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- FOBS ActiveX Plugin - ActiveX Plugin for Netscape (and IE) browsers
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- 1. Abstract
-
- FOBS ActiveX Plugin is a browser plugin that enables the deployment of
- ActiveX controls in Netscape (and IE) browsers.
- FOBS ActiveX Plugin is especially suited
- for VB (Visual Basic) programmers that want to develop
- cross-browser WEB enabled applications.
- FOBS ActiveX Plugin is a shareware program.
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- 2. Installation
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- To use the plugin, you have to copy NPFOBSAX.DLL to the browser's
- plugins directory
- (e.g. C:\Program Files\Netscape\Communicator\Program\Plugins).
-
-
- 3. Using the plugin
-
- To use the plugin, simply add an "embed" tag as following:
-
- <embed
- src="test1.FBS"
- TYPE = "application/x-fobs-activex-plugin"
- border="0"
- width="500"
- height="400"
- name="test1"
- >
-
- Notes:
- * The FBS file contains instructions for the plugin (see section 4).
- * The height and width are controlled from the EMBED tag.
- * The file extension should be FBS.
- * The FBS file should reside next to the HMTL file or full path
- should be provided.
- * The plugin creates an instance of the ActiveX control specified
- in the FBS file - The FBS file holds the name of the ActiveX
- control (see section 4).
- * You can create many instances of the plugin in one page.
- Each of them may host any ActiveX control.
- * The same HTML file is good for all browsers
- (i.e. IE, Netscape browsers etc.).
- * Internet Explorer should also must have the plugin installed in
- its Plugins directory.
-
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- 4. The FBS file
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- The FBS file contains information about the ActiveX control to be
- instantiated.
-
- The FBS file is a text file.
- Its structure is as following:
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- Line 1 - ActiveX control name.
- Line 2 - Reserved for future use.
- Rest of file - User data.
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- 4.1 Line 1 - ActiveX control name
- This string may contain the OLE "short name" (ProgID) for the
- class, e.g., "CIRC3.Circ3Ctrl.1".
- The name needs to match the same name registered by the
- control.
- Alternatively, the string may contain the string form of a
- CLSID, contained in braces, e.g.,
- "{9DBAFCCF-592F-101B-85CE-00608CEC297B}".
-
- Examples:
- 1. Short name - "Project1.UserControl1"
- 2. Class ID - "{EAC15A54-9D6A-11D2-95B8-004095040767}"
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- 4.2 Line 2
- This line is reserved for future use.
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- 4.3 Rest of file
- The user data is available for the ActiveX control upon
- initialization (UserControl_Initialize) in the
- file C:\FOBSAX.FBS.
- C:\FOBSAX.FBS contains the entire FBS file.
- You may use the user-data area to set initialize
- property values for the ActiveX Control.
- For more details on this please contact us (see section 9
- "Company information").
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- 5. Client installation
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- The ActiveX control must be installed on the client machine.
- The plugin should reside on the browser's plugins directory.
-
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- 6. Redistribution
-
- You can freely distribute NPFOBSAX.DLL.
-
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- 7. Pricing
-
- If you like this product you are kindly requested to
- pay 30 $ (U.S. Dollars) for each developer workstation that
- is used to develop components for deployment using FOBS ActiveX Plugin.
- Runtime use is free.
- To register your copy of the shareware, please
- contact Atzmon Hen-tov <atzi@fobstech.com>.
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- 8. Example project
-
- An example VB project is included.
- This example is intended for computer specialists.
- The example consists of:
- 1. A VB ActiveX Control Project (Project1.UserControl1).
- 2. An example HTML file that uses Project1.UserControl1.
- 3. An Example FBS file.
-
- To use the example:
- 1. Copy the plugin (NPFOBSAX.DLL) to your browser's plugin folder
- (e.g. C:\Program Files\Netscape\Communicator\Program\Plugins).
- 2. Register Project1.OCX (on the registry):
-
- 2.1 Compile Project1 to create Project1.OCX
-
- OR
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- 2.2 Use REGSVR32.EXE to register Project1.OCX.
-
- 3. Enter testPlugin.htm.
- 4. Enjoy yourself.
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- 9. Company information
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- FOBS_ACTIVEX Plugin is a product of:
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- FOBS Systems LTD.
- 10 Ben Gurion St.
- Ramat-Gan 52573
- Israel
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- Contacts:
- EMAIL: Atzmon Hen-tov <atzi@fobstech.com>
- DOWNLOAD: ftp://ftp.fobstech.com/NPFOBSAX/NPFOBS11.ZIP
- WEB: http://www.fobstech.com
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- 10. Changes from version 1.1
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- 1. Size of Plugin reduced to 224 KB (from 1326 KB).
- 2. The plugin now supports instantiation by class ID (see 4.1).
- 3. The sample project includes an example for setting properties
- of the ActiveX control.
-