Thanks everyone for your help, Just was not thinking straight and should have known it was .docs. Mac
On 05/08/2010, at 9:09 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: > > On 04/08/2010, at 12:38 PM, Malcolm McCallum wrote: > >> >> >> I have been sent an .ocx file which 'pages' has happily opened but when I >> send it to my daughter whose computer is on the darkside she cannot open it >> :-( >> >> Where do I go next? >> >> >> Mac >> >> > > While the general suggestion has been made that your .ocx file may be > interpreted as a misnamed ".docx" file, this may not necessarily be the case. > Taken from <http://www.file-extensions.org/ocx-file-extension>, the following > is their explanation of the .ocx file extension: > > File extension OCX description: > An OCX is an Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) custom control, a > special-purpose program that can be created for use by applications running > on Microsoft's Windows systems. OCXs provide such functions as handling > scroll bar movement and window resizing. If you have a Windows system, you'll > find a number of files in your Windows directory with the OCX file name > suffix. > Object Linking and Embedding was designed to support compound documents > (which contain multiple information types, such as text, graphic images, > sound, motion video). The Windows desktop is an example of a compound > document and Microsoft used OLE to build it. OLE and the Component Object > Model (COM), a more general concept that succeeded OLE, support the > development of "plug-and-play" programs that can be written in any language > and used dynamically by any application in the system. These programs are > known as components and the application in which they are run is known as a > container. This component-based approach to application development reduces > development time and improves the program capability and quality. Windows > application development programs such as PowerBuilder and Microsoft Access > take advantage of OCXs. > Microsoft now calls an OCX an ActiveX control, the component object under > Microsoft's set of ActiveX technologies, of which the fundamental concept is > the Component Object Model (COM) and, in a network, the Distributed Component > Object Model (DCOM). > An OCX or ActiveX control is actually implemented as a dynamic link library > DLL module. (You can think of a DLL program as a "subprogram" that can be > used by any number of application programs, each of which is a "container" > for the DLL or OCX/ActiveX control "object.") Visual Basic and C++ are > commonly used to write OCX or ActiveX controls. > > Clear as mud? Thought so. The fact that the file opened for you in Pages is > probably a happy coincidence. Take Daniel K's suggestion: export it as a Word > or PDF file and send that to your daughter. This simply reinforces the fact > that the three-character file extension is one of the greatest crimes against > the world of computing that Microsoft has committed in its long existence, > and there have been plenty of others. The great tragedy is that has forced > everyone else, even Apple, to comply purely for compatibility reasons. > > Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services > FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer > Perth, Western Australia > Phone (618) 9332 6482 Mob 0403 064 948 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
