[archive] Passing Active-x control as a parameter to another program

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 18 February 2004]

I've got an active-x control defined in the screen section of my program and everything works OK. Now I would like to pass this control to a separate program for processing.

My problem is I don't know how to pass it to the other program. Do I need to take it out of the screen section and use "DISPLAY object... handle is handle-var"?

Thanks,
Clay Haller

ActiveX components are tied to their Window and thread, so you cannot pass them over to other COBOL programs. This limitation is by design.

If the component was a COM object on the other hand, it would be independent and could be passed around, see WordMailMerge.cbl example for an example of this.

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 18 February 2004]

I've got an active-x control defined in the screen section of my program and everything works OK. Now I would like to pass this control to a separate program for processing.

My problem is I don't know how to pass it to the other program. Do I need to take it out of the screen section and use "DISPLAY object... handle is handle-var"?

Thanks,
Clay Haller

ActiveX components are tied to their Window and thread, so you cannot pass them over to other COBOL programs. This limitation is by design.

If the component was a COM object on the other hand, it would be independent and could be passed around, see WordMailMerge.cbl example for an example of this.

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 18 February 2004]

I've got an active-x control defined in the screen section of my program and everything works OK. Now I would like to pass this control to a separate program for processing.

My problem is I don't know how to pass it to the other program. Do I need to take it out of the screen section and use "DISPLAY object... handle is handle-var"?

Thanks,
Clay Haller

Thanks, Gisle

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 18 February 2004]

I've got an active-x control defined in the screen section of my program and everything works OK. Now I would like to pass this control to a separate program for processing.

My problem is I don't know how to pass it to the other program. Do I need to take it out of the screen section and use "DISPLAY object... handle is handle-var"?

Thanks,
Clay Haller

Thanks, Gisle

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 18 February 2004]

I've got an active-x control defined in the screen section of my program and everything works OK. Now I would like to pass this control to a separate program for processing.

My problem is I don't know how to pass it to the other program. Do I need to take it out of the screen section and use "DISPLAY object... handle is handle-var"?

Thanks,
Clay Haller

Thanks, Gisle

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 18 February 2004]

I've got an active-x control defined in the screen section of my program and everything works OK. Now I would like to pass this control to a separate program for processing.

My problem is I don't know how to pass it to the other program. Do I need to take it out of the screen section and use "DISPLAY object... handle is handle-var"?

Thanks,
Clay Haller

Correction.

I was wrong, or at least partly wrong ;-)

What I meant to say that you could not do, is to display a Window in program A, call program B and pass the handle of the window, using this handle to create an Activex in program B onto the window of program A. THAT will cause trouble.

On the contrary, if you create a window and display an ActiveX onto this in program A, then call program B giving the handle of the ActiveX you made in program A, program B may use this handle.

Note that you will have to include the .def file in both program A and B. This will cause a significant overhead when debugging, but for the final release there won't be as the compiler abandons unused stuff.

My compliments to Davide Spizzi from Acu Italy for correcting me here.

Davide, would you mind post your calendar sample illustrating this?

Sorry for my wrongdoing.

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 18 February 2004]

I've got an active-x control defined in the screen section of my program and everything works OK. Now I would like to pass this control to a separate program for processing.

My problem is I don't know how to pass it to the other program. Do I need to take it out of the screen section and use "DISPLAY object... handle is handle-var"?

Thanks,
Clay Haller

Thanks! That is what I'm looking for.

Clay

[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 18 February 2004]

I've got an active-x control defined in the screen section of my program and everything works OK. Now I would like to pass this control to a separate program for processing.

My problem is I don't know how to pass it to the other program. Do I need to take it out of the screen section and use "DISPLAY object... handle is handle-var"?

Thanks,
Clay Haller

Thanks! That is what I'm looking for.

Clay