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phil
February 7th, 1999, 09:23 PM
I am looking for the legal text that explians the restrictions on distributing VB's ActiveX's controls. Controls like flex grid and rich text.


I can not find where text that says I am allowed to or not allowed to.


Furthermore, does the environment matter. Some of my applications are Visual C++, but they call VB dlls. (Version 5.0 for both languages.)

Phil
February 7th, 1999, 09:23 PM
I am looking for the legal text that explians the restrictions on distributing VB's ActiveX's controls. Controls like flex grid and rich text.


I can not find where text that says I am allowed to or not allowed to.


Furthermore, does the environment matter. Some of my applications are Visual C++, but they call VB dlls. (Version 5.0 for both languages.)

Chris Eastwood
February 8th, 1999, 02:47 AM
Hi


As far as I'm aware, you can distribute any of the controls that come with

your edition of VB (professional/enterprise etc). You may want to check on the

Visual Basic web site at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic for more information.


I think that Visual Basic Books-OnLine that came with VB5 (and 6?) also has

more information on distribution.


As for mixed environments, that should be fine if you're using COM dll's etc.

Remember though, that you'll have to create Setup.exe programs for your VB

components to ensure that all the relevant run-times are copied to the machine.


Regards


Chris Eastwood


CodeGuru - the website for developers

http://www.codeguru.com

Nick
February 8th, 1999, 06:12 PM
The only exception is if you place the DBGRID control on your own activeX control : this is not allowed !