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    Standard and ActiveX .exe projects: A Beginner’s Guide...Contd.

4.0  Develop a Standard EXE file, with an example

Now, we develop our Standard EXE application that uses the ActiveX component developed earlier.

1. Open Visual Basic 6.0 - it should be on your start menu if you have just installed it (Programs -> Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 -> Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0)

Open another instance of Visual basic, select the “Standard EXE” and click “Open”.

Fig:ActiveX-6;  Dialog Box showing the type of project to open.

Change the name property of form to frmTestActivex and caption to “Test form”

Include the following controls on the form:

Object

Property

Setting

Command button

Name
Caption

CmdShowSelVal
Show Selected Value in ActiveX Exe

Command button

Name
Caption

cmdCallActivex
Show Form From ActiveX Exe

Option button

Name
Caption

optNumbers
Choose Numbers in ActiveX Exe

Option button

Name

Caption

OptAlphabets

Choose Alphabets in ActiveX Exe

Select References from Project menu by going to “Project -> References” as shown in the figure below:  

Fig: ActiveX-7; References dialog box.

On selecting References Menu item a dialog box as shown below will be opened.

Fig:ActiveX-8;  References Dialog Box

Select the ActiveX Exe made in the above project and click on OK. In case you don’t see the ActiveX component that you had just made, use “Browse” button locate and select the component.

Refer to appendix-D for code to be included in Form.

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