Usually, (it doesn't work for all ActiveX/OCXs) you can:

oOCX = CreateObject("MyControl.MyControl.1")

The string between "" is in fact the ProgID key that you can find in the Registry for that OCX.

This way, you don't need to use a form container, etc.

Vlad

>How do you instantiate and manipulate an OCX control at run time without first going into the form designer at development time and dragging and dropping the ocx onto the form.
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>I'm trying to invoke the 3rd party OCX control DynaZip in a prg file.
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>Thanks for you help. -Rick