Adding ActiveX Controls to Your Application
ActiveX controls (OCXs) are a special class of programmable Automation objects that expose their own events in addition to their properties and methods. You embed the ActiveX control in a form and program the control with the same types of statements used with native Access controls, such as a text box or combo box. Some ActiveX controls are databound, in which case you embed the control in a form bound to an Access table or query.
ActiveX controls are similar to Visual Basic custom controls (VBXs) in concept and use. VBXs are 16-bit only, while ActiveX controls are 32-bit only. All the Office 97 applications that support Forms 2.0 let you embed ActiveX controls on forms; Internet Explorer 3.0 also ...
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