so... is activex completly dead in 2009?

[Anonymous]

in the "its not you its me" vein...
I have a brand new machine with windows XP, along with a fresh install of 2009
NONE of my activex controls work anymore, every single one of them is dead.

so i am working on converting them over to dotnet, and not having a very good time of it. I noticed that in all of the documentation, it still talks about active x like its alive and well.

I see no warnings about activex not being supported anymore, just a couple of small articles on converting treeviews and listviews to dotnet. seems that if autodesk killed activex off they would have a little more warning, or at least update the documentation to state clearly that activex is dead.

OR
I have something wrong with my machine/install...

Is there any way to get activex controls working on max 2009?

thanks.

[Anonymous]

in the "its not you its me" vein...
I have a brand new machine with windows XP, along with a fresh install of 2009
NONE of my activex controls work anymore, every single one of them is dead.

so i am working on converting them over to dotnet, and not having a very good time of it. I noticed that in all of the documentation, it still talks about active x like its alive and well.

I see no warnings about activex not being supported anymore, just a couple of small articles on converting treeviews and listviews to dotnet. seems that if autodesk killed activex off they would have a little more warning, or at least update the documentation to state clearly that activex is dead.

OR
I have something wrong with my machine/install...

Is there any way to get activex controls working on max 2009?

thanks.

Autodesk did not kill ActiveX. In fact, ActiveX support is still available in all Max versions.

MICROSOFT KILLED ACTIVEX.
In short, for WinXP 64 and Vista, Microsoft decided not to recompile/include the typical ActiveX controls like TreeView and ListView. (A fun fact - the Particle View of Particle Flow is a custom ActiveX control which ships with Max in the root folder and can be somewhat accessed via MAXScrtipt for fancy drawing exercises).

Since MAXScript still fully supports ActiveX controls AS LONG AS THEY EXIST ON THE SYSTEM, the related topics remain in the Help. Also, some people cross-code for several versions of Max at once (for example, we at Frantic have to support Krakatoa and Deadline from Max 8 upwards, which means switching between ActiveX and DotNet portions of the code depending on what Max version is detected). So it is a good idea not to remove information that could be useful when scripting for older versions inside the far superior editor of Max 2008/2009.

[Anonymous]

They work for me in XP sp2 (but not Vista). Try checking that your XP is up to date. Is your copy of XP 64 or 32 bit because I think but not sure that ActiveX only works in 32Bit XP.

[Anonymous]

I know autodesk didn't kill activex.... I was in the user advisory meetings back in 04 or so where we where talking about 64 bit not having activex. It was sigraph, i think i may have met you there bobo 🙂
It just surprised me that all of my internal stuff stopped working with 2009.

to be fair i got this new machine and max 9 on the same day.. that was why i was scratching my head about activex not working.
My machine is running the latest and greatest, software update says everything is up to date.

How do i "install" these activex controls if they are not already on my machine? nothing activex works for me (at least the big ones, treeview, listview, imagelist(for icons) etc)

I am using it as an excuse to rewrite a bunch of stuff and learn dotnet, so thats a positive, but it would be nice to have my old stuff working in the interim.

[Anonymous]

Hey Aaron,

Just install the old Max 8 copy without activateing/licencing it,
and then uninstall it.

You should have all those missing activeX controls again.


Hope that helps,

Oded

[Anonymous]

ah, that makes sense.
It explains why my fresh machine is not working, since it has never seen a version of max older than 2009

isn't this something that autodesk should patch/fix? it seems like an omission in the 2009 distribution?

[Anonymous]

I'm having the same Active X issue, but I really do not want to re-code or re-tool my scripts. Let's call it being extremely lazy.

I tried the Max 8 route, but it didn't work. Though, Max 8 kept crashing on install. I think it was trying to install backburner 3, since I have 2k8 more than likely it was crapping itself.

I would really like to see a simple active x controls patch be put out by Autodesk, it would make much more sense.

Has anyone else gotten the Max 8 install to fix the active x issues in vista?

[keithm]

I've had the Max8 trick work on some machines and not others...

Yes: I was lazy too, but time marches on... you'll have to do it sooner or later...

I first used textpad to find all the .ms files with an ActiveX controller in them with the 'Search in files" feature.

Then order them in percent usage and/or importance.

Do one a day.

[Anonymous]

I posted this a short while ago. May be worth a try to see if this works;

http://area.autodesk.com/forum/autodesk-3ds-max/maxscript/how-to-get-activex-in-3dsmax-9+/