Crystal Reports 11.5 ActiveX control to use to execute a report

Question

Hi.  I need to execute a crystal report from a 4GL tool named LANSA.  I just need to know what ActiveX I should use to execute a report based on its file name (e.g. filename.rpt).  Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Hmm. I don't know how these things appear in LANSA. But maybe relating it to VB may help. In VB, the craxdrt.dll is seen as:
Crystal Reports ActiveX Designer Runtime Library 11.5
The registry key (not sure if htis will be of any help...) craxdrt.dll of version 11.5 is under:
HKLM\software\classes\CLSID\{0BC59388-6740-4D7E-B7D9-B5F20EEABDCD}inprocserver32
Another thing to try is code along the lines of:
Create the CR Object loCr = CREATEOBJECT("CrystalRuntime.Application";)
The above is for Foxpro, but it may give you an idea.
In C++ the code is something like this:
#import "c:\program files\business objects\common\3.5\bin\craxdrt.dll"; no_namespace
One other thing. In a "water  cooler" type of discussion, someone mentioned that LANSA is an OEM partner. Perhaps contacting them directly may also help.
Oh, and all of the above assumes that craxdrt.dll is actually insalled... Check in c:\program files\business objects\common\3.5\bin\ to make sure it is there. If it is, re-registering it may be a good idea too.
Ludek