Internet Explorer ActiveX Control

ActiveX Controls have been deprecated by Microsoft in the latest versions of the Windows operating system in favor of the DotNet framework and its controls.

While MAXScript still supports ActiveX controls, these have to be installed and registered on the system to be accessible to MAXScript.

As a replacement of ActiveX controls, MAXScript supports DotNet controls in 3ds Max 9 and higher.

The following example should still work though since Internet Explorer continues to provide ActiveX controls for backwards compatibility.

The following example creates an Internet Explorer browser control in a rollout and registers it as extended viewport.

Pick "Web Page" from the Extended Views menu to display the rollout in the webpage. Also click various hypertext links to see the text change in the viewports

SAMPLE SCRIPT

   rollout rWebpage "Web page"
   (
   local txtObj
   local vpsz = getViewSize()
   activeXControl ax "http://www.yahoo.com" height:(vpsz.y-50) width:(vpsz.x-50) align:#center
   fn checkTextObject =
   (
   if $text01 == undefined then
   (
   txtObj = text text:"" name:"text01"
   addModifier txtObj (extrude amount:10)
   txtObj.wirecolor = red
   )
   else ( txtObj = $text01 )
   )
   on rWebpage open do ( checkTextObject() )
   on ax TitleChange txt do
   (
   checkTextObject()
   if not (matchPattern txt pattern:"http:") then
   (
   if txtObj.text != text then
   (
   print txt
   txtObj.text = txt
   max tool zoomextents all
   )
   ).y
   addRollout rWebPage fWebPage
   registerViewWindow fWebPage
   showProperties rWebpage.ax
   )
   )
   fWebPage = newRolloutFloater "Web page" rWebpage.vpsz.x rWebpage.vpsz.y
   addRollout rWebPage fWebPage

   registerViewWindow fWebPage
   showProperties rWebpage.ax