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  • June 24, 2017
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Hi Everyone:

I've installed an ActiveX for using with Cobol Wow, but the control itself has many objects with its own Methods,Properties and Events. Unfortunately the wow development tools only show the main object. Is there an way in order to access others objects like CreateObject function we use in VB?. In others words how can I create a reference to an object with rm-cobol and wow?.

Thanks for your tips,

Humberto Betancur

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    Juan Urraburu
    • Juan Urraburu
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    • June 27, 2017

    Hi Everyone:

    I've installed an ActiveX for using with Cobol Wow, but the control itself has many objects with its own Methods,Properties and Events. Unfortunately the wow development tools only show the main object. Is there an way in order to access others objects like CreateObject function we use in VB?. In others words how can I create a reference to an object with rm-cobol and wow?.

    Thanks for your tips,

    Humberto Betancur

    Hi Humberto,

    How are you?

    What ActiveX are you trying to use? Something you developed in VB or a comercial control?

    Normally, when you go to the properties of the control in Wow, you have a Custom property to get access to the custom properties of the ActiveX. And in the Menu, View, ActiveX Methods, you have access to the included methods in the control.

    Regards,

    Juan Urraburu
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    Hi Everyone:

    I've installed an ActiveX for using with Cobol Wow, but the control itself has many objects with its own Methods,Properties and Events. Unfortunately the wow development tools only show the main object. Is there an way in order to access others objects like CreateObject function we use in VB?. In others words how can I create a reference to an object with rm-cobol and wow?.

    Thanks for your tips,

    Humberto Betancur

    Hi Juan

    Some commercial ActiveX have more than one Object and each of them has their own groups of Methods, Properties and Events. Cobol Wow only make a reference to one Object, I think the first one. The think is that I need to reference the others Objects, and consequently bein able to access their group of Methods, Properties and Events.

    I remenber now some years ago i was trying to use ActiveX controls from Infragistics and I couldn't get success due to this Wow limitation 

    I Never had seen any way in Wow to accomplish this request.

    Any Suggestions?.

    Regards,

    Humberto Betancur

    Juan Urraburu
    • Juan Urraburu
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    • June 30, 2017

    Hi Everyone:

    I've installed an ActiveX for using with Cobol Wow, but the control itself has many objects with its own Methods,Properties and Events. Unfortunately the wow development tools only show the main object. Is there an way in order to access others objects like CreateObject function we use in VB?. In others words how can I create a reference to an object with rm-cobol and wow?.

    Thanks for your tips,

    Humberto Betancur

    Hi Humberto,

    If you tell me what Infragistic's control you want to use, I can try.

    Did you tried with DBI Component Toolbox for COM? http://dbi-tech.com/

    Regards
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    Hi Everyone:

    I've installed an ActiveX for using with Cobol Wow, but the control itself has many objects with its own Methods,Properties and Events. Unfortunately the wow development tools only show the main object. Is there an way in order to access others objects like CreateObject function we use in VB?. In others words how can I create a reference to an object with rm-cobol and wow?.

    Thanks for your tips,

    Humberto Betancur

    Dear HUMBERTO:

    According to our experience the controls that handle the standards of the market based on ActiveX COM work without problem in WOW and among them this DBI-Tech as Manuel suggests.

    There are many controls available for WOW, if you reference which of the Infragistics controls you want to use we could help you with some other option.

    I have tried Infragistics and they do not actually work with ActiveX COM for they are a technology that is no longer used, but I highly respect their opinion.

    For example in GRID there are many options and WOW works with the best GRID in the world, thanks to the standards used by the manufacturers of ActiveX COM controls and for the rest.

    For your attention, thank you very much.
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    Hi Everyone:

    I've installed an ActiveX for using with Cobol Wow, but the control itself has many objects with its own Methods,Properties and Events. Unfortunately the wow development tools only show the main object. Is there an way in order to access others objects like CreateObject function we use in VB?. In others words how can I create a reference to an object with rm-cobol and wow?.

    Thanks for your tips,

    Humberto Betancur

    Hi Juan and Patricio,

    We use almost all DBi controls with success due to the fact those controls only use a reference to only one Object. But the problem arises when we try to use others ActiveX controls like XTreme ActiveX Controls from Codejock. As you can see in those controls they have more than one Object and WOW only make reference to the functions of the Main Object. I think this access wil be imposible for WOW due to OO limitations unless we can get in WOW some functions in order to create and reference Objetcs. I understand RMcobol is not OO and can't use COM Objetcs.
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    Hi Everyone:

    I've installed an ActiveX for using with Cobol Wow, but the control itself has many objects with its own Methods,Properties and Events. Unfortunately the wow development tools only show the main object. Is there an way in order to access others objects like CreateObject function we use in VB?. In others words how can I create a reference to an object with rm-cobol and wow?.

    Thanks for your tips,

    Humberto Betancur

    Dear HUMBERTO:

    Effectively those controls even COM do not work correctly in WOW, there are other manufacturers of controls that can solve those that interest you within the ToolKit that you try to make it work.

    Thank you for your attention.
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    Hi Everyone:

    I've installed an ActiveX for using with Cobol Wow, but the control itself has many objects with its own Methods,Properties and Events. Unfortunately the wow development tools only show the main object. Is there an way in order to access others objects like CreateObject function we use in VB?. In others words how can I create a reference to an object with rm-cobol and wow?.

    Thanks for your tips,

    Humberto Betancur

    Hi All

    Coming in a bit late on this, but a quick couple of points . . .

    I used to create COM controls in VB6 that had multiple controls in them, WOW handled them correctly and offered all the controls in the toolbox.

    If the control you are trying to use in WOW works OK in VB6, you could "wrap" the control in VB6 and then use the VB6 control in WOW. VB6 offers a "wizard" to easily wrap controls which automatically mirrors the Properties, Methods, and Events of the original control.

    Cheers

    Nigel

    PS Cannot try this on your controi because I no longer have access to a WOW dev system/compiler :-(
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    Hi Everyone:

    I've installed an ActiveX for using with Cobol Wow, but the control itself has many objects with its own Methods,Properties and Events. Unfortunately the wow development tools only show the main object. Is there an way in order to access others objects like CreateObject function we use in VB?. In others words how can I create a reference to an object with rm-cobol and wow?.

    Thanks for your tips,

    Humberto Betancur

    Hi All

    Coming in a bit late on this, but a quick couple of points . . .

    I used to create COM controls in VB6 that had multiple controls in them, WOW handled them correctly and offered all the controls in the toolbox.

    If the control you are trying to use in WOW works OK in VB6, you could "wrap" the control in VB6 and then use the VB6 control in WOW. VB6 offers a "wizard" to easily wrap controls which automatically mirrors the Properties, Methods, and Events of the original control.

    Cheers

    Nigel

    PS Cannot try this on your controi because I no longer have access to a WOW dev system/compiler :-(
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    Hi Everyone:

    I've installed an ActiveX for using with Cobol Wow, but the control itself has many objects with its own Methods,Properties and Events. Unfortunately the wow development tools only show the main object. Is there an way in order to access others objects like CreateObject function we use in VB?. In others words how can I create a reference to an object with rm-cobol and wow?.

    Thanks for your tips,

    Humberto Betancur

    Dear NIGEL:

    Thanks for your comments, you could send us some example about it.

    Thank you for your attention.
    Juan Urraburu
    • Juan Urraburu
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    • July 12, 2017

    Hi Everyone:

    I've installed an ActiveX for using with Cobol Wow, but the control itself has many objects with its own Methods,Properties and Events. Unfortunately the wow development tools only show the main object. Is there an way in order to access others objects like CreateObject function we use in VB?. In others words how can I create a reference to an object with rm-cobol and wow?.

    Thanks for your tips,

    Humberto Betancur

    Hi Nigel,

    You are right. I was thinking about the same. We also have a couple of customers using VB6 wrappers against certain DBI Technologies ActiveX controls that use object oriented methods to change some properties that are not supported by Cobol-WOW, so building an ActiveX in VB let them set those properties from Cobol using this control that has the other inside.

    Regards,

    Juan Urraburu

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