ActiveX DLL

Hi, I know you said you are trying to use your control with a console app, but this might be a start:
MSDN Doc

I have only ever dealt with ActiveX controls in frames and dialog boxes, but I don't see why it would be a stretch to use one with a regular console app. You could just add it to a dialog in your resource editor, but just never show the dialog. Then you could let ATL do all the AX init stuff and interact with the control. Also, here is a recent thread where someone else was trying to get an AX control going using only Win32 and C++:
GDNet Thread

He was using it in a dialog, but a lot of the concepts still would hold for a console app.


[edited by - CodeMunkie on August 13, 2003 4:47:17 PM]

Thanks for your help, and the links.

As far as I know, I''m not dealing with a control but a type library. I spent a long time yesterday trying to get some use of it, and came up with this (which still has problems)...

* Register the DLL using regsvr32.exe, which succeeds.

regsvr32 "GOLD Parser Engine.dll"

* Use the contents of the DLL as a type library by using Visual C++''s #import directive.

#import "GOLD Parser Engine.dll"

I can do that and it doesn''t produce an error, but the sample C++ code in the GOLD docs doesn''t compile.

	GOLDParserEngine::_GOLDParserPtr parser;
	CoInitialize (NULL);
	HRESULT hr = parser.CreateInstance (__uuidof (GOLDParserEngine::_GOLDParser));

The problems I have with this are the following:

* I can''t create an instance of _GOLDParser directly because it has unimplemented pure virtual methods required by COM.
* CreateInstance like above fails because the class isn''t registered, even though I registered the DLL.
* Looking at the contents of the type library using the Visual C++ OLE View tool doesn''t work because it says the library isn''t registered.

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