hi,

> Any recommendations for where to find a listing of ActiveX controls that
> might be available for using on a project?  Specifically, I think there
> might be an ActiveX control for Windows Messenger, which would let me
> notify various users on the LAN via a popup window when a particular
> something has happened.  I don't know how to go about finding whether this
> control does exist and what its properties are.  How does the Smart Set do
> this?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa240864(VS.60).aspx

Microsoft ADO Data Control 6.0         MSADODC.OCX ADO Data Control
Microsoft Chart Control 5.5                  MSCHART.OCX Microsoft  Chart
Microsoft Comm Control 6.0                         MSCOMM32.OCX   MSComm
Microsoft Common Dialog Control 6.0        COMDLG32. OCX  CommonDialog
Microsoft Data Bound Grid Control 5.0        DBGRID32.OCX   DBGrid
Microsoft Data Bound List Controls 6.0       DBLIST32.OCX   DBList, DBCombo
Microsoft Data Repeater Control 6.0            MSDATREP.OCX   DataRepeater
Microsoft Data Grid Control 6.0                     MSDATGRD.OCX   DataGrid
Microsoft Data List Controls 6.0            MSDATLST.OCX DataList, DataCombo
Microsoft FlexGrid Control 6.0               MSFLXGRD.OCX MSFlexGrid
Microsoft Grid Control                                      GRID32.OCX Grid
Microsoft Hierarchical Flex Grid Control 6.0  MSHFLXGD.OCX   MSHFlexGrid
Microsoft Internet Transfer Control 6.0  MSINET.OCX Internet Transfer 
control
Microsoft MAPI Controls6.0                   MSMAPI32.OCX MAPIMessages, 
MAPISession
Microsoft MaskedEdit Control 6.0         MSMASK32.OCX MaskedEdit
Microsoft Multimedia Control 6.0           MCI32.OCX Multimedia MCI
Microsoft PictureClip Control 6.0           PICCLP32.OCX PictureClip
Microsoft RemoteData Control 6.0        MSRDC20.OCX RemoteData
Microsoft RichTextBox Control 6.0         RICHTX32.OCX RichTextBox
Microsoft SysInfo Control 6.0                  SYSINFO.OCX SysInfo
Microsoft TabbedDialog Control 6.0      TABCTL32.OCX Microsoft Tab Control
Microsoft Windows Common Controls 6.0     MSCOMCTL.OCX TabStrip, Toolbar,
StatusBar, ProgressBar, TreeView, ListView, ImageList, Slider, ImageCombo

Microsoft Windows Common Controls-2 6.0   MSCOMCT2.OCX   Animation, UpDown,
MonthView, DTPicker, FlatScrollbar

Microsoft Windows Common Controls-3 6.0   COMCT332.OCX   CoolBar
Microsoft Winsock Control 6.0                           MSWINSCK.OCX WinSock

all these are "standart" *.OCX and on most M$ OS() Machine.
it woud be nice if Xbase++ woud work with all of them ...

if you like to know what each of them can do :
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa733701(VS.60).aspx

greetings by OHR
Jimmy