ActiveX Controls have been deprecated by Microsoft in the latest versions of the Windows operating system in favor of the
DotNet framework and its controls.
While MAXScript still supports ActiveX controls, these have to be installed and registered on the system to be accessible to MAXScript.
As a replacement of ActiveX controls, MAXScript supports DotNet controls in 3ds Max 9 and higher.
The following example might not work unless the used ActiveX control is installed on your system.
Here is a sample script that creates a text object and sets the text to FSCommand event argument value sent by Shockwave Flash objects: