PPT7: Animation Player for ActiveX Available

ID: q143665

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows 95, version 7.0

IMPORTANT: This article contains information about editing the registry. Before you edit the registry, make sure you understand how to restore it if a problem occurs. For information about how to do this, view the "Restoring the Registry" Help topic in Regedit.exe or the "Restoring a Registry Key" Help topic in Regedt32.exe.

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.

\Software\Microsoft\Office\PowerPoint\7.0\Addins\Surge


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

WARNING: Using Registry Editor incorrectly can cause serious problems that may require you to reinstall your operating system. Microsoft cannot guarantee that problems resulting from the incorrect use of Registry Editor can be solved. Use Registry Editor at your own risk.

For information about how to edit the registry, view the "Changing Keys and Values" Help topic in Registry Editor (Regedit.exe) or the "Add and Delete Information in the Registry" and "Edit Registry Data" Help topics in Regedt32.exe. Note that you should back up the registry before you edit it. If you are running Windows NT, you should also update your Emergency Repair Disk (ERD).

TO OBTAIN THESE FILES

To obtain Axpub.exe

The following file is available for download from the Microsoft Download Center. Click the file name below to download the file:

Axpub.exe

For more information about how to download files from the Microsoft Download Center, please visit the Download Center at the following Web address

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.asp

and then click How to use the Microsoft Download Center.

To Obtain Axplayer.exe

The following file is available for download from the Microsoft Download Center. Click the file name below to download the file:

Axplayer.exe

For more information about how to download files from the Microsoft Download Center, please visit the Download Center at the following Web address

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.asp

and then click How to use the Microsoft Download Center.

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