Setting the Zorder of ActiveX Controls

Hi All,
Is there a way to change the Zorder of ActiveX Controls on a Vi's Front Panel? Some ActiveX Controls do not allow their Zorder to be changed, like the MSFlexGrid Control.
Thanks,
Ron

At the moment, you cannot move to the front or to the back activex containers on the front panel. The only workaround I can think of is to place the containers on a tab control. You will not be able to see both containers at the same time but you get the flexability of changing the order of the containers programatically.
Jeremy Braden
National Instruments

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Attachments:
spreadsheet 9 test.vi ‏41 KB

Jack J. wrote:
Hey Gary,
What version of MS Office does the 9.0 ActiveX control come with. I have version 11.0 here. I could get your program working on my computer but I had to reinitialize the activex control to the 11.0 control. I also had to reselect the properties. All the properties are essentially the same except Value. In this ActiveX version, I see the Value2 property (the Value property does not exist). And your method of reading and writing to the Value2 property handles 2D arrays.
If you can tell me what version of Office you are using, I will try to find a computer with that version and try your program.
Jack J.
Applications Engineer
National Instruments
Most of the computers have Office 2000 which uses the Value property and the Spreadsheet 9.0 control. I too have been able to duplicate it ona computer with Office 2000 (Spreadsheet 11.0). I think it may just be a functionality of the Excel version though for some reason if I use Excel and go through the song and dance with the methods and properties, I get to the Value2 property.
After writing that it seems weird that using Excel properties and methods gets me to the point where I can select the Value2 method and read/write accordigly, but with the Spreadsheet 9.0 control (which, I assume is simply embedding Excel in the app) I get to a different set of properties. Perhps Spreadsheet 10 (or 11) is on the computer but not showing up? That's the only sensible conclusion I can come to, though it seems weird for it to not show up on multiple computers which effectively kills that idea anyway.
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Attachments:
Programatically set value of control.vi ‏9 KB

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go on brains!!!
THANX,
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Hello,
Here is what Wikipedia states for ActiveX:
ActiveX is a software framework created by Microsoft that
adapts its earlier Component Object Model (COM) and Object
Linking and Embedding (OLE) technologies for content downloaded from a network, particularly in the context of the World
Wide Web.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-msdn1_1-0" style="line-height:1;font-size:11.19px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;">[1]</sup> It
was introduced in 1996 and is commonly used in its Windows operating system.
In principle it is not dependent on Microsoft Windows, but in practice, most ActiveX controls require either Microsoft Windows or a Windows emulator. Most also require the client to be running on Intel x86 hardware, because they contain compiled code.<sup
class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" style="line-height:1;font-size:11.19px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;">[2]</sup>
Many Microsoft Windows applications — including many of those from Microsoft itself, such as Internet
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Solved!
Go to Solution.

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