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- Readme.txt
-
- DESCRIPTION
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- This ActiveX control "SSCONTROL" provides HTML developers with a simple user-editable
- table allowing users to enter and edit information in a simple spreadsheet-like table.
- A few property settings allow row and column totalling to be enabled.
-
- With this control, you don't need
- (a) to link your HTML page to (version dependent) Excel or other libraries, or
- (b) assume your user has the latest browser version with dynamic HTML.
-
- This is a free-standing control not dependent upon installed software (apart from free
- self-installing Microsoft controls; refer below).
-
- This works with VBscript and Javascript. It has been tested with IE/VBscript and should work
- with Netscape in conjuntion with the Active-X enabling plugin (available elsewhere).
-
- Source Code (VB5) is provided free of charge. The control is based on Microsoft's FlexGrid
- control, provided with VB5, which is a read-only table control; the significant added
- functionality is in-cell user-editing of contents as well as conditional row/column totalling
- and other related wrapper properties, methods, and events facilitating manipulation by
- script(s) on an HTML page.
-
- This ActiveX control "SSCONTROL" is provided as FREEWARE and may be used, modified, and
- distributed by anyone at any time provided that a simple email is sent to
- "Dave.Walsh@roads.sa.gov.au" acknowledging the conditions:
-
- NO LIABILITY WHATSOEVER IS ACCEPTED BY ANYONE FOR ANYTHING AT ALL IN RELATION TO THIS
- SOFTWARE. USE AND/OR REDISTRIBUTION IS STRICTLY CONDITIONAL UPON INDEMNIFICATION FROM
- ANY AND ALL CLAIMS UPON THE AUTHORS AND DISTRIBUTERS. DO NOT USE THIS SOFTWARE IF YOU
- DO NOT ACCEPT THESE CONDITIONS.
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- INSTALLATION
- ------------
- The .ZIP file contains directories for both the control and source code. Unzip into a directory
- tree of your choice and invoke one of the example HTML files to install the compiled control.
-
- The control is automatically installed upon loading of the html page, via the "CODEBASE"
- statement in the <OBJECT> tag. The CODEBASE points to a .CAB file containing the control
- (note that the HTTP: path part of the .CAB reference has been omitted in all of HTML examples,
- so it will assume the same path as the originating HTML file).
-
- IMPORTANT INSTALLATION FYI
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- Be aware that the .CAB is constructed such that any required underlying native Microsoft
- ActiveX controls are automatically downloaded from the Microsoft ActiveX components WWW site
- and installed if they are not already on the browser's PC (ie the PC should be online to
- the WWW the 1st time you invoke it, probably via one of the examples).
-
- HOW-TO
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- The VB source code contains a list of the available properties, methods and events and some
- advice on the commmonly used ones.
-
- Refer to the provided example HTML files for how to invoke and manage the control.
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