Ah. A misunderstanding it seems. From the original message, I thought the problem was in the IDE vs. in the distribution. They are a different animal...

>Exactly. I believe there is a thread here somewhere about it also. I had to subclass it to get rid of the error when I distributed the app. Once I used the subclass of mscomm32, it worked fine in the distributed app on my clients' workstations.
>Tracy
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>>Hi Tracy,
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>>Are you saying you cannot drop the base control from the toolbar onto a form without error?
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>>>Did you subclass it before you dropped it on the form? That solved the same problem when I had it with the mscomm32 control.
>>>Tracy
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>>>>Thank u Jim but sory, it doesnt solve my problem. I still need help on this.