Does Open Insight (3.7.2) support Active X controls? I want to be able to download table data to a PDA.

Bruce:

OpenInsight does not support Activex controls.

You can obtain the functionality by dynamically creating an html form

that drives the control. If you have IE5 (Activex means you have Microsoft stuff lying about ) then you can write a file with the extension .hta rather than .htm and Windows will open it as a sort of dialog box.

Take a look at using data islands, either tab-delimited or XML. You can have a .hta or .htm file that uses a static data island. Then you code looks something like

export_data=….'

OsWrite exportdata on 'MyIsland.dat'

Call Utility("RUNWIN","MyActx.hta")

where MyActx.hta is a static html file that uses your activex control to read the data island, transfer data to the PDA.

Search msdn.microsoft.com for 'data island', that will show you the syntax for that stuff.

Hope this helps,

Bob Carten

bob@winwinsol.com

e.g.

myhtml=…

This seems interesting. Is there any possibility you guys working with RevSoft to better document this, some examples in a Knowledgebase paper?

Richard Bright

Richard-

Microsoft has already created a KB article- it is

http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/samples/Internet/browser/simplehta/sample.asp

Hope it helps-

Mike Ruane

Why would one use Active-X instead of JavaScript? arcs@arcscustomsoftware.com

[url=http://www.arcscustomsoftware.com/]ARCS, Inc.

Have followed this up - thanks

Paxton,

But isn't it JavaScript? I tried to extend the example, and I used (more) JavaScript, and it worked OK. But I assume IE/hta supports other scripting languages too, like VBA. (Or did people stop using VB after the I Love You virus?

- Oystein -

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