Thanks Nick, that does sound like a neat approach, but like Scott said, sometimes explaining an upgrade process can be an "hair-pulling" exercise....
But I still like your approach, because if it does become too difficult, then you just change your URL in your web page to always pick up the latest OCX, instead of the local one... P.S. I glad to hear that you are beginning to like Delphi. P.P.S. Delphi 7 will also have a .NET compiler as well, and if it keeps with Delphi tradition, it will be dead-easy to use, just like what they did with SOAP (automatic WDSL generation etc)... -----Original Message----- From: Nick Middleweek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 13 August 2002 12:38 To: ActiveServerPages Subject: RE: activeserverpages digest: August 12, 2002 I once read that this possible... Instead of downloading a Java Applet each time, you can ask the client to dowload it and install it locally once. Then in yuor web page you point to the local location instead of an Internet URL. You could apply the same technique to using OCX controls? This will obviously speed up the whole process. If you need them to upgrade, you can probably do a check from inside your OCX and connect to a remote URL to check and display an alert that newer version needs to be used. HTH, Nick p.s. Delphi all the way! :-) :> -----Original Message----- :> Yeah I see what you mean Scott....now that you put it into perspective, :> installing a 700K OCX is better than downloading a few meg Adobe :> Reader and :> installing that... :> :> Two more questions: (I'm a little unfamiliar with OCX's on web pages) :> 1) If you clear your temporary internet files, does is also :> clear your OCX's :> (and they will have to download again), or do your OCX's sit in your :> downloaded program files? :> 2) If I update the OCX, will the client-side automatically :> detect this, and :> download the latest version? :> :> He he he, sometimes it's not just user stupidity you :> underestimate, but in :> my case, once you explain, I'll understand and never forget... :> :> Thanks Scott... --- You are currently subscribed to activeserverpages as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% --- You are currently subscribed to activeserverpages as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
