Any chance that might be a NON ActiveX version of MERE in the future? I develop software that gets distributed to locked down workstations where users don't have admin rights to install ActiveX/COM components. To get my customers' IT involved in installing software takes an act of God and lots of butt kissing ...

Congrats on your MERE product - I continue to hear great things about this product.

Malcom,

It is possible to rewrite MERE as a DLL. However, it would take a bit of work to get the GUI rewritten to work in a DLL. I would also have to refactor how the GUI would persist or be created in a VFP Form. The reason it ended up as a DLL was because when I first wrote in pure VFP using GDI calls, VFP would not reliably provide a PAINT event to know to refresh the form. But, VFP does properly post a message to an ActiveX container on a VFP form.

The other thing that would have to be changed would be to create methods for setting the properties rather than simply setting properties. I have been able to run the ActiveX control without registering it on some OS's. But, I would have to revisit this again to see if it would work on XP with a locked down environment.

I would also have to find several extra hundred hours in my schedule as well for the rewrite and testing. <g>