ActiveX controls in MSHTML?

[Dan Kegel]

A systems integrator mentioned that many commercial ERP applications
use ActiveX terminal emulator controls embedded in web pages.
(I think http://www.zephyrcorp.com/terminal-emulator-activex-document.htm
is an example of such an ActiveX control.)
Presumably these will run in IE on Wine, but will they
run in the new MSHTML browser that's part of Wine?
(Sorry if my terminology is a bit off - I haven't played with mshtml ever.)

[Jacek Caban]

Dan Kegel wrote:
> A systems integrator mentioned that many commercial ERP applications
> use ActiveX terminal emulator controls embedded in web pages.
> (I think http://www.zephyrcorp.com/terminal-emulator-activex-document.htm
> is an example of such an ActiveX control.)
> Presumably these will run in IE on Wine, but will they
> run in the new MSHTML browser that's part of Wine?
> (Sorry if my terminology is a bit off - I haven't played with mshtml ever.)

I've never tested it, but it should be possible.
There is Plug-in For Hosting ActiveX Controls:
http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/plugin.htm
It is installed by default with Mozilla ActiveX
Control (I know, it's a mess of names here...), so
if MSHTML uses Gecko provided by this, it'll
be able to use ActiveX control. I don't know
how well does it work, but, to have full support
for ActiveX, that plug-in would probably have to
cooperate with MSHTML. It means that if we
want to have a full support for ActiveX controls,
we'd have to implement it ourselves by creating
a Gecko plug-in in MSHTML. But it's for far future
and, again, perhaps current solution is good
enough.

Jacek

[Roderick Colenbrander]

> --- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ---
> Von: Dan Kegel 
> An: "[e-mail]" 
> Betreff: ActiveX controls in MSHTML?
> Datum: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 08:45:10 -0700
>
> A systems integrator mentioned that many commercial ERP applications
> use ActiveX terminal emulator controls embedded in web pages.
> (I think http://www.zephyrcorp.com/terminal-emulator-activex-document.htm
> is an example of such an ActiveX control.)
> Presumably these will run in IE on Wine, but will they
> run in the new MSHTML browser that's part of Wine?
> (Sorry if my terminology is a bit off - I haven't played with mshtml
> ever.)

Hi,

Perhaps a little offtopic but there's a big chance that these sites work
fine using Konqueror if you use 'reaktivate'. Not sure if much people
remember what reaktivate is but it is a plugin for konqueror which uses wine
to load activex controls. For instance it allows you to run shockwave and
other plugins.

Regards,

Roderick