ACC97: ActiveX Controls List Doesn't Show All ActiveX Controls

• Microsoft Access 97

SYMPTOMS

Moderate: Requires basic macro, coding, and interoperability skills.

Microsoft Access does not display all of the ActiveX controls you have installed on your computer in the Insert ActiveX Control dialog box on the Insert menu or in the ActiveX Controls dialog box on the Tools menu.

CAUSE

Only those ActiveX controls that Microsoft Access supports appear in the ActiveX Controls and Insert ActiveX Controls dialog boxes.

MORE INFORMATION

Microsoft Access 97, as an ActiveX control container, requires a control to support a base set of interfaces.

To prevent insertion of controls that will not work in Microsoft Access, Microsoft Access uses COMCAT.DLL to filter controls from the list that require an interface that Microsoft Access does not support.

For example, the Microsoft Data Bound List Controls in DBLIST32.OCX will not appear in the list of controls to register or insert because these controls require that the Visual Basic interfaces for advanced data binding be implemented by the control container, which Microsoft Access does not support.

For more information about the ActiveX control interfaces Microsoft Access supports, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q164241
   TITLE     : ACC97: Custom ActiveX Control Features Supported in MS
               Access 97

REFERENCES

For more information about what ActiveX controls Microsoft Access supports, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q160126
   TITLE     : ACC97: Supported ActiveX Controls for Microsoft Access 97