[Javascript] Detecting ActiveX control

[Mike Dougherty]

On Wed, 03 Jan 2007 13:13:46 +0000
  Matt Barton <javascript at mattbarton.org> wrote:
> I have a custom ActiveX control which is running in my intranet app (target browser is only Win 
>IE5.5+).
> 
> Is there any way for me to detect, in javascript, if the control is accessible by the browser?
> 
> I find my users often have IE security settings which prevent the control from running, and this 
>causes a javascript runtime error: "Object doesn't support this property or method".

try {
   var myobj = (your object);
   }
catch(e){
   //appropriate error response
   }