To view this document most effectively in Notepad, maximize screen and turn on Word Wrap (Edit menu). Microsoft® ActiveX Control Pad Beta 2 Release Notes © Copyright Microsoft Corporation, 1996. --------------------------------------------------- *** CONTENTS *** These release notes supplement the information in the the Microsoft ActiveX Control Pad Help file. 1.0 Support Information 2.0 Requirements 3.0 Installation 4.0 Known Issues - Microsoft ActiveX Control Pad 5.0 Known Issues - Microsoft HTML Layout Control 1.0 Support Information ----------------------- The Microsoft ActiveX Control Pad is a free, downloadable product. Microsoft has established an online newsgroup for this product that will be monitored by Microsoft Product Support engineers. Please use this newsgroup to provide feedback on the product, talk to other users, and to ask technical support questions. * To access this newsgroup using a newsgroup reader, enter the following news server address: msnews.microsoft.com. - The name of the newsgroup is: "activeX_controlpad_HTML_layout_control." * Or, you can use the following URL to access the newsgroup directly from a Web browser: news:microsoft.public.activeX_controlpad_HTML_layout_control. The newsreader available with Internet Explorer version 3.0 supports multiple news servers. You can download the newsreader from the Internet Explorer site (http://www.microsoft.com/ie/imn/). 2.0 Requirements for Microsoft ActiveX Control Pad --------------------------------------------------- To run Microsoft ActiveX Control Pad, you need the following: * A personal computer with a minimum 486 microprocessor running Microsoft Windows 95 or Microsoft Windows NT Beta 2 * 16 MB of RAM * 10 MB of free disk space on your hard drive * Internet Explorer 3.0 Beta 2 2.0 Installing the Microsoft ActiveX Control Pad ------------------------------------------------ Before installing Microsoft ActiveX Control Pad, make sure that you have Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 Beta 2 installed on your machine. To install the Microsoft ActiveX Control Pad, download the setup file from: http://www.microsoft.com/workshop/author/ After downloading SETUPPAD.EXE to your system: 1. Run SETUPPAD.EXE. 2. Follow the setup instructions on your screen. 3. Open the ActiveX Control Pad README file from the Windows 95 Start menu to review important information about the product. Note: Microsoft ActiveX Control Pad includes the HTML Layout control. You don't need to download and install the HTML Layout control separately. 3.0 Known Issues - Microsoft ActiveX Control Pad ------------------------------------------------ HTML Layouts authored with the Beta 1 release of the Microsoft ActiveX Control Pad that contain tags with the "DATA=DATA:..." attribute will not work with this release. Replace "DATA:" with "DATA:APPLICATION/X-OLEOBJECT;BASE64," to upgrade an HTML Layout to work with Beta 2. The License Manager Object should not be inserted in the .alx file. To use licensed controls in an HTML document, the license manager information should be inserted directly into the HTML document. Comments inside a
block are not preserved. To preserve comments in the .alx file, place them outside the
block. When you are setting properties in the Script Wizard's List view, the "Color" button returns the HEX code in RRGGBB format (e.g. - #FF00FF) for the color selected. Inserting HTML Layouts in HTML files requires an absolute path unless the layout being inserted is in the same directory or a subdirectory as the HTML file. When scripting elements on an HTML page, the Script Wizard removes extra whitespace and extra carriage returns from the file. Low memory may cause certain images to be downloaded incorrectly, resulting in the loss of image data. The Script Wizard does not check for duplicate procedure and object names. The bgColor property of the HTML Layout cannot be set to a system color (i.e., any of the colors in the dropdown list in the property page). The Microsoft Forms 2.0 MultiPage Control, and the Microsoft Forms 2.0 Frame Control will not work in HTML or in an .alx file. Z-Order commands cannot be undone using the Undo command (Edit Menu). tags placed in HTML that are larger then 2K will not be instantiated by Internet Explorer. Controls with ID's that contain spaces may cause the Script Wizard to stop responding. To ensure scripting that works, do not use ID's with spaces. Setting the MousePointer property will only show black & white icon at runtime. When persisting URL properties, the Control Pad does not persist the REF attribute in the tag. This attribute is used by certain tools to do link fixup. Use document-relative URL's to avoid link fixup issues. When commenting VBScript code, use "REM" instead of the "'" character. Redocking the toolbar may cause it to become dimmed. If this occurs, click the toolbar or slightly adjust it. The Script Wizard automatically places an "End Sub" at the end of procedures. Adding an "End Sub" in List View or Code View will result in two "End Sub" lines for one procedure. Use Notepad to remove the duplicate "End Sub" from .alx files. 4.0 Known Issues - Microsoft HTML Layout Control ------------------------------------------------ Printing any HTML page from IE 3.0 containing an HTML Layout Control will fail if a control within the layout has the focus.