It seems that everyone assumes you can distribute/install 50 MB of libraries, DLLs, etc. Joe, I read reviews (FPAdvisor reviews 2 or 3 OCXs each month), listen to complaints & compliments here on UT and ask EVERYONE what they are using. Then I try it.

No help - just sympathy
Barbara

>ActiveX documentation is so sketchy I'm wondering how to judge what controls to use, which are better than others and what kinds of memory/performance hits are associated with various controls.
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>For example, I just started using the Forms 2.0 Command Button control (just so that I could change the background color!) and I found that I end up getting fm20.dll which is over 1MB - Whoa!!
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>Any thoughts anybody?
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>Thanx,
>Joe