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MS Office Forum / General MS InfoPath Questions / July 2004scripting Activex controls contained in form
Hello, I've done a lot of research via google etc... and seem to be having some problems... I've got a signature capture control (specific for the device I am using) in which I am able to drag and drop on my form. THe problem is that in the wizard, I cant really bind any properties of the control to a datasource. If I can get a reference to the activex control from the JSCRIPT editor, I can do the rest from there... but to get to that point I am somewhat lost. Also, I'll be able t run a function of this activex control to return a string of text which I want to insert into a field of the db. Can I preprocess on submit, or is there such a thing as a hidden field, that I can set the value of from behind? Thanks in Advance Weston Weems You cannot access the ActiveX control directly because InfoPath works on XML data by generating, and regenerating, an HTML view. It is the view which contains an instance ActiveX control. During the process of updating the view, the ActiveX control may get destroyed and recreated multiple times An ActiveX control which is not designed for InfoPath can bind one value to the data. InfoPath adds some interfaces your control can call to access the InfoPath object model and thus bind to more than one node or otherwise store the data you need. --Matthew Blain http://tips.serriform.com/ > Hello, I've done a lot of research via google etc... and seem to be > having some problems... [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > Thanks in Advance > Weston Weems I guess that makes sense... is that how things are going to stay, or can I expect more functionality in thefuture? > You cannot access the ActiveX control directly because InfoPath works on XML > data by generating, and regenerating, an HTML view. It is the view which [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] > > Thanks in Advance > > Weston Weems |
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