9. Creating a User Defined ActiveX Control

2. ActiveX Control  placed in ActiveX Control Pad:

Open the Microsoft ActiveX Control Pad from the Program List.   It will present a blank HTML form .   Select ‘insert’ from the Edit menu.    You will get the list of ActiveX Controls in the alphabetical order as shown in the figure 6.   Click the control rproj.rform.   The control window and the property window will appear on the screen as shown in the figure 7.   Close the two windows.    

                             Figure 6

                           Figure 7

You will find the code for the ActiveX control written between two object tags as shown in the figure 8.   Save the html file as rr.htm in the desktop directory.   Close the ActiveX control pad.   Click the icon rr which you see in the opening window.   Immediately Internet Explorer will be opened and give a warning message  ‘An ActiveX object on this page may be unsafe. Do you want to allow it to be initialize and be accessed by script’.   Press Yes.  The ActiveX control in dynamic mode will be displayed in it.   You can now play with the directories and files and display an image in the picture box as shown in the figure 9.

 
                    Figure 8 

       Figure 9