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


An ActiveX control will be like any native VFP control. You'll have properties and methods to control it.