ActiveX Object Could not be created

[Rabbani]

Hi,

We recently removed the previous version of OWC10
(10.0.0.4109) as it was giving an error when we were
dragging an expanded dimension from Row area of the Pivot
table and dropping it in the Filter area. As we drag the
dimension from the row area to the filter area, the "IE
error occurred" dialog box is coming up and prompting to
send the error report. After that, the IE is closing or
getting redirected to the default home page of the
Internet Explorer.



We downloaded the latest updated version (10.0.0.5851) in
the hope that this might solve the above problem from
Microsoft site (Published on 11/21/2003) at

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?
FamilyID=982B0359-0A86-4FB2-A7EE-
5F3A499515DD&displaylang=EN

To our surprise this latest version is not working at all.
It is unable to create/instantiate the pivot table/pivot
chart object and giving the "ActiveX Object Could not be
created" error. There is no documentation what so ever
about this latest update to owc10.exe.

Our development work been hindered due to this and we had
very hard time figuring out how to solve the earlier
problem as described above with (10.0.0.4109) OR how to
make the latest version work.

Any suggestions will be appreciated.

Thanks

 

[Alvin Bruney]

Have you tried manually registering the new OWC dll from a command line
prompt?

 

[Rabbani]

Hi Alvin,

Thanks for your reply. Yes, it works after i manually
register the DLL from command line prompt. But how can i
ask the users to do the same.

Can you please give some insight into this problem?

Thanks,
Rabbani

 

[Alvin Bruney]

It's a quirk in the installation. I remember struggling with this for a
couple of days until Dan suggested I re-register the dll. It is supposed to
be registered correctly with the setup program initially.

Most of the times it will work otherwise you will have to have your users do
the manual registration. It's a better idea to write a customer installation
shell which forces a registration. An example of a custom install would be
to use script to attempt to create the object in the page_load routine
clientside.

Set objOWC = CreateObject("OWC10.Chartspace")
if(objOWC is nothing) then
'shell out here to do a regsvr32 on owc10.dll

it's a good idea as well to check the version number on the client's desktop
to ensure compatibility objOWC.version i believe will give you what you
want.