Form Initialize Method

vhassan

My vb form contains an ocx control and I have Form_Initialize method working. Upon executing what will happen 1- Ocx registration is checked before form initialize method?? 2- After initialized method?? 3- Ocx registration is checked by windows? please reply.

Dave Kreskowiak

The registration is not checked at all until you attempt to make an instance of your control.

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vhassan

Thank you for reply. I have ocx control on my form at design time. Now I call form_initialize method but get dependency error from windows. Steps I do. 1- A registered ocx control on VB Form. 2- Make an exe of my program. 3- Un-register the control using regsvr32 -u 4- Now if i run exe I get dependency error. I want to handle that error. Please tell. Thank you.

Christian Graus

vhassan wrote:

I want to handle that error. Please tell.

I assume the point of this is to try to work out if you have your control registered, and give an intelligent error message ? Your best bet is to handle the specific exception type, catch it, and show an error message, and exit.

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Dave Kreskowiak

Not under VB6. You only get the On Error Resume Next thing, which sucks.

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Dave Kreskowiak

I'll say it again. You can't. The error is thrown before any of your code runs.

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