Flash8.ocx ActiveX control help

Where is the documentation for the Flash8.ocx ActiveX
control? I am trying
to use the ActiveX control in Excel with VBA. No browser,
Internet
connection, web page, html, or JavaScript is present. In the
object
browser, I can see methods such as
Function CallFunction(request As String) As String
The only Macromedia site search hits for "CallFunction" are
in user comments
under a manual page for the External API. I have searched the
Flash Support
Center for the words "scripting" and/or "ActiveX". I have
seen "Scripting
with Flash". It is incomplete. I have seen "How can I use
Macromedia's
ActiveX components in my programs? (TechNote tn_12062)". I
have read the
"Support" paragraph therein. We have completed Flash8 Player
Distribution
License. Do we really need to buy a support contract to get
the doc's for
this control?
Thanks.
John Goodfellow

If the registration worked, then go to the front panel add a ".NET and Active X" -> "ActiveX Container" control to your block diagram. then right-click on it and choose "Insert ActiveX control". A dialog box will appear and in the drop-down, hopefully your OCX control will be listed (with it's full name, not the filename). Sometimes it depends on which specific control it is (which you have not yet mentioned).

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Patrice,
We use several Controls in our systems, I am not going to say it was always
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mailto:[email protected]
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From: BOURDON Patrice [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, January 29, 1999 2:39 AM
To: 'forte-users'
Subject: Ocx / ActiveX
Hello world,
has someone heard about (or used) a good ocx or activex library working
well with Forté ?
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Hi,
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You can find samples and libraries on http://perso.club-internet.fr/dnguyen/
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Url : http://perso.club-internet.fr/dnguyen/
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Hello world,
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