I have created an application that creates a report with the help of an ocx (print engine). My customer has asked me if it´s possible to create a COM object that will enable him to generate the report on the web. For this I have created a COM-exe because the DLL seem to have a problem with the OCX. They refuse to do anything.

Running the COM-object from VFP6/7 works like a charm.
When calling it from VB6 I´m constantly seeing the message the connection to the COM-object is lost and if I want to retry it. The report is created.
When running the server with two instances of VFP I notice that the COM-object is not threading but the message never shows.

When both VFP and VB are running the COM-exe I get into trouble. What bothers me is that VB will constantly show a messagebox that the connection to the server is lost. The VFP session is blasting away but VB is constantly showing this message.

I have created a locking mechanism so I can avoid the two or more processes are generating the same document.

When calling the COM-exe from Internet Explorer nothing happens. I somehow get the feeling that the printerdriver that I want to use is NOT present.
What am I missing…are the printers available under IE? If not how can I force the COM-object to see the printer drivers. I need a postscript driver because I need to generate a postscript file that will be generated into a pdf-file with Acrobat Distiller.

How can I ´solve´ my two issues.