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- Microsoft« ActiveX Control Pad Beta 2 Release Notes
- ⌐ Copyright Microsoft Corporation, 1996.
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- *** CONTENTS ***
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- These release notes supplement the information in the
- the Microsoft ActiveX Control Pad Help file.
-
- 1.0 Support Information
- 2.0 Requirements
- 3.0 Installation
- 4.0 Known Issues - Microsoft ActiveX Control Pad
- 5.0 Known Issues - Microsoft HTML Layout Control
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- 1.0 Support Information
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- The Microsoft ActiveX Control Pad is a free, downloadable product.
- Microsoft has established an online newsgroup for this product that
- will be monitored by Microsoft Product Support engineers.
- Please use this newsgroup to provide feedback on the product,
- talk to other users, and to ask technical support questions.
-
- * To access this newsgroup using a newsgroup reader, enter the
- following news server address:
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- msnews.microsoft.com.
-
- - The name of the newsgroup is:
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- "activeX_controlpad_HTML_layout_control."
-
- * Or, you can use the following URL to access the newsgroup directly
- from a Web browser:
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- news:microsoft.public.activeX_controlpad_HTML_layout_control.
-
- The newsreader available with Internet Explorer version 3.0 supports
- multiple news servers. You can download the newsreader from the
- Internet Explorer site (http://www.microsoft.com/ie/imn/).
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- 2.0 Requirements for Microsoft ActiveX Control Pad
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- To run Microsoft ActiveX Control Pad, you need the following:
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- * A personal computer with a minimum 486 microprocessor running
- Microsoft Windows 95 or Microsoft Windows NT Beta 2
- * 16 MB of RAM
- * 10 MB of free disk space on your hard drive
- * Internet Explorer 3.0 Beta 2
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- 2.0 Installing the Microsoft ActiveX Control Pad
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-
- Before installing Microsoft ActiveX Control Pad, make sure that you
- have Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 Beta 2 installed on your machine.
-
- To install the Microsoft ActiveX Control Pad, download the setup file
- from:
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- http://www.microsoft.com/workshop/author/
-
- After downloading SETUPPAD.EXE to your system:
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- 1. Run SETUPPAD.EXE.
- 2. Follow the setup instructions on your screen.
- 3. Open the ActiveX Control Pad README file from the Windows 95 Start
- menu to review important information about the product.
-
- Note: Microsoft ActiveX Control Pad includes the HTML Layout control.
- You don't need to download and install the HTML Layout control
- separately.
-
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- 3.0 Known Issues - Microsoft ActiveX Control Pad
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- HTML Layouts authored with the Beta 1 release of the Microsoft ActiveX
- Control Pad that contain <OBJECT> tags with the "DATA=DATA:..."
- attribute will not work with this release. Replace "DATA:" with
- "DATA:APPLICATION/X-OLEOBJECT;BASE64," to upgrade an HTML Layout to
- work with Beta 2.
-
- The License Manager Object should not be inserted in the .alx file. To
- use licensed controls in an HTML document, the license manager
- information should be inserted directly into the HTML document.
-
- Comments inside a <DIV> </DIV> block are not preserved. To preserve
- comments in the .alx file, place them outside the <DIV> block.
-
- When you are setting properties in the Script Wizard's List view, the
- "Color" button returns the HEX code in RRGGBB format (e.g. - #FF00FF)
- for the color selected.
-
- Inserting HTML Layouts in HTML files requires an absolute path unless
- the layout being inserted is in the same directory or a subdirectory as
- the HTML file.
-
- When scripting elements on an HTML page, the Script Wizard removes extra
- whitespace and extra carriage returns from the file.
-
- Low memory may cause certain images to be downloaded incorrectly,
- resulting in the loss of image data.
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- The Script Wizard does not check for duplicate procedure and object names.
-
- The bgColor property of the HTML Layout cannot be set to a system color
- (i.e., any of the colors in the dropdown list in the property page).
-
- The Microsoft Forms 2.0 MultiPage Control, and the Microsoft Forms 2.0
- Frame Control will not work in HTML or in an .alx file.
-
- Z-Order commands cannot be undone using the Undo command (Edit Menu).
-
- <OBJECT> tags placed in HTML that are larger then 2K will not be
- instantiated by Internet Explorer.
-
- Controls with ID's that contain spaces may cause the Script Wizard to
- stop responding. To ensure scripting that works, do not use ID's with
- spaces.
-
- Setting the MousePointer property will only show black & white icon at
- runtime.
-
- When persisting URL properties, the Control Pad does not persist the
- REF attribute in the <PARAM> tag. This attribute is used by certain tools
- to do link fixup. Use document-relative URL's to avoid link fixup issues.
-
- When commenting VBScript code, use "REM" instead of the "'" character.
-
- Redocking the toolbar may cause it to become dimmed. If this occurs,
- click the toolbar or slightly adjust it.
-
- The Script Wizard automatically places an "End Sub" at the end of
- procedures. Adding an "End Sub" in List View or Code View will result
- in two "End Sub" lines for one procedure. Use Notepad to remove the
- duplicate "End Sub" from .alx files.
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- 4.0 Known Issues - Microsoft HTML Layout Control
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- Printing any HTML page from IE 3.0 containing an HTML Layout Control will
- fail if a control within the layout has the focus.