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Event Driven Programming

Now click on “Show Selected Value in ActiveX Exe” button to see the item that is selected in
ActiveX Exe. Here the number/alphabet selected in ActiveX passed to Standard Exe.

Figure 2.13: ActiveX-13; Control is passed back to the Main (Standard EXE). Below shows the
item that was selected in ActiveX Exe.

Figure 2.14: The selected number is displayed in the Main (Standard EXE).
As you can see, in the above example, we have selected “numbers” in the Standard EXE, and later
selected “2” in the ActiveX EXE. The number “2” is passed on to the Standard EXE upon request.

This is only a brief example provided to demonstrate the concept. Practically,
the ActiveX EXE/DLL could be quite large, such as a calculator. The calling
program may be a Text Editor.

2.1.3 Creating a Data Report
Once the Data Environment has been created, we can create a Data Report. We will drag things
out of the Data Environment onto a form created for the Data Report, so make sure your Data
Environment window is still available.

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