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DonMeck

01-21-2005, 01:53 PM

Hey,

normally when I need to access something that is initialized later in the code,
I use (global) forward declarations. And usually it works. But somehow I can't make it work with an activeX control I'd like to access from several functions. :sad:

I tried something like this

macroscript ...
(

....
global myXControl
.....

function x1
(
....
myXControl.Add()
....
)

function x2
(
....
myXControl.Add()
....
)

etc. ...

rollout....
(
....
group "Output"
(
activeXControl myXControl "MSComctlLib.ListViewCtrl" height:400
)

....
)

---------

But I get runtime errors, as it says that myXControl is undefined.
Any idea?
thx

LFShade

01-21-2005, 06:18 PM

Rollout controls are always local to the rollout. Try forward-declaring your rollout instead, and then access the activex control as a property of the rollout.

macroscript ...
(

....
global myRollout
.....

function x1
(
....
myRollout.myXControl.Add()
....
)

function x2
(
....
myRollout.myXControl.Add()
....
)

etc. ...

rollout myRollout ...
(
....
group "Output"
(
activeXControl myXControl "MSComctlLib.ListViewCtrl" height:400
)

....
)

If that doesn't work, you may need to actually declare your rollout in its entirety first.

RH

DonMeck

01-24-2005, 04:35 PM

thank you. Haven't done much mxs stuff for a while - so I guess I got rusty regarding these topics.
Though I wasn't able to access it via the global rollout, I went thourgh the global declared floater: floater->rollout->control

cheers
dom

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