Setting the UUID for a VB OCX

[kevki...@gmail.com]

The company I am working for are currently updating Adobe Reader
installations from Acrobat 5.x to Reader 8.x.
However, we will run in to an issue with an older application, for
which we no longer have the source code.

The issue is that Acrobat 5 and 6 both came with PDF.OCX, which was
used quite a bit in our applications. Reader 8.x has replaced this
with AcroPDF.DLL, which means that compatibility has been lost.

I can wrapper the relevant control in AcroPDF.DLL in to a new PDF.OCX
with the same ProgID, functionality and accessors, but this does not
help as I need to also set the UUID, to keep the older applications
unaware of any changes.

Does anyone know a way of setting the UUID for a VB OCX, or are you
aware of a work around for an issues like this?

Many thanks,

Kev K

[Lance Wynn]

I wonder if you can compile it with binary compatibility pointed at the
adobe PDF.OCX. I have never tried this, but perhaps it would work.

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[kevki...@gmail.com]

Hi Lance,

That was the first thing I thought of, however it raises the following
error: A compatible ActiveX component must be a Visual Basic
executable or a DLL.

I know it would be possible to do this with VC++, then set the UUID.
The problem there being that I am not proficient enough in VC++ to do
it.
I also thought of playing with the Type Library Editor that comes with
the "Advanced Visual Basic 6" by Matthew Curland (www.powervb.com),
but I could not figure out how to fake a VB controls UUID.

It's at this point that I decided to try the groups. Hoping that
someone with VC++ experience had come across the same problem.

Cheers,

Kev K

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