Newbie question about registering an ocx 2

[tlindsay42]

I'm installing a legacy program on a 2000 machine that I'm building, and it requires some ocx files like vsspell6 which self-registered and tdbg32 which did not. How do I register tdbg32?

Forgive my ignorance, for I am new to the tech world. Any information will result in my undying appreciation because this is the first of an entire dept that I have to update.
-Troy

 

[LazyMe]

If it's not selfregisterable, it probably is a plain dll, or not? In that case, just put it in the PATH or in the same directory as the legacy program.

Greetings,
Rick

 

[tlindsay42]

Sorry I didn't mention this in the first post- both VSSpell6 and TDBG32 are ActiveX controls (OCX). I just thought to check the version info on it and it was made by APEX and that it is supposed to self-register. I still tried putting it in as a global variable and putting it in the program's directory to no avail.

The error message that I am getting says that it could be one of its dependencies. Any ideas?
-Troy

 

[LazyMe]

It probably says that it's missing one of its dependencies, which means that the tdbg32.ocx itself is depending on other com servers as well, which are not registered.

Greetings,
Rick

 

[tlindsay42]

So with no clue what that could possibly be, then there's no way out of this pickle, right?

 

[LazyMe]

If there's no way to find what dependencies exist for the tdbg32 ocx, you've got a big problem.....

Greetings,
Rick

 

[tlindsay42]

Luckily I found out who the programmer was and he'll be in tomorrow.

Thanks,
-Troy

 

[PetMel]

Have you tried registering it with regsvr32?

In case you're not sure how to do this;
- Open the windows explorer and go to where the dll is.
- Click on <start> <run> and then type regsvr32.
- Then drag the dll file from windows explorer to right after this command.
- Hit enter and you should get the message that it was registered succesfully.

 

[RichieSimonetti]

If you have Visual studio installed you could use Dependency walker to know wich dlls/ocxs are used for a given exe, dll/ocx themselves.

 

[tlindsay42]

I did try regsrv32 and unfortunately I do not have Visual Studio. I did find a solution to it a while ago or I'd probably be out of a job, but I forgot to post it. I found two versions of True Database Grid on the network that installed the required dependencies.

 

[RichieSimonetti]

download it here:

http://www.dependencywalker.com/depends21_x86.zip

 

[tlindsay42]

Thanks man, that is a cool program