Detect ActiveX

[David C]

I have an ASP.Net page that displays documents as hyperlinks from a network
folder (intranet application). I also have a column that contains a
hyperlink to open the document in Microsoft Word. All works fine unless
someone has ActiveX disabled on their browser. Is there any way I can
detect that so I can give them a warning?

The script for opening a Word document is below. Thanks.

-David

<script language="javas cript" type="text/javascript">

function openWord(spath)
{
var pause = 0;
var wdDialogFileOpe n = 80;
var wdApp = new ActiveXObject(" Word.Applicatio n");
wdApp.Visible = 'True';
var wdDoc = wdApp.Documents ;
wdDoc.Open(spat h);
document.form1. submit();
}

</script>

[Alexey Smirnov]

Re: Detect ActiveX

On Nov 11, 7:06 pm, "David C" <dlch...@lifeti meinc.comwrote:

I have an ASP.Net page that displays documents as hyperlinks from a network
folder (intranet application). I also have a column that contains a
hyperlink to open the document in Microsoft Word.  All works fine unless
someone has ActiveX disabled on their browser.  Is there any way I can
detect that so I can give them a warning?
>
The script for opening a Word document is below.  Thanks.
>
-David
>
<script language="javas cript" type="text/javascript">
>
function openWord(spath)
{
    var pause = 0;
    var wdDialogFileOpe n = 80;
    var wdApp = new ActiveXObject(" Word.Applicatio n");
    wdApp.Visible = 'True';
    var wdDoc = wdApp.Documents ;
    wdDoc.Open(spat h);
    document.form1. submit();
>
}
>
</script>

Hi David,

I think you can simply add the try..catch block to check the result of
ActiveXObject

try {

var wdApp = new ActiveXObject(" Word.Applicatio n");
wdApp.Visible = 'True';
var wdDoc = wdApp.Documents ;
wdDoc.Open(spat h);
document.form1. submit();

} catch (er) {

alert('You have no Word ActiveX');

}