Chapter 18 Jaguar ActiveX Overview

Requirements

ActiveX component requirements

The following list describes software and hardware requirements for developing ActiveX components.

All software that is required to run ActiveX components on a Jaguar server is supplied with the Jaguar product.

Development
To create ActiveX components, you need an ActiveX-enabled IDE. The following list shows some of the many IDEs you can use:
- Visual C++ 4.0 or later
- Visual Basic 5.0 or later
Jaguar provides native, built-in support for PowerBuilder libraries. Though PowerBuilder supports ActiveX development, Sybase recommends that you use Jaguar's native PowerBuilder support to run PowerBuilder objects in Jaguar.
Runtime
ActiveX components can run only on Jaguar servers running on Windows NT 4.0 workstations.

ActiveX client requirements

Jaguar's ActiveX client model allows you to invoke Jaguar components from ActiveX enabled IDEs such as Visual Basic.

To develop and run ActiveX clients, you need:

An ActiveX-enabled IDE. The following list includes some of the ActiveX-enabled IDEs you can use:
- Visual Basic 4.0 or later
- Visual C++ 4.0 or later
C++ client and ActiveX runtime files, which includes jagproxy.dll, the required .tlb and .reg files, and the C++ DLLs required for use with an ActiveX CORBA client. See the Enterprise Application Server Installation Guide for Windows or the Enterprise Application Studio Installation Guide for Windows for instructions on installing the client runtime.
Jaguar server on any platform.
Type libraries (you generate these files using Jaguar Manager).
Registry files (you generate these files using Jaguar Manager).
The Microsoft tool uuidgen.exe, which is provided with Jaguar on NT, must be installed on the Jaguar server. The Microsoft tool midl.exe must be installed on your client machine and specified in the path. midl.exe must support the /tlb command-line option. You can issue this command to see the options that your midl.exe version supports:
```
midl /?
```
midl.exe is distributed by Microsoft as part of their development tools and as part of the Win32 SDK. Many tools from other vendors include a redistribution of the Win32 SDK. Visual C++ 4.2 or higher contain the correct version of midl.exe. You can also download midl.exe from the Microsoft Developer Network web site. See the readme.htm in your Jaguar installation to find the Microsoft Developer Network URL.

Make sure that an older version of midl.exe is not located in a directory that is specified prior to the current midl.exe directory in the PATH environment variable.
Jaguar Manager on Windows NT 4.0.
See the Enterprise Application Server Installation Guide for Windows or the Enterprise Application Studio Installation Guide for Windows for additional system requirements.