ActiveX Designer Samples Release Notes

About the Designers

• Circle: A designer that shows how to implement designers with subobjects. (Right click on designer to add a subobject)

• Different Designer: Design-time portion of a designer that separates the designer & the run-time instance into separate DLLs. (Both Designer & Instance have user interfaces.)

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• Different Instance: Run-time portion of a designer that separates the designer & the run-time instance into separate DLLs. (Both Designer & Instance have user interfaces.)

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• Invisible Designer: Design-time portion of a designer that separates the designer & the run-time instance into separate DLLs.The run-time instance is invisible (the designer itself is visible).

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• Invisible Instance: Run-time portion of a designer that separates the designer & the run-time instance into separate DLLs. The run-time instance is invisible (the designer itself is visible).

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Compiling and Running the Designers

To run a designer

Each of the designers listed above has a named directory in the SDK. This directory contains a Debug directory with a fully compiled ActiveX Designer DLL. These designers (and their run-time components - if any) must be registered before they are used. To register the components run: 'regserver32 <component.dll>'

To compile/modify a designer

1. Insure that <ActiveXDesignerSDK>\Samples\Framewrk\Debug\AxfwD.lib and <ActiveXDesignerSDK>\Samples\Framewrk\Release\AxfwR.lib are on the link path for the linker. (These are the debug and release versions of the ActiveX Designer Framework. The VC++ project for these is in the Framewrk directory as VC_Framework.)

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2. Insure that the files in <ActiveXDesignerSDK>\Samples\Include\ are on the include path for the compiler.

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3. Insure that the files in <ActiveXDesignerSDK>\Samples\Lib\<platform> are on the link path for the linker.

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4. Load the appropriate project for the designer.
5. Compile.

To add a property or method to a designer

1. Add the property or method to the .odl file in the designer's directory.
2. Run the BuildTlb.bat file in the designer's directory. (This rebuilds the type library and the associated header file).
3. Write code to implement the property or method.
4. Recompile.

Note

If you experience any linking errors, try the Rebuild All command on the Framewrk project listed above. Errors may occur when testing on different configurations. Doing a Rebuild All generally takes care of the problem. (Make sure to put the recompiled libraries on the link path.)