Hi,

For sometime now I have been struggling with using COM in Visual C++.

I want to use COM containment, as that seems the easiest, to contain an

activex control inside another activex control.. But I can't find ANY

examples of COM containment using ActiveX controls with a GUI! I have found

examples of COM containment command line (which I can do), I have found

examples of creating an ActiveX control from scratch (which I can do), but I

have found no examples of containing an ActiveX control inside another! Can

anyone help out there? The closest I have got is creating a Composite

control and inserting the inner activex control onto the dialog in the

resource editor, but this seems a bit rubbish.

Thanks

Matt

The simplest solution is to use ATL composite control. VC 6 has a wizard
for creating such control. Unfortunately, doing so in MFC is not easy. A
workaround is to use ATL's AtlAxWin in MFC's ActiveX control. Please check
the article below for a sample:

192560 HOWTO: Add ATL Control Containment Support to Any Window
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=192560

Also, ActiveX control and container is built on the OLE technology. You may
want to check the following article for a general guideline:

137555 OLE Controls and Control Containers Guidelines
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=137555

Hope this helps.

Best Regards,
Leo Chen

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| Hi,
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| For sometime now I have been struggling with using COM in visual C++.
|
| I want to use COM containment, as that seems the easiest, to contain an
|
| activex control inside another activex control.. But I can't find ANY
|
| examples of COM containment using ActiveX controls with a GUI! I have
found
|
| examples of COM containment command line (which I can do), I have found
|
| examples of creating an ActiveX control from scratch (which I can do),
but I
|
| have found no examples of containing an ActiveX control inside another!
Can
|
| anyone help out there? The closest I have got is creating a Composite
|
| control and inserting the inner activex control onto the dialog in the
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| resource editor, but this seems a bit rubbish.
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| Thanks
|
| Matt
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I have now got my ActiveX control almost working. I just need to get the
mouse down event sorted.

Thanks

Matt