Miscellaneous Status Bits Support

ActiveX Control Containers must recognize and support the following OLEMISC_ status bits.

Status Bit Required? Comments
ACTIVATEWHENVISIBLE
Yes
IGNOREACTIVATEWHENVISIBLE
No
Needed for inactive and windowless control support. The IGNOREACTIVATEWHENVISIBLE bit is for containers hosting inactive and windowless controls. The IGNOREACTIVATEWHENVISIBLE bit is introduced as part of the ActiveX Controls 96 specification, see this documentation for more details.
INSIDEOUT
No
Not generally used with ActiveX Controls but rather with compound document embeddings. Note this is contrary to some SDK documentation that says this bit must be set for the ACTIVATEWHENVISIBLE bit to be set.
INVISIBLEATRUNTIME
Yes
Designates a control that should be visible at design time, but invisible at run time.
ALWAYSRUN
Yes
ACTSLIKEBUTTON
No
Support is normally mandatory although it is not necessary for document style containers.
ACTSLIKELABEL
No
Support is normally mandatory although it is not necessary for document style containers.
NOUIACTIVATE
Yes
ALIGNABLE
No
SIMPLEFRAME
No
See Simple Frame Site Containment
SETCLIENTSITEFIRST
No
Support for this bit is recommended but not mandatory.
IMEMODE
No

Containers