>Hi Doug,
>
>Age must be creeping up on me. Not only is this of course, the right approach, I had already started it a while back and completely forgotten about it. Ugh! But I do have a follow-up question:
>When the form containing the new controls tries to open, you get the Windows 'OLE not registered' error. What I'd like to do is trap that error, and then prompt the user to run the installer. That way the issue remains peculiar to that machine, not the user. How can I do that?
>Thanks.
>
>Luke

Try
   loX = CreateObject("myClass.ocx")
Catch
   loX = .null.
   Messagebox("Your message here")
Endtry