How to Access Properties of Control

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Ahmad Jalil Qarshi - 29 Mar 2005 06:54 GMT

hi!

i have placed my own activex control into Word document using following
function.

CComVariant varClsType("Ascertia.AscertiaObj.1");
MSWord::InlineShapePtr MyObj =
m_pWordApp->Selection->InlineShapes->AddOLEObject(&varClsType);

Now my activex control has different get and set properties like Caption,
BKColor,MyData etc. I want to access and modify those properties using VBA
or prefferably VC++ code from within Word.

anybody there to give me a hand.
Thanks in advance.
Ahmad Jalil Qarshi

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Alexander Nickolov - 29 Mar 2005 19:44 GMT

The name of the method suggests you are adding your control
as an OLE insertable object, not as a control. These are not
presumed to support Automation and are controlled by the
container (Word) directly. I don't know Word, so can't tell you
any specifics, but you may consider looking for a different way
of adding your object (or I may be wrong). Ask this question
in the office groups. For example:

microsoft.public.office.developer.automation

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> hi!
>
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> Thanks in advance.
> Ahmad Jalil Qarshi

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Ahmad Jalil Qarshi - 30 Mar 2005 08:18 GMT

Thanks Alexander!
you are right i didn't add my control as an activex control. now i have
added it using AddOLEControl. it return the InlineShapePtr which contains a
member OLEFormat. i used OLEFormat's GetObject function to return the
IDispatchPtr and so i accessed my Control's properties successfully.
Thanks again.
Ahmad Jalil Qarshi

> The name of the method suggests you are adding your control
> as an OLE insertable object, not as a control. These are not
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> > Thanks in advance.
> > Ahmad Jalil Qarshi

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