TN IT304 How to determine which active x controls are used with your Intouch Project

Description

How to determine which active x controls are used with your Intouch project. This is helpful if the project is being upgraded or has been moved from the original pc.

• Author: Mike Viteri
• Published: 2/19/2018
• Applies to: Intouch 7.11 and greater

Details

When converting an Intouch application to a newer version or moving Intouch project to another pc you might see something like this below. This example is missing an active x control on the operating system. This is what you see.A square on the Intouch window. Once you click on the square it will tell you a control name. Sometimes it can be hard to determine exactly what the control is from the name. It will also give you a GUID at the bottom which is the Globally Unique Identifier. This can be used to track the name of the active x but after the upgrade it became all zeros.

If we go to a copy of the Intouch project folder before we performed the upgrade or moved the folder. We can locate a file called "itguid.cfg". This file will have a list of all the active x controls and the guid's.

Right click on the file and open it in notepad. Now we can see the control name and the guid. To better understand what active x control is used we can now take the guid and search for it in the registery on the computer the Intouch project came from. 

You can also enter the guid into Google for example it will usually return the which exact active x control was used(Do not used active x controls from the internet. Get them from a trusted source). In the example below the active x is called RICHTX32.ocx