SHARING INFORMATION WITH OTHER APPLICATIONS
Your organization may create or acquire OLE custom controls from various manufacturers and provide the controls for you to use in Lotus NotesR. Some controls may not provide online Help for their application. Also, there are certain controls you have to do some programming to use. You can insert these into Lotus Notes manually, but you can't do much with them without programming.
Peform any of the following tasks related to controls.
To create a control
1. With the document in Edit mode, click in a rich-text field.
2. Click Create > Object.
3. Do one of the following:
To edit a control
1. With the document in Edit mode, click the control object.
2. Click any of the following from the Applet menu:
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For more information on design, see LotusR Domino Designer Help if you have it installed. Or, go to Lotus Documentation on the Web to download or view Lotus Domino Designer Help.
Note: If you are a designer, you can modify the behavior of the control by changing its events using LotusScriptR. For example, you can modify the Click event to open a message box when a user clicks the control.
For more information on both types of properties, see Modifying an OLE object or ActiveX custom control using Lotus Notes properties.
4. To save the new data, click File > Save.
To copy an entire control, a picture of a control, or data from a control
1. With the document in Edit mode, click the control and select the data you want to copy.
2. Do one of the following:
4. Click Edit > Paste.
To expand a control
2. Click Applet > Object Properties.
3. In the Applet properties box, click one of the following:
5. Save and close the document.
6. Reopen the document in Edit mode.
Lotus Notes
If the Lotus Notes document contains information below the layout region, you cannot view that information while the object is expanded.
If the document contains two or more layout regions, the object expands below the first layout region. You cannot view the other layout regions.
You can tell Lotus Notes to allow changes to a control object from Read mode.
After you have set this property, you can change the object and print the changes while in Read mode, but to save changes to the object, you must edit and save the document.
Note: Some control objects do not render anything for display in Read mode. Setting this property forces the object to display.
3. In the Applet properties box, select "Run object when reading document."
4. Close the Applet properties box.
6. Reopen the document.
To delete a control from a document
Edit the document, drag over the control object and click Edit > Delete. In the message that says the operation cannot be undone, click Yes.
To remove a control from the list of controls
When you remove a control from the list, it also removes the control from the Windows registry. You can add a control back to the list and restore it to the registry at any time.
1. In a rich-text field, click Create > Object.
2. Click Control.
3. In the list, select the control you want to remove and click Remove Control from List.
4. Click OK in the warning dialog box that appears.
5. (Optional) To restore the control to the list and registry, click Add Control to List, browse the operating system to locate the necessary .ocx file, and click OK.
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