Activate a (COM Interop based) ActiveX contol using registration free com
- by embnut
I have a (COM Interop based) ActiveX contol that I am trying to use with registration free com. When the control loads the control is inactive (does not responds to events, control not fully rendered etc).
After much search I discovered that COM objects using reg-free-com use the miscStatus attribute to set the initial state to get correctly activated. I know how to use it with a comClass which corresponds to a native COM Object.
1) What is the equivalent of the following for clrClass element which corresponds to a COM-interop object?
<comClass clsid="{qqqqqqqq-wwww-eeee-rrrr-00C0F0283628}"
tlbid="{xxxxxxxx-yyyy-zzzz-aaaa-0000F8754DA1}"
threadingModel="Both"
progid="SomeCompany.SomeOleControl"
description="Some ActiveX Control"
miscStatus="recomposeonresize,insideout,activatewhenvisible,nouiactivate" >
2) The COM client I am using is Visual FoxPro. If the (1) is not possible what can I do in VFP to activate the inactive ActiveX control. (I dont mind VB or C# input too if I can use it to find the equivalent foxpro)
Currently I tried the following
this.AddObject('OleControl1', 'oleControl', 'SomeCompany.SomeOleControl')
this.OleControl1.AutoActivate = 3
this.OleControl1.Visible = .T.
this.OleControl1.SetFocus
But I the OleControl1 gets focus before passing events like mouse click to its subelements. So I have to click twice on it to do the necessary action, any time it does not have focus. I would like the control to act as if the "nouiactivate" of the miscStatus value is set.
3) Is there any other way of accomplishing what I want to do?
Hans Passant, here is the listing of current Assembly.dll.manifest. The formatting in the comment made it unreadable.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0">
<assemblyIdentity name="Assembly"
version="1.0.0.0" type="win32" publicKeyToken="wwwwwwwwwwwwwwww"/>
<clrClass
name="SomeCompany.SomeOleControl"
clsid="{qqqqqqqq-wwww-eeee-rrrr-00C0F0283628}"
progid="SomeCompany.SomeOleControl"
threadingModel="Both"/>
<file name="Assembly.tlb">
<typelib
tlbid="{xxxxxxxx-yyyy-zzzz-aaaa-0000F8754DA1}"
version="1.0"
helpdir=""
flags="hasdiskimage"/>
</file>
</assembly>
