Agree. As you state the name of the ActiveX is in a lot of cases not the
name how it appears in the list to select from

Chris Spencer
TUFware Systems

"Marco Kuipers" <marco.kuipers@nci.com.au> wrote in message
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> Hi fellow developers,
>
> It sometimes can drive me nuts, trying to locate this new activeX that you
> just downloaded and installed.
>
> After some two years on the machine, I've got 196 objects to choose from.
> Probably some of you even have more.
>
> The documentation of the activeX, almost never states the name of the
> component as how I can find it back in the list.
>
> I was thinking about the following major improvements that could be done
> in the studio:
> 1. Search by keyword (in the list of the screen)
>
> perhaps even
>
> 2. Search by DLL/OCX name (this is often in the documentation, and is
> displayed on the screen, it just takes a lot of time scrolling though all,
> if it is not obvious).
>
> or even
>
> 3. Where somehow, you could 'save' the list before you install a new
> component. Then after you installed it, you could perhaps select 'new ones
> only'.
>
> Am I the only one with this problem?
>
> Regards,
> Marco Kuipers
> South Australia