The Exontrol's ExGrid control supports ActiveX hosting. The InsertItemControl method inserts an item that hosts an ActiveX control. The ItemOleEvent event notifies your application that a hosted ActiveX control fires an event. The ItemObject property gets the ActiveX object hosted by an item that is inserted using the InsertControlItem method. The ItemObject property gets nothing if the item doesn't host an ActiveX control, or if inserting an ActiveX control failed ).

The following VB sample adds an item that hosts the Exontrol Calendar Control and prints each event fired by that ActiveX control:

Grid1.Items.ItemHeight(Grid1.Items.InsertControlItem(, "Exontrol.Calendar")) = 256

Private Sub Grid1_ItemOleEvent(ByVal Item As EXGRIDLibCtl.HITEM, ByVal Ev As EXGRIDLibCtl.IOleEvent)
    Debug.Print "Event name:" & Ev.Name
    If (Ev.CountParam = 0) Then
        Debug.Print "The event has no arguments."
    Else
        Debug.Print "The event has the following arguments:"
        Dim i As Long
        For i = 0 To Ev.CountParam - 1
            Debug.Print Ev(i).Name; " = " & Ev(i).Value
        Next
    End If
End Sub

The following C++ sample displays the events that an ActiveX control is firing while it is hosted by an item:

 #import <exgrid.dll> rename( "GetItems", "exGetItems" )

static CString V2S( VARIANT* pv, LPCTSTR szDefault = _T("") )
{
	if ( pv )
	{
		if ( pv->vt == VT_ERROR )
			return szDefault;

		COleVariant vt;
		vt.ChangeType( VT_BSTR, pv );
		return V_BSTR( &vt );
	}
	return szDefault;
}

void OnItemOleEventGrid1(long Item, LPDISPATCH Ev) 
{
	EXGRIDLib::IOleEventPtr spEvent( Ev );
	CString strOutput;
	strOutput.Format( "Event's name: %s\n", spEvent->Name.operator const char *() );
	OutputDebugString( strOutput ); 
	if ( spEvent->CountParam == 0 )
		OutputDebugString( "The event has no parameters." ); 
	else
	{
		for ( long i = 0; i < spEvent->CountParam; i++ )
		{
			EXGRIDLib::IOleEventParamPtr spParam = spEvent->GetParam( COleVariant( i ) );
			strOutput.Format( "Name: %s, Value: %s\n", spParam->Name.operator const char *(), V2S( &spParam->Value ) );
			OutputDebugString( strOutput ); 
		}
	}
	OutputDebugString( "" ); 
}

The #import clause is required to get the wrapper classes for IOleEvent and IOleEventParam objects, that are not defined by the MFC class wizard. The same #import statement defines the EXGRIDLib namespace that include all objects and types of the control's TypeLibrary. In case your exgrid.dll library is located to another place than the system folder or well known path, the path to the library should be provided, in order to let the VC finds the type library.  

The following VB.NET sample displays the events that an ActiveX control is firing while it is hosted by an item:

Private Sub AxGrid1_ItemOleEvent(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As AxEXGRIDLib._IGridEvents_ItemOleEventEvent) Handles AxGrid1.ItemOleEvent
    Debug.WriteLine("Event's name: " & e.ev.Name)
    Dim i As Long
    For i = 0 To e.ev.CountParam - 1
        Dim eP As EXGRIDLib.OleEventParam
        eP = e.ev(i)
        Debug.WriteLine("Name: " & e.ev.Name & " Value: " & eP.Value)
    Next
End Sub

The following C# sample displays the events that an ActiveX control is firing while it is hosted by an item:

private void axGrid1_ItemOleEvent(object sender, AxEXGRIDLib._IGridEvents_ItemOleEventEvent e)
{
	System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine( "Event's name: " + e.ev.Name.ToString() );
	for ( int i= 0; i < e.ev.CountParam ; i++ )
	{
		EXGRIDLib.IOleEventParam evP = e.ev[i];
		System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine( "Name: " + evP.Name.ToString() + ", Value: " + evP.Value.ToString() );
	}
}

The following VFP sample displays the events that an ActiveX control fires when it is hosted by an item:

*** ActiveX Control Event ***
LPARAMETERS item, ev

local s
s = "Event's name: " + ev.Name
for i = 0 to ev.CountParam - 1
		s = s +  "Name: " + ev.Param(i).Name + " ,Value: " + Str(ev.Param(i).Value)
endfor
wait window nowait s

 

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