>>>I must still admit confusion regarding ActiveX/COM (I thought they were useable interchangeably) , but I suppose that will clarify in time.
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>>Jim,
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>>If you're not confused about ActiveX/COM, you're not paying attention <g>! ActiveX actually refers to just about any MS technology that allows different programs to work together. It kind of replaces the term OLE. OLE automation is now ActiveX automation. OLE controls (OCXs) are now ActiveX controls. FoxPro can create COM servers, but not ActiveX controls. Don't spend too much time sorting it all out. MS is bound to change all the terminology again anyway!
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>While we've had full time communists here, they've always invented mandatory terms to be used instead of newly forbidden ones. Like, you couldn't be a peasant, you had to be an individual agricultural producer.
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>I still have an Atari 1040STf, and I remember it had folders. Back in '88 if I said "folder", all the PC people laughed, because everybody knew it was to be called a directory and all of the directory and nothing but a directory, so help them M$. Now it's a folder. And it's not a database, it's a table. Etc.

Databases are another good example of changing terminology. We used to call dbf's databases when they were really tables. Now when you work with SQL databases tables are entities, fields are columns or attributes, records are rows, etc. If we don't change the lingo every six months, outsiders might actually learn it!