[go4kpo]

Does somebody know if it's possible to reload an activex control embedded in an HTML page, without reloading the page?

I want to be able to dynamically load the ActiveX control with differnt property settings.

i cannot just change the propeties of the control because the control is build that it reads the values when it initializes and then sets a local variable, which i don't have access to later on. So i wasn't able to realod the activex with different paramas without reloading the page.

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[Millennium]

We're a Mac site; we have no experience with ActiveX controls. Neither should anyone else, frankly. Use a real standard, or a Java applet if nothing else will work. ActiveX is a fundamentally-flawed trechnology which has caused more problems than it has ever solved.

What exactly is it that you want to do? We may know of a better solution than ActiveX; such solutions exist in almost every case.

[Chris O'Brien]

Not having used ActiveX in more than 5 years, this solution may be completely stupid (and I don't even know if IE supports what I'm about to write, because I don't script for it anymore).

But something like replacing the <object> with a clone of it would seem to work.

Code:
var my_object = document.getElementById("my_object");
var new_object = my_object.cloneNode(true);

my_object.parentNode.replaceChild(new_object, my_object);

That's assuming the ActiveX control is embedded as an <object> tag with an id of `my_object'.

And yeah, I know IE lets you get elements by just referring to a global var of their ID, but that's just wrong

[Simon Mundy]

Originally Posted by Millennium

We're a Mac site; we have no experience with ActiveX controls. Neither should anyone else, frankly. Use a real standard, or a Java applet if nothing else will work. ActiveX is a fundamentally-flawed trechnology which has caused more problems than it has ever solved.

What exactly is it that you want to do? We may know of a better solution than ActiveX; such solutions exist in almost every case.

I agree with the sentiment, but there's no way I'd ever presume to know what 'we' have experience with, given a good deal of the members here have skills in all sorts of web development.