>>I'm in the process of planning out an application in Visual FoxPro 5.0 that will need to connect to a non-Microsoft application in a Windows95 environment and take control over it. In the past I've used DDE for something like this but now, I understand, I should go about this using "ActiveX".
>>If I am correct in my assumption, where would be a good place to start in learning about this?? Are there some good sources of information available?? What are some of the pitfalls I should look foward to??
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>>Thanks for any input
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>Sandy,
> If the other application supports OLE, then cool, you should be able to do stuff with it.. If it is not OLE enebaled, how would you propose "Controlling" it??

The application is OLE enabled. In fact, they area recommending that I drop their .OCX file right into the project.