From Form to Active Document

April 1997 / Reviews / The Basics of Web Development / From Form to Active Document

The ActiveX Document Migration Wizard converts existing forms into Active Documents. The Wizard copies selected forms into new user documents and then copies all controls -- retaining their names, positions, and properties. The Wizard then converts event handlers to work correctly in the new environment so that Form_Load is remapped as UserDocument_Initialize. Other invalid code is commented out, and your applicatio n Project Type is changed to an ActiveX EXE or DLL. The Wizard leaves you with suggestions for adding appropriate methods, such as the Hyperlink object, to allow navigation in containers such as the Internet Explorer.
Develope rs can configure Active Document-based projects to function alone or within a browser. You can detect the host environment and then use logic that either loads a form or jumps to a user document. You can also host the Internet Explorer as an ActiveX control to display user documents on the desktop.

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