=DZ52051&p_source=external
This one is about 6 years old and talks about LV 5.1, whereas I use LV 7.1.
Nevertheless I have performed all steps as described there, e.g. enabling ActiveX, granting privileges, enabled DCOM with dcomcnfg and registering my app. Finally I could open an automation refnum to it. But whatever ActiveX class I choose, there's no way to set a control in my app and to run or call it. Lots of mysterious errors (depending on what class I choosed), amoung them 5012 (exception occored).
Any newer instruction or another idea on how to get an atomic VI?
BTW, I am not sure if a DLL would do it, as it runs in the context of LabVIEW. I believe I need this atomic VI in a different context. Right?Message Edited by LuI on 06-17-2005 04:08 PM

Hi Lul
I create a small example to run an LV application an run it via ActiveX in LV 7.1.
To build the application I change:
VI settings => Run when opened => No
Application settings => Enable Active X server
to register the executable I only run it once.
Hope this helps
Manuel
Attachments:
example.zip ‏45 KB

Why when I open my Foscam camera, in Activex mode, I get no picture, and I click on Manage at bottom, but ger javascript:adminstrator0. Why

My Foscam FI8910W, opens after sign in, with three modes to choose from. Only the ActiveX mode, in IE, works to allow recordings to be made. Sometime back, just after I bought this new laptop, a free AT&T program with McAfee, is available for AT&T users. But this app, can only be loaded into Internet Explorer, and something wrong with IE, prevented it from happening. I contacted AT&T Tech support, allowed the tech onto my machine, and even he could not solve it. He then opened Firefox I already had, and installed some program, that made Firefox actually act like IE, so that McAfee software, could be downloaded and installed. It worked, using Firefox to replace IE, to download and install, but the print spooler on my pc, went bad, and would not work to use my printer. Dell tech also took control of the pc, found a complete Windows 7 reinstall was needed, and he did so. Now, the print spooler works, but the fresh install, did away with the software the AT&T Tech added to Firefox.
IE is a pain, but we need it, for some sites, like for the Activex mode, with my camera. I tried pening it in Firefox, in the ActiveX mode, and it opens, but with no picture. When I click on Device Management, to go to settings, I can't. What I get, is a small pop up balloon on lower right, that says 'javascript:administrator0'. Thinking maybe Javascript was disabled, I checked in options, and it is not, it's checked, thus enabled. I am on my pc, as administrator, so now I am stuck. Is there someone who can explain how to make it work, so I can use my camera in ActiveX mode, so I can actually record tings, if need be, when I leave? Thanks in advance. Oh, My Win 7, has the 64 bit OS, not the 32 if that helps.

Thanks for that reply. I know ActiveX is only used on Internet Explorer. But as I previously stated, the AT&T Tech who helped me download McAfee, that their website only allows downloads with Internet Explorer, and for some reason, IE wasn't working right, so McAfee was not available, but the Tech got control of my pc, installed some sort of software program, onto Firefox, that gave Firefox the same options, as IE has. When that was done, I was able to download and install McAfee, using Firefox, instead of using IE. Since then, I had to reinstall my Windows 7 OS on my pc, so IE now works, but is still a bother using it to RECORD from the Foscam camera. Internet Explorer, is the ONLY BROWSER, that Foscam RECORDS ON, using the ActiveX mode. I can view things with the camera, in Chrome, Firefox, Opera and such, using another choice, the USER PUSH MODE, but that and the other choice, Mobile Phone, will ONLY let you watch or monitor what is being shown, but you CAN NOT RECORD, if it's not in ActiveX mode, using IE. I hoped, that whatever the technician used and installed on my pc, to fool the web into allowing something to be installed, by FIREFOX, and not by Internet Explorer as it was set up to do, would also allow Firefox to ACT like IE again, and allow the ActiveX mode, to work in Firefox. Really, what I am looking for, is probably a patch, that adds IE abilities and runs like IE, to maybe get the ActiveX aspect, to use in Firefox. Maybe I am asking a lot, but I know Firefox worked as if it was IE, to fool the site into allowing it to 'THINK' Firefox, was really Internet Explorer. As for asking Foscam for technical support, I did, and not only did the foreigner get access to my computer, made changes, the changes he made, I had to uninstall, and reinstall the Foscam camera. Outsourcing tech support, doesn't help me much, when it's with someone, that ENGLISH, is not their native language. If I can't understand someone speaking to me, isn't very good in trying to get help. Again, thanks for your reply.

Word report with ActiveX

I would like to generate a report in Word via ActiveX. I found an
example on NI's site that should make it fairly easy. However, I
noticed that some of Word's ActiveX methods parameters have changed
between whichever version the example was written with and Word 2000.
(With Word97, the example runs fine, so it may have been written for
that version. If Word 2000 is on the machine, you need to reset the
method nodes the refresh the parameters list.) My problem is that the
target machine will be using Word 7a, installed on a server not on the
local machine. So I have two questions:
Does anyone know how stable the ActiveX interface was between Word 7a
and Word 97?
When Word is installed on a server enterprise-wide, and th
e computer
starts it up over the network, will the ActiveX components be registered
on the local computer?
Thanks in advance,
Dave Thomson
David Thomson Original Code Consulting
National Instrument Alliance Program Member
www.originalcode.com
[email protected] 303-499-1973 (voice and fax)

This should be pretty easy to do with the LabVIEW Report Generation Toolkit for MS Office:
http://www.ni.com/toolkits/report_gen.htm
In fact, the toolkit includes the MS Office Express VI, where you can specify a template document, and you can wire in whatever values you want inserted at certain bookmarks in the document.
Let me know if you have any other questions,
-D
Darren Nattinger, CLA
LabVIEW Artisan and Nugget Penman

Ubuntu 10 (Linux) & Firefox 3.6 ~ How to uninstall the Adobe Flash Player plug-in & ActiveX control

Ubuntu 10.045 (Linux) and Firefox 3.6.3 ~ How to uninstall the Adobe Flash Player plug-in & ActiveX control
In general Adobe needs to offer Ubuntu (Linux) support. I don't use Windows anymore and will go with whatever company provides me the Plug In's I need to function. In this case at the current time, I can't use Adobe flash Player to view You Tube video's. I followed the link that helps a user fix the problem:
Solve a Problem: The video won't play:
http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=56115
I then saw that you suggested that I first needed to uninstall any older versions of the Flash Player and then install the latest version of the Flash player. I clicked on the link find out how to uninstall it here:
How to uninstall the Adobe Flash Player plug-in and ActiveX control
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/141/tn_14157.html
They didn't offer any help with Ubuntu 10.045 (Linux). Please offer the instructions and automatic (non-terminal) uninstaller. Also, I want an automatic installer for Ubuntu 10 (Linux) & Firefox 3.6 that is easy like like you have for Windows and like Sun's Java has for Linux.
Message was edited by: u2rcrazy ~ Edited Title

You should go to this site to see what versions of Flash Player and Shockwave Player you have installed.
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/welcome/
The versions you are listing (10.0 r12, 10.0 r2) appear to be Shockwave Plauer versions, not Flash Player.
If you want to uninstall Flash Player, there should be an uninstaller in the install directory. I do not know where that is on Linux.

Handling LabView events in ActiveX

Hi all,
I know most ActiveX discussion here is about getting ActiveX to work inside of LabView, but I'm trying to go the other way around.
General Question:
How to I catch or listen to events generated by LabView (in VB or whatever)? And is there some kind of library of LabView ActiveX events?
More specific:
If anyone has ever used the Jacob libraries for using ActiveX from Java, how would I create a LabView event listener from within Java? I can create a VI ActiveXComponent, but I don't know how to use it to listen to events.
Any help on either part of the question will be most appreciated!
Thanks,
Sam

"SamF" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]..
Thanks for both of your replies, I'm pretty certain that it is possible to generate ActiveX events from LabView, but unfortunately those links don't deal with events. Those are what I used to get to where I am -- opening and running a VI from ActiveX -- but I can't find anything on generating events.If it really seems as though there is no way for LabView to generate ActiveX events (or just catch those that are automatically generated), then I have another question: Is it possible to use LabView to catch its events internally (using it's own events methods), and write to, say, an excel file everytime an event is generated?My thinking is that even if LabView doesn't throw events, other programs such as Excel do, and so if the events were routed through Excel I could catch *those* events.(BTW, I know there are examples of writing to Excel, but I'm looking for something that is *event* driven).Any help either on catching LabView events or using LabView events to write to an MS program will be much appreciated, as always!Thanks,Sam
Sure it's possible to build an activex server. No doubt about that.
If I where to communicate events between the LabVIEW code and another language, I'd think about occurrences or windows events.
There is documentation available about occurrence communication between dll's, cin's and LabVIEW. Never used it, so I can't help you much further.
The windows events are well documented in the msdn. They should be available in any language, though relatively simple api calls.
And you can always use window messages. If you have a window handler of the main program available in LabVIEW, you can use sendmessage or postmessage to communicate to it. The other way around is more difficult, but seems not necessary.
Hope it helps,
Wiebe.

Call LabVIEW Virtual Instrument through ActiveX Server from C/C++

I am trying to access a VI by C/C++ almost identical to the reference example that can be found on this site for Visual Basic. However, somehow, I am unable to succeed to use the ActiveX Call() function. The program always crashes, whatever I try. Because the Visual Basic version works without any problems, I hope someone can point me the error in the code.
Thanks!
#include "stdafx.h"
#import "LabVIEW.tlb"
#define VIPATH "D:\\Program Files\\National Instruments\\LabVIEW 7.0\\examples\\apps\\freqresp.llb\\Frequency Response.vi"
using namespace LabVIEW;
int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
// Initialization
HRESULT he = NULL;
he = CoInitialize(NULL);
// Create instance of
labview application engine
_ApplicationPtr pLV;
he = pLV.CreateInstance("LabVIEW.Application");
// Create instance of virtual instrument
VirtualInstrumentPtr pVI;
he = pVI.CreateInstance("LabVIEW.VirtualInstrument"); /* ?not? mandatory */
// Get reference to a VI at location VIPATH
_bstr_t viPath(VIPATH);
_bstr_t password("");
VARIANT_BOOL resvForCall = FALSE;
long options = 0;
pVI = pLV->GetVIReference(viPath,password,resvForCall,options);
// Show front panel
pVI->FPWinOpen = TRUE;
// Call the referenced VI as subVI
_variant_t paramNames[5] = {"Amplitude", "Number of Steps", "Low Frequency", "High Frequency", "Response Graph"};
_variant_t paramVals[5] = {}; /* VT_EMPTY */
/* Fill ParamVals with values from VI */
for (int i = 0; i < 5; ++i) paramVals[i] = pVI->GetControlValue(paramNames[i].bstrVal);
/* Call VI -> !!! CRASH !!! :-( */
pVI->Call(paramNames,paramVals);
// Release references and close application
pLV->AutomaticC
lose = TRUE;
pVI.Release();
pLV.Release();
CoUninitialize();
return 0;

This may not be the easiest way. Although i have not used _variant_t. But it seems like your VARIANT type is VT_EMPTY for everything. You need to build up an array of variants with correct type, that matches the type of control you are assigning data to like VT_INT for int numeric, VT_BSTR for string control etc
VARIANT paramNamesVarArg, paramValuesVarArg;
SAFEARRAY *paramNames, *paramValues;
::VariantInit(&paramNamesVarArg);
paramNamesVarArg.vt = VT_ARRAY | VT_BYREF | VT_BSTR;
// create safearray of strings
SAFEARRAYBOUND rgsabound[1];
rgsabound[0].lLbound = 0;
rgsabound[0].cElements = 1;
paramNames = SafeArrayCreate(VT_BSTR, 1, rgsabound);
paramNamesVarArg.pparray = &paramNames;
long index = 0;
_bstr_t paramName = "Numeric";
BSTR *bstrVal;
retVal = SafeArrayPtrOfIndex(paramNames, &index, (void **)&bstrVal);
*bstrVal = paramName.copy();
//do the same method for paramValuesVarArg
::VariantInit(&paramValuesVarArg);
paramValuesVarArg.vt = VT_ARRAY | VT_BYREF | VT_I4;
rgsabound[0].lLbound = 0;
rgsabound[0].cElements = 1;
paramValues = SafeArrayCreate(VT_VARIANT, 1, rgsabound);
paramValuesVarArg.pparray = &paramValues;
VARIANT *dispVarVal;
VARIANT tempVar;
tempVar.vt = VT_I4;
retVal = SafeArrayPtrOfIndex(paramValues, &index, (void **)&dispVarVal);
*dispVarVal = tempVar;
viPtr->Call(&paramNamesVarArg, &paramValuesVarArg);
Hope it helps.
A Rafiq

From JVM to Bean to ActiveX to VB

Hello.
I have to find a solution to access methods from Visual Basic. The aim is that i call in Excel:
=TestClass_ReturnData("Jan").
TestClass is a java class
ReturnData is a method, which require a string and deliver a string.
I found a solution with JIntegra from linear and this works great, but it is commercial.
After an experimental phase with JNI....,i found no way for my problem to solve it with JNI, now i have a new idea:-)
What do you think about this design:
-a bean communicate with a class (the class is runing in JVM)
-the bean is transformed with JavaBeansBridge for ActiveX and registered as a COM
-and now (i hope) i can communicate with the COM in VB
-finish (access from excel to vb is simple)
My first Question:
Is there an easier,free way to do my task
Second:Am i total stupid and my desing can never work
Hope you can help me, i work for over one week now on my task and i think i make no really step to solve it
With friendly regards
tom
p.s. sorry for my english, hope you can understand what i mean ;-)

I had to do something like this before. This is the solution I used, it may not be the fastest however. I had to ensure that the calling object was platform independent, but the objects calling excel were platform dependent.
Create your VB application to call whatever methods you want in excel. Create a RMI server in Visual J++ (yes I know!!!), you can then simply add a COM wrapper to your VB application and call the methods directly.
Write a client that calls the RMI server and can therefore indirectly access Excel.
I know it's a bit long winded but it works quite well and the client can still be platform independent!

I can not install flash player activeX

Hi, For some reason I had to uninstall Flash Player Plugin Istaller Active X and Flash Player. Although he has performed all procedures and automatic aid two days have passed and I can not install the Active X control As part of the 'install it I get a notification saying actual words (translated from Italian into English):
The Adobe Flash Player ActiveX is not attempting to install the latest. Visit http://......................player_it to get the latest and most secure.
This message appears just downloading from the site recommended and everything is really frustrating. My OS is VISTA64x Home Premium and the problem persists on both IE8 IE8 x64 x32.
Also stress that I have not installed any ActiveX flash player so why do I feel that I try to install the version that is not especially since the most recent discharge from the link that that message would you recommend?
I hope someone is able to say once and for all how to solve this problem.
Sincerly Jinjetto

Hi, glad that worked for you. Also thanks for the explanation as how you came about this. Yes, from my understanding any Install of the CS5, even a trial version Installs the 10.1 (beta/prerelease) versions. It is not clear to me or others why the 10.1 was used in the CS5 instead of the latest version (10.0.45.2). My only guess is that the 10.1 is very close to being released as a shipping version (final release) to the public. The 10.1 had a target date of the first half of 2010. Perhaps that was the reasoning. This is just my opinion:-)
As I said, many users are having this problem, not just with the CS5, but they Install the 10.1 thinking that will solve whatever problem they may be having with the latest version.
Your thread is very helpful for other users that may be having the exact problem that you were. For this reason if you marked your thread as answered, they would read it first.
Thanks,
eidnolb

Programmatically modify ActiveX/COM-step module settings

Would like to modify programmatically ActiveX/COM-step module settings (Automation Server, Object reference, Object class, method/property, parameters-list).
Can't find this in context. How this can be modified?
Thanks!
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Hey bestware,
You need to get a reference to the step: RunState.Sequence.Main["MyActiveXStep"]
Then you can use that to convert to the ActiveX module: RunState.Sequence.Main["MyActiveXStep"].Module.AsActiveXModule
Once you have that you can do whatever you'd like with it. You can read in the help more about this. Search for ActiveXModule.
You sould see all sorts of properties: MemberType, MemberName, ServerID, ActiveXReferenceExpr. If you read about them they are refering to the different things you want to set. For instance the ActiveXReferenceExpr is where you store the Object Reference. The MemberType is Call Method (1), Get Property(2), Set Property(4) or Don't Call(-1), etc...
So to change the step to be a Get Property step I would do this:
RunState.Sequence.Main["MyActiveXStep"].Module.AsActiveXModule.MemberType = 2
To store an Object Reference to Locals.MyObj I would do this:
RunState.Sequence.Main["MyActiveXStep"].Module.AsActiveXModule.ActiveXReferenceExpr = "Locals.MyObj"
Hope this gets you pointed in the right direction.
jigg
CTA, CLA
teststandhelp.com
~Will work for kudos and/or BBQ~

ActiveX in WebHelp

I'm finishing up a help file for end users who are prohibited
from enabling activeX controls. I read one forum comment that
indicates that the activex message only comes up when we're trying
to view our help locally. Is that true? do I need to publish to the
server before I can view it the way the end user is going to view
it?
If that doesn't work for whatever reason, are there skins,
etc that I can use that won't generate the Enable ActiveX prompt on
IE 6 or 7?
Thanks very much!
cya;)

I'm using x.5.0.2, (WebHelp) and just ran all updates a
couple of weeks ago. I'm not so concerned with what happens in my
browser, as i am with what's going to happen at the customer's end.
these customers cannot alter the browser's security settings, so
that suggestion won't work, if that were the case, the developers
would just force the settings in the install. the clients won't
allow it.
i suspect that publishing to our server and viewing from
there might alleviate the issue.
Thoughts?

My Macromedia Flash ActiveX Control isn't compatible with Windows 7 / 64bit

I have downloaded the newest version of Adobe flash, and it installs like normal...and I think it is working fine....but on some sites (even You Tube) and some software programs, I get this message:
Your version of Macromedia Flash ActiveX Control isn't compatible with this version of Windows.
I am tired of wasting so much time with this...I read on the net that some people compiled their computer to 86...whatever that means....but no one explained how to do it.
I have a Flash professional in ADOBE MASTER COLLECTION C6 / but all programs and sites default to the normal Flash player (that constantly gets updated,

I have a similar problem, Win 7 64-bit, I did a clean install*, downloaded latests (Adobe - Install Adobe Flash Player), and after restarting my computer, Win7 64-bit Action Center popped up: "Your version of Macromedia Flash ActiveX Control isn't compatible with this version of Windows" with no error codes to look up knowledge base. Like seriously, no one from Adobe answered this in 9 months?! And the steps in Common problems | Flash Player sound like I need to purchase support before I file a report?
Currently, my Firefox plugins only show Shockwave Flash 13 not Adobe Flash. Do I need to install Flash plugin for Firefox? (http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/current/support/install_flash_player.exe)
Thanks!
* as per How do I do a clean install of Flash Player?:
1. Add or Remove programs ... Flash ... uninstall,
2. deleted all files & folders in C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash, C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash, %appdata%\Adobe\Flash Player, %appdata%\Macromedia\Flash Player),
3. verified that the files “FlashPlayerCPLApp.cpl”, "FlashPlayerApp.exe", and "FlashPlayerInstaller.exe" in C:\Windows\system32\ (for 32-bit systems) or C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ (64-bit system) were deleted,
4. prepared to use Unlocker http://www.emptyloop.com/unlocker/ if any files couldn't be deleted,

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