Active - X

[John]

Hi,
I am just looking at the activeX controls for the first
time. I noticed a calendar and it gave me an idea for a
search engine based on clicking the date. Does anyone know
how to set this up?

My goal would be to have the user click on a day and it
would use that date to run a DB query and than write a
table on the screen with the results for that day only.

If anyone knows where I can get an example on how to set
this up or any information on this that would be great!

Thanks

 

[Mark Fitzpatrick]

Avoid the ActiveX controls if possible. Newer Internet Explorer patches will
cut down on the useability of these controls in a web page. Also, the
ActiveX control isn't necessarily part of FP. If I remember correctly, it is
actually part of Office so not everyone will be able to see it. Instead you
can probably use some of the calanders created using javascript instead.
There are a bunch of calander javascripts at:
http://javascript.internet.com/calendars/ The ones you are looking for
mostly are date pickers. Basically though, your best bet may be to have a
text field that represents a date that can be filled in by hand, or can be
filled in by a date picker.

Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage

 

[John]

Hi,
Thanks! I am not really all that worried about using
activeX with this web site. It is a internal web site for
a small company and everyone uses IE and has office.

You did bring up some good points. I will try to get this
going but I will also check out the other stuff you talked
about.

Thanks again!

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

FYI
Win XP Pro SP 2 will also cause you problems w/ activeX

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| Hi,
| Thanks! I am not really all that worried about using
| activeX with this web site. It is a internal web site for
| a small company and everyone uses IE and has office.
|
| You did bring up some good points. I will try to get this
| going but I will also check out the other stuff you talked
| about.
|
| Thanks again!
|
| >-----Original Message-----
| >Avoid the ActiveX controls if possible. Newer Internet
| Explorer patches will
| >cut down on the useability of these controls in a web
| page. Also, the
| >ActiveX control isn't necessarily part of FP. If I
| remember correctly, it is
| >actually part of Office so not everyone will be able to
| see it. Instead you
| >can probably use some of the calanders created using
| javascript instead.
| >There are a bunch of calander javascripts at:
| >http://javascript.internet.com/calendars/ The ones you
| are looking for
| >mostly are date pickers. Basically though, your best bet
| may be to have a
| >text field that represents a date that can be filled in
| by hand, or can be
| >filled in by a date picker.
| >
| > Hope this helps,
| > Mark Fitzpatrick
| > Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
| >
| >| >> Hi,
| >> I am just looking at the activeX controls for the first
| >> time. I noticed a calendar and it gave me an idea for a
| >> search engine based on clicking the date. Does anyone
| know
| >> how to set this up?
| >>
| >> My goal would be to have the user click on a day and it
| >> would use that date to run a DB query and than write a
| >> table on the screen with the results for that day only.
| >>
| >> If anyone knows where I can get an example on how to set
| >> this up or any information on this that would be great!
| >>
| >> Thanks
| >>
| >
| >
| >.
| >

 

[John]

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