ActiveX Weirdness

[Scott2S]

OK - I converted and enhanced a rather large Access95 front end application to Access 97. It runs great on my machine but when I copy it to another machine, some tabstrip activeX controls don't operate.

Two out of three of the forms that I use the tabstrip control don't work, but the third does. If they all failed, then I can blame a file version or not having it registered, but just one not working???

Both machines have MDAC 2.5 and jet3 service packs. Access has SR-2. The only difference is that my machine has Visual Studio 6 enterprise edition installed, so it has a few more goodies included, but I used the standard tab control from the Access toolbox.

Any ideas?

 

[hennep]

maybe it was updated by vs6, did you try to copy your ocx to the other machine ?

don't forget to backup the ocx before it is overwritten
and register it with regsvr32.exe

 

[Scott2S]

Well, it looks like my references may be incorrect but that doesn't explain why it works on my computer.

I didn't know that you have to run a regsvr32.exe if you upgrade a file version. Is that true or do you only have to run regsvr32.exe when the file is new to that computer?

 

[hennep]

When the class-id from the old and new component differ you need to register, ODE tools automatically register all installed components but when files are copied manually i would always run regsvr32. It cannot harm running it twice