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- Microsoft« ActiveX(TM) Control Pad Release Notes
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-
- ⌐ Copyright Microsoft Corporation, 1996.
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- To view this document most effectively in Notepad, maximize the
- Notepad window and turn on Word Wrap (Edit menu).
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- Contents
- --------
- These release notes supplement the information in the
- the Microsoft ActiveX Control Pad Help file.
-
- 1. Support Information
- 2. Requirements
- 3. Installation
- 4. Known Issues
-
-
- 1. Support Information
- ======================
-
- The Microsoft ActiveX Control Pad is a free, downloadable product.
- Microsoft has established an online newsgroup for this product,
- for peer-to-peer support only. This newsgroup can be used to
- exchange information with others who are using the ActiveX Control
- Pad.
-
- To access this newsgroup using a newsgroup reader, enter the
- following news server address:
-
- msnews.microsoft.com
-
- The name of the newsgroup is:
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- activeX_controlpad_HTML_layout_control
-
- Or, you can use the following URL to access the newsgroup directly
- from a Web browser:
-
- news:microsoft.public.activeX_controlpad_HTML_layout_control
-
- The newsreader available with Internet Explorer version 3.0 supports
- multiple news servers. You can download the newsreader from the
- Internet Explorer site (http://www.microsoft.com/ie).
-
- Microsoft AnswerPoint Fee based technical support is available from
- Microsoft by dialing (800) 936-5800.
-
-
- 2. Requirements for Microsoft ActiveX Control Pad
- ==================================================
-
- To run Microsoft ActiveX Control Pad, you need the following:
-
- * A personal computer with a minimum 486 microprocessor running
- Microsoft Windows 95 or later, or Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 or later.
- * 16 MB of RAM.
- * 10 MB of free disk space on your hard drive.
- * Internet Explorer 3.0 or later.
-
-
- 3. Installing the Microsoft ActiveX Control Pad
- ===============================================
-
- To install the Microsoft ActiveX Control Pad, download the setup file
- from:
-
- http://www.microsoft.com/workshop/author/
-
- After downloading SETUPPAD.EXE to your system:
-
- 1. Run SETUPPAD.EXE.
- 2. Follow the setup instructions on your screen.
- 3. Open the ActiveX Control Pad README file from the Windows 95 Start
- menu to review important information about the product.
-
- Note: Microsoft ActiveX Control Pad includes the HTML Layout control.
- You don't need to download and install the HTML Layout control
- separately.
-
-
- 4. Known Issues
- ===============
-
- Beta 1 Compatibility
- --------------------
- HTML Layouts authored with the Beta 1 release of the Microsoft ActiveX
- Control Pad that contain <OBJECT> tags with the "DATA=DATA:..."
- attribute will not work with this release. Replace "DATA:" with
- "DATA:APPLICATION/X-OLEOBJECT;BASE64," to upgrade an HTML Layout to
- work with the released version.
-
- ActiveX Controls and Objects
- ----------------------------
- Low memory may cause certain images to be downloaded incorrectly
- when using the Image control, resulting in the loss of image data.
-
- The Microsoft Forms 2.0 MultiPage Control, and the Microsoft Forms 2.0
- Frame Control will not work in HTML or in an .alx file.
-
- <OBJECT> tags placed in HTML that are larger than 2K will not be
- instantiated by Internet Explorer.
-
- Setting the MousePointer property will only show black-and-white icon
- at runtime.
-
- When persisting URL properties, the ActiveX Control Pad does not persist
- the REF attribute in the <PARAM> tag. This attribute is used by certain
- tools to do link fixup. Use document-relative URL's to avoid link fixup
- issues.
-
- Setting and changing Z-Order at runtime works with Windowless
- ActiveX Controls. Windowed controls, which most legacy controls are,
- can not be used with Z-Order, they will always appear above Windowless
- controls.
-
- Setting the MouseIcon property for Forms 2.0 controls will not
- work as expected when used directly in an HTML file. MouseIcon on
- these controls does work correctly when used within an HTML Layout
- Control.
-
- Setting TabKeyBehavior=True for a multiline textbox control will not
- behave as expected. The object participates in the tab order instead
- of inserting a tab character.
-
- The License Manager Object should not be inserted in the .alx file. To
- use licensed controls in an HTML document, the license manager
- information should be inserted directly into the HTML document.
-
- HTML Layout
- -----------
- Comments inside a <DIV> </DIV> block are not preserved. To preserve
- comments in the .alx file, place them outside the <DIV> block.
-
- Inserting HTML Layouts in HTML files requires an absolute path unless
- the layout being inserted is in the same directory as the host HTML
- file, or the HTML Layout is located in a subdirectory of the directory
- containing the host HTML file.
-
- The bgColor property of the HTML Layout cannot be set to a system color
- (i.e., any of the colors in the drop-down list in the property page).
- Use an absolute color value instead.
-
- Z-Order commands cannot be undone using the Undo command (Edit Menu).
-
- Dragging and Dropping of .bmp, .avi, or other files on to the
- ActiveX Control Pad's HTML Layout editor can cause problems. Instead,
- drag out the appropriate control first, and then point the control's
- property at the file to be used.
-
- Inserting objects into an HTML Layout that are not proper ActiveX
- Controls, for example an Excel spreadsheet, can cause unexpected results.
- If the object is inserted by adding it to the toolbox as a control and
- then adding it to the HTML Layout, the following tags will be written
- to the .alx file:
- <OBJECT STYLE="ZINDEX:0;">
- </OBJECT>
- In general, do not insert non ActiveX Controls into an HTML Layout.
- Non ActiveX Controls will not appear in the Insert ActiveX Control
- selection dialog.
-
- Accelerators do not work as expected within an HTML Layout.
-
- Scripting
- ---------
- When you are setting properties in the Script Wizard's List view, the
- "Color" button returns the HEX code in RRGGBB format (e.g. - #FF00FF)
- for the color selected.
-
- When scripting elements on an HTML page, the Script Wizard removes extra
- whitespace and extra carriage returns from the file.
-
- The Script Wizard does not check for duplicate procedure and object names.
-
- When commenting inline scripts using VBScript code, use "REM"
- instead of the "'" character. Inline scripts are any script contained
- directly in the HTML tag for the object, such as scripts specified directly
- in an <INPUT> tag. You can use "'" in <SCRIPT> blocks.
-
- The Script Wizard automatically places an "End Sub" at the end of
- procedures. Adding an "End Sub" in List View or Code View will result
- in two "End Sub" lines for one procedure. Use Notepad to remove the
- duplicate "End Sub" from .alx files (which you can easily launch
- by using the "View Source" context menu item).
-
- Both VBScript and JavaScript are strict about which characters can be
- used in variable names, names of ActiveX Controls (expressed with the
- ID= attribute of the <OBJECT> tag), and <INPUT> tag NAME= names. Only
- ASCII characters A-Z, a-z, _, and 0-9 are allowed. Spaces (" "),
- dashes ("-"), and DBCS characters are not valid name and identifier
- characters and can lead to unexpected errors. No name, in either
- language, is allowed to begin with a number.
-
- Clicking on the value of a radio button in the Script Wizard action
- pane yields Document.form.group.value where group is the "name"
- property that may appear in several grouped radio buttons. This
- will cause a runtime error. Instead, what should be generating
- is Document.form.group.item(n).value (where n is 1-based count of
- the radio button in that group).
-
- Non-unique values for the ID property of an object can cause unexpected
- behavior. The Control Pad will assign a unique name to the ID property
- for each control. While renaming is allowed, be careful not to
- duplicate ID values. Also, if an ID within an HTML Layout matches the
- ID within the host HTML file, unexpected results can also occur;
- avoid ID conflicts throughout the entire HTML file environment.
-
- Forms 2.0 control properties cannot be set through standard JavaScript
- property setting code. Use the following syntax:
- object.property
- Do not use this syntax:
- object["property"] -- or -- object[1]
-
- Miscellaneous
- -------------
- Redocking the toolbar may cause it to become dimmed. If this occurs,
- click the toolbar or slightly adjust it.
-
- ==== End of Readme ====
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