Google Earth in Labview with Pushpins (Active X Help)

[El_Cheapo]

Hello,

I am trying to do pretty much what has already been done here:

https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-11225#comment-25121

However, it seems as if the author is unavailable for support.  He lists an "Active X Control" to be downloaded in order to make his program work.  I have been unable to find any reference to this on NI's website or in google searches.  Does anyone have any advice on how to get this program working?

Furthermore, I'd like to understand how to reproduce this and more about Active X in LabView in general.  I have been unable to find a good tutorial on Active X within LabView.  If anyone has any good suggestions that would be great.  I do not understand how the author was able to produce a window that would contain the Google Earth plugin.  If I create an Active X container and try to insert an Active X object into that container, my choices are limited and I do not know how to expand those choices.  Is this error caused by the same lack of Active X Control, whatever that may be?

Thank you for any support.

[AustinManinTown]

The reason you didn't find any mention of the ActiveX/COM interface for Google Earth is that Google stopped supporting it about 2 years ago. I think they were pushing developers in the direction of using Javascript, as most of the development work is web based.

As for using ActiveX in LabVIEW programs, the best advice I can give is don't. ActiveX has been around since Windows 3.1 and it shows. It has a nasty habit of introducing unexpected problems, especially if the ActiveX code is badly written (of which there is plenty).

If you are interested in communicating between applications take a look at .NET. It is much more robust and a current technology. 

[El_Cheapo]

Interesting.

Looking around for .NET help seems to be even more difficult than Active X.  Can you point me to any tutorials or example programs because I can't track any down as of this post.

Thanks.