PPT7: Animation Player for ActiveX Available

SUMMARY

You can use the Microsoft PowerPoint Animation Player for ActiveX to view PowerPoint presentations complete with animation and sound effects in a 32-bit Web browser. This player has two parts: the Player (Axplayer.exe) and the Publisher (Axpub.exe).

If you install the Player, you will be able to view the animation in a PowerPoint presentation posted on the Web. If you install the Publisher, you can also create your own animated presentations for the Web using PowerPoint 95.

The files Axpub.exe and Axplayer.exe are now available from Microsoft. For information about obtaining these files, see the "To Obtain These Files" section of this article.

Description of Axplayer.exe

If you choose to download just the Animation Player, you get a self-extracting Setup program named Axplayer.exe. Double-click this file to install the following files to your \Program Files\Common Files\ActiveX Animation Player folder:

   Readme.txt       1KB
   Surge.exe    1,271KB
   Surgprox.dll    37KB
   Uninst.exe      56KB
				

If you have Netscape Navigator installed, the following file is installed to the Netscape plugins folder:

   Npsurge.dll     27KB
				

Description of Axpub.exe

Axpub.exe is a self-extracting file that runs a Setup program. When you double-click this file, all of the files included with Axplayer.exe are installed as well as these three files:

   Surge.ppa       96KB
   Surgeui.dll     60KB
   Template.htm     1KB
				

If you do not have PowerPoint 95 installed on your system, Axpub.exe will only install the player files.

Registry Entries

PowerPoint depends on registration entries to find the Animation Player files in order to provide you with the ability to convert PowerPoint slides to Web pages. The entries are just like what you find for other add-ins which is how PowerPoint knows to add this feature to the File menu.

You'll find a key in the registry under HKEY_CURRENT_USER that tells the location of the Surge.ppa file and the initial function within that file.

      Initfunction  DeNileMain
      Path          C:\Program Files\Common Files\ActiveX Animation
                         Player\surge.ppa
				

WARNING: If you use Registry Editor incorrectly, you may cause serious problems that may require you to reinstall your operating system. Microsoft cannot guarantee that you can solve problems that result from using Registry Editor incorrectly. Use Registry Editor at your own risk.

TO OBTAIN THESE FILES

To obtain Axpub.exe

The following file is available for download from the Microsoft Download Center:
For additional information about how to download Microsoft Support files, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: Microsoft scanned this file for viruses. Microsoft used the most current virus-detection software that was available on the date that the file was posted. The file is stored on security-enhanced servers that help to prevent any unauthorized changes to the file.

To Obtain Axplayer.exe

The following file is available for download from the Microsoft Download Center:
For additional information about how to download Microsoft Support files, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: Microsoft scanned this file for viruses. Microsoft used the most current virus-detection software that was available on the date that the file was posted. The file is stored on security-enhanced servers that help to prevent any unauthorized changes to the file.