I personally use the "Object Browser" to explore the PEMs of an ActiveX/DLL before trying to find the correspoding help file or googling.

I used the VB6's "Object Browser" prior to VFP7 for the same purpose.



>Thanks both of you.
>
>The question arose when I wanted to find the control (if there is a 'common' one) that looks like a TreeView but also has check-boxes to allow the user to indicate specific choices. Much as is often found in software options installs or in software allowing selection of specific directories/subdirectories for inclusion/exclusion in some processing.
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>I'll start googling. I hope I can actually find images to show what they (displayable ones) look like.
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>cheers
>
>>Hi Jim,
>>
>>A very few are documented under VFP Help "ActiveX Controls overview". There are pointers to the associated .CHM files. Otherwise, start Googling :-)
>>
>>>Tools-->Options-->Controls lists lots of ActiveX controls available to me.
>>>
>>>However, I can't find out how to learn what any of these actually do (can be used for). I picked a few names shown there and looked for them (Index) in MSDN (April 2002) but they simply aren't in the index.
>>>
>>>Where does one learn:
>>>1) What they look like;
>>>2) How they can be used and what restrictions they have?
>>>
>>>thanks