RE: ActiveX issue

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From: mcmg (mcmg_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/09/04


Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 09:11:01 -0700

Sorry, got an error when I posted this yesterday but didn't realize it still
went through. Will reply to yesterdays post as it had a couple of replies.

"mcmg" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm not sure this is the right place to post this, but hopefully somebody
> can point me in the right direction.
>
> I wrote a fairly simple ActiveX control in VB6 and added it to my html page
> in Frontpage. Problem is it works fine on most machines but on 1 out of 3 or
> 4 machines IE crashes.
>
> On 2 machines I have the same version of Frontpage (2002 sp2), IE
> (6.0.2800.1106.xpsp2.030422-1633(Q867801)) and windows (xp sp1), all IE
> settings identical, all dependency files identical, and yet one works and one
> doesn't. Also, the ActiveX was properly registered on both (as far as I can
> tell, no errors and all the reg entries are the same) and all dependencies
> for the ActiveX control are present.
>
> On the machine that works, if I open Frontpage and insert my ActiveX control
> into a new html page I can see my control (both in normal view and preview),
> and everything works fine. However on the machine that doesn't work if I
> open Frontpage and insert my ActiveX control into a new html page I only get
> the Frontpage ActiveX symbol and it doesn't show anything in the preview.
>
> Any thoughts on why it might not be working on specific machines? Any
> thoughts on further tests I can do to try to solve this? Any other forums you
> could suggest that might be able to help me?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help,
>
> Mike
>



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