Not necessarily. If the control was designed to be dropped on a form, you're probably not going to be able to CREATEOBJECT it. But if it tries to display anything in a DLL, VFP will block and throw an error.

>Is that also why I can't CREATEOBJECT() the activex control directly?
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>Well that's not quite right. I can createobject() it but nothing on the control works and I get weird 'catastrophic failure' on anything I do.