"There is no object in this control." 1

[seaport]

I got this error message - &quot;There is no object in this control.&quot; when opening a form that has a common dialog control. Also, all properties and methods about this controls do not work. Actually, this control works OK on some machines. What's the problem?<br><br>There might be two reasons, I think.<br>1. I may need to add reference about this common dialog control. (This reason does not sound right since I can not ask every user to add reference before they use my database on their machine.)<br>2. I do not have licence to use this control. (I imported a form with the common dialog control into my database and modified it.)<br><br>

 

[JimHorton]

The message is probably your first guess.&nbsp;&nbsp;If you open the form you'll probably see blank placeholder where the commdlg control used to be on the form. If you create a setup program, it will add the control. If not, you can put a few lines of code to add it:<br><br>put this in declarations:<br>Declare Function&nbsp;&nbsp;&quot;DllRegisterServer&quot; Lib &quot;COMDLG32.OCX&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp;() As Long<br>It's a good idea to alias this though, since the same fcn is in most (all?) ocx's:<br><br>Declare Function &quot;myownComdlgReReg&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Lib &quot;COMDLG32.OCX&quot; Alias &quot;DllRegisterServer&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp;() As Long<br><br>Then assure the file is in the system directory, and call it:<br><br>dim x<br>x = myowncommdlgrereg()<br><br>--Jim