I installed a privately made windows program through ‘wine’ and I get an error “activeX component can’t create object.”
Is there an equivalent that can do the job or a way to circumvent the problem?
Can anyone help?
Do you have the DLL for the said activeX object installed?
No. I’m quite new to Linux and although I read in older threads about installing the appropriate dll files, the threads were always about widespread programs and links were given for downloading the said dll file. However, my program is not one you would find online as it is made by a private person where I live and so I don’t know where or how to get the appropriate dll or how to to install it.
Thanks so much for your help I really appreciate it!!
You might look at
winetricks - The Official Wine Wiki
I have the .dll the .ocx and the .tlb files now what do I do?
thanks for you help!
I checked the wine file and found that the files appear in the system32 folder in the c: drive yet still the program gives me the same message.
can anyone help??
In windows the dll must be registered to use the activeX interface. So I guess you must register them. In wine I don’t know how that is done though.
Thank you anyway, I hope someone else will be able to help.
This may help but don’t know if it works in wine. You may want to check on the wine board I’m sure others have seen this.
activex registration - Google Search
Google is your friend
Thank you, I registered the .dll and .ocx files only a .tlb file failed with this ‘wine regsvr32 .’
Yet, I still get an error message ‘activex component can’t create object’ when I try to run the program.
I’m beginning to be afraid that I’ll have to resort to running windows 
Thank you ‘gogalthorp’ for your help, I am much obliged. If you have any more to offer I am ever so thankful!
You can run Windows in a VM like Virtual Box. Thats what I do. I develop Windows programs so must run it. 
On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:56:02 GMT, lionofgod
<lionofgod@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
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>Thank you anyway, I hope someone else will be able to help.
OK with the stuff present in system32 try removing the program and
reinstalling the program. Check in between to make sure that your dlls
etc., are still there.
Thank you Joshephkk I tried but it did not help, thanks for the attempt.
And gogalthorp, I am quite ignorant as far as opensuse is concerned and don’t know how to go about running windows virtually. Can you help or direct me to a ‘useful’ file on how to do so?
Thank you very much for all your help!
Follow instructions here