>>>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.
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>>>>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.
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>>This control doesn't display anything and has no visual elements when instantiated. Is there any way I can verify that this is indeed what's going on?
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>Does it work if you build it into a COM EXE?
Yes. I guess that's my answer :)
Using COM EXE kills my ability to multithread.
Bummer. I really need to speed up this process.
Brandon Harker
Sebae Data Solutions