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Thank you for your enquiry.

An OCX is a COM component/object, which must be used in the same way with any scripting language. The component’s ProgID is used to create an instance; eg. if your OCX is “AllenKey”, implemented in the file AcmeTools.OCX, the ProgId might be “AcmeTools.AllenKey”.

Here is a sample VBScript function to create and return an instance of the Microsoft Word Application object:

function OpenWord

  dim iName
  dim oDoc
  dim oResult

  ' GetObject (below) will raise an error if Word is not running,
  ' so suppress normal error handling.
  on error resume next

  ' Initialize oResult so we have a value to compare later.
  set oResult = nothing

  ' Attempt to reference a running Word instance.
  set oResult = GetObject(, "Word.Application")

  if Err.Number <> 0 then
    call Err.Clear
  end if

  if oResult is nothing then
    ' Create an instance of the Word application.
    set oResult = CreateObject("Word.Application")
  end if

  set OpenWord = oResult

end function

I hope this helps you.

Regards,
Advansys Support