ActiveX Controls and Applications

Creating an ActiveX Control

In this exercise, you will create an ActiveX control using Visual Basic.

* To create an ActiveX control

1. Start Visual Basic and create a new ActiveX Control project.
2. Rename the project, Lab8Control .
3. Change the name of UserControl1 to ChangeDateTime .
4. From the File menu, click Save Project .
5. Save the project in the WA\Practice\Ch08 directory. Click No when prompted to Add this project to SourceSafe .
6. Change the BackColor property of ChangeDateTime to Window Background .
7. Insert a Label control and a Timer control to the ChangeDateTime as shown in the following illustration.

   

8. Set the following properties:

   ---

   Control	Property Value
   Timer1	Interval = 100
   Label1	Caption = ""
   Label1	Font = Arial 12 point
   Label1	BackStyle = 0 “ Transparent
   Label1	Alignment = 2 “ Center

   ---

9. In the Timer control's Timer event, add the following code:

    Label1.Caption = Now() 

10. Save changes to the project.
11. From the File menu, click Make Lab8Control.ocx .

    When the Make Project dialog appears, make sure the directory is set to WA\Practice\Ch08 .