I dont know for sure if this suggestion will work with your particular ocx.

BUT....

a while back i was doing some work linking across the lan to a server running credit card authorisation software. i had to talk to this App using Winsock.

The control i used was the M/S Winsock activex control. i encountered a similar problem to you in that there was a connect method and a connect event. The method started a connection and the event was what happend when you get connected (or failed to).

i used activexcontrolname.object.connect to call the method & activexcontrolname.connect to reference the event

you might try this and see if it works for you.

i would be interested to see if it does.

regards
Colin Burton