Thanks Mark

Just one last thing. Is there a formal way of checking for the existence of a DLL/OCX rather than checking for the file(s)? or is it Ok to just do a REGSVR32 over and over without checking for it's existence?

THanks
Kev
>It depends on the actual error message. The most common is invalid license. This basically means you have a developer license installed on your PC but not on the end-users. This is usually caused by programmaticaly adding the control to a container object. The work around is to subclass the control by dropping it onto a form. Then you instanciate that subclass and work from there.
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>>Mark
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>>On another note about ActiveX controls, why is that some errors (ie 1426) come up all the time, and the error traps ignore these errors - what are they exactly?
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>>Thanks
>>Kev
>>>Yes.
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>>>>Thanks Mark
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>>>>So I just need the OCX?
>>>>
>>>>Kev
>>>>>You can run RegSvr32 in Silent mode with the /s switch. For a list of switches, type RegSvr32 /? in the RUN combobox.
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>>>>>>Hi
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>>>>>>I want to distribute an ActiveX control onto all the PC's that use my app.
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>>>>>>Here's the tricky part - I want it done automatically with as little user-intervention as possible, the main reason being that most of our users use the app on their notebooks as a standalone and some people use it on PC's running from the server.
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>>>>>>The only thing I could think of was to run REGSVR32 and put this into a program that would run before the app.
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>>>>>>Any ideas?
>>>>>>Thanks
>>>>>>Kev