COMCTL32.DLL

Birch Champeon

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Oct 23, 1997, 3:00:00 AM10/23/97

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I would like to use some of the functionality that the new common control
dll adds for List controls, but my clients will not be happy to download
IE40 so they can use my program.

Now that IE4.0 has officially released, had the redistribution license for
the new comctl32.dll changed?

Are they're any documents, and examples on using this functionality that I
should look at? Everything I've seen so far has been pretty vague.

Does the comctl32.dll work fine with NT40?

Thanks,
Birch

Jim Marshall

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Oct 23, 1997, 3:00:00 AM10/23/97

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The DLL is not redistrabutable. Your clients must have IE4. Write or call
MS to complain.

Tim Gilman

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Oct 23, 1997, 3:00:00 AM10/23/97

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In article <eyQOf$B48G...@upnetnews02.moswest.msn.net>,

Jim Marshall <jim_ma...@email.msn.com> wrote:
>The DLL is not redistrabutable. Your clients must have IE4. Write or call
>MS to complain.

The word I've heard on this group is that MS won't allow you to
redistribute because it is still "in beta." Funny, I've never
agreed to be a beta tester, but it was installed onto my system
when I installed VC++5 because that NEEDS IE.

These new controls were also documented in MSJ over a year ago.
This has to be the longest running "beta" I've ever seen.

I don't mind MS controlling the distribution license of their
software. I just feel they aren't being forthcoming about the
real reason behind it.

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Tim D. Gilman <remove DELETETHIS from the address when replying)
http://www.best.com/~tdgilman

Bendik Engebretsen

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Oct 24, 1997, 3:00:00 AM10/24/97

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> I don't mind MS controlling the distribution license of their
> software. I just feel they aren't being forthcoming about the
> real reason behind it.

I agree!! This is just another of those sticks that MS pulls to get IE
stuffed into every PC in this universe, and bury Netscape under 6ft...

As I see it, the WEB-browser is becoming the "OS", and MS wants so badly to
maintain their "OS-monopoly" in the PC world. The OS (DOS/Windows) has -
until now - been the very key of MS's success. Now, with the Internet and
Java stuff coming, the OS isn't going to be that important anymore, so they
have to extend their "monopoly" to include the WEB-browser as well.
Otherwise, their other software products (Word, Excel, etc.) won't have the
same advantages as they used to (using "undocumented" features of the OS,
etc, etc...) That's why MS are willing to do anything to keep their
"monopoly", and that's why we 3rd party developers have to suffer - as we
have so many times before...

Sometimes (quite often actually) I wonder why I didn't become a dustman
instead of a Windows programmer...

Bendik

John Vannoy

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Oct 24, 1997, 3:00:00 AM10/24/97

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Posted on www.codeguru.com by Roger Onslow on Monday, 20 October 1997,
at 4:11 a.m.

You can legally redistribute COMCTL32.DLL V4.70 by redistributing
COM32UPD.EXE - a program from MS which updates COMCTL32 (and a cuople
of other DLL's) to the new version.

However, at this stage, there is no equivalent for V4.71 (IE4
version). Also I don't know if COM32UPD.EXE workd for WinNT.

NOTE: You cannot redistribute just COMCTL32.DLL - you must include the
entire COM32UPD.EXE

BUT - for Win95 developers, it means you can have your cake and
redistribute it too :-)

Roger

On 23 Oct 1997 04:33:58 GMT, "Birch Champeon"