CompuServe Thread

#OCX Controls

4 messages in this thread
#30258From: Don GrasbergerJul 8, 1994 7:36 AM
>> We are trying to get away from the OCX label and are simply calling them OLE controls. << … [reply] >> Thanks for the OCX info – yes it helps (lets see… summer started when?) -jim- << FWIW… I think you're going to have trouble killing the OCX label, it just too darn convenient a way to refer to, well, OCXs. "OLE controls" is less efficient, (to my mind) ungainly and arguably more ambiguous. Just what's wrong with "OCX" anyway? Don
#30313From: Chris BoaroJul 8, 1994 3:47 PM
Yeah, and besides, don't these Microsofties know that EVERYTHING in the computer industry has to have a 3 letter abbreviation??! I mean, we got MFC, MDI, VBX, TCP, PCX, GIF, MCI, WFW, etc etc etc… "OLE Control"? I don't think so. Chris
#30589From: Mary Kirtland [MFCJ]Jul 11, 1994 8:42 PM
>> Just what's wrong with "OCX" anyway? Maybe they don't want to explain what the "X" stands for… Mary
#30595From: Steve McAdamsJul 11, 1994 9:13 PM
They don't mind not explaining it as applied to AFX, why should it bother them when applied to OCX? (If this is really a problem for them they need to apply some imagination and make up a believeable meaning for it<g>.) -steve