Beginners ActiveX problem.

[sbrandwood]

I am setting up a few dynamic web pages for our clients to view their data from the comfort of their own offices.

This involves an ActiveX control on a HTML page. I am just wondering how to go about getting the users looking at our ActiveX control. At the moment they can see the web page fine as long as it is the control is registered at their site. Is this right?

I would have thought that it would not matter what is registered at their site.

I am also unsure about where the data control will point when the page is viewed across the web.

As you can guess I am pretty new to all this crazy crap so any help you can lend will be really apreciated.

Thank you for you time,

SB

[Lothar Haensler]

after you write your ActiveX control create a Cabinet file using the Package and deployment wizard.
Specify the CABFile location as part of the <object> tag in your html page (CODEBASE als CLASSID).
Thus, whenever someone loads your HTML page the browser (ideally Internet Explorer) will check whether your OCX is installed and, if it isn't IE will download the cab file, extract it and install your component (aka Internet component download).

[sbrandwood]

That sounds like something I should be doing...I'll give that a try.

What I really need to know is how to get the control pointing at my database when the user loads to page containing the control. At the moment it seems to be looking locally for the DB.

SB