>>I am having a problem distinguishing how an OCX is registered differently on my developer [design-time] machine and on an end-user's [run-time] machine.
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>The design-time licence is, in fact, a .lic file that must be present on the development machine. The development tool can call a special method (which checks the .lic file) in the corresponding COM and, if that method says "Yes, it's ok to use me for development.", the dev tool will allow you to use that COM at design-time.
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>>By registering I mean the Win9x/NT registry. Are we talking about the same thing? As far as licensing, don't I have the license right to distribute the OCX with my app?
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>Yes. But you're not allowed to distribute the .lic file.
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>>And expect it to work as it did during the design?
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>Not if that COM requires a design-time licence.
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>Vlad

Ahhh! Thanks, the light has come on.