54263 - ActiveX Wrapper will not load at all in VB

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core Graveyard :: Embedding: ActiveX Wrapper, defect, P3)

Description

[Howard Ryan]

Downloaded mozilla-win32.zip Sunday, September 26, 1999, 10:14 AM.

Wiped out controls ability to load in design mode.

Running on Win98 with VB6 and SP4.

Prior to dl, control opened fine in VB IDE.

VB Freezes when I attempt to open form with ctrl in the IDE.

Comment 1

[Adam Lock]

I think this may be a configuration problem. Ensure that:

1. You change your PATH environment variable to point to
   the new Mozilla bin directory
2. Update the registry entry for
   "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Mozilla\BinDirectoryPath"
   to the path.
3. Re-register the new control with regsvr32

Please let me know if this makes it work. Please also check if you have 
"components\webbrwsr.dll". The control won't work without it. The 
mozilla-win32-installer.exe definitely doesn't install that dll but you are 
using the zip version which should have it. I'm raising a separate bug on 
the missing dll problem.

Comment 2

[Howard Ryan]

The file webbrwsr.dll (Tuesday, September 26, 2000 9:38:06 AM) was in the build 
I installed.  So Im confused why you think it is missing.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Mozilla\BinDirectoryPath points to the "bin" folder 
fine in my MOZ path.

I re-registered the ctrl and still no good.

Cannot compile app.  Cannot open form w/ctrl in IDE.

I changed ONLY the Mozilla files.  All the enviornment seetings, registry 
settings, directory structure are the same as they were in a previous version 
of the ctrl that loaded.

Comment 3

[Howard Ryan]

OK Adam.  

Im not sure how this worked, but I got the ctrl to load.  

I always extract the Mozilla-Win32 file "over" my existing Mozilla files.  I 
went ahead and deleted all the Mozilla files then re-installed/extracted the 
zip file.  This made the ctrl load fine.  

I find it hard to believe that WinZip didnt overwrite all of my existing files 
as I ofen checked the timestamps to verify and they were always the latest.

Maybe this scenario may prove helpfull to someone else, otherwise...I hope this 
didnt waste too much time.  An apparent NON bug issue.  

Comment 4

[Adam Lock]

Thanks for the update. I'm marking the bug as invalid.

Bug 54345 deals with the missing DLL.

Comment 5

[Blake Ross]

vrfy invalid