Insert Viewer Control into Microsoft PowerPoint 2007

STK Viewer comes with an ActiveX control that can be loaded into a Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 presentation. Inserting this control into a Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 presentation is significantly different from the methods used in previous versions of Microsoft PowerPoint. The following steps are designed to assist you in accessing and inserting the STK Viewer control into a Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 presentation.

Before proceeding with the steps below, ensure that AGI's Viewer, version 10.0 product is installed on the computer that will be used for creating the Microsoft PowerPoint presentation.

  1. Click the round, "Microsoft Office" button in the upper-left corner of the PowerPoint window.
  2. Click the PowerPoint Options button.
  3. This will open up the options window to the Popular tab. Check the Show Developer Tab in the Ribbon checkbox.
  4. Click OK to return to PowerPoint.
  5. Click the Developer tab.
  6. Select the More Controls button (represented by the hammer & wrench icon), located in the Controls section. This will bring up a list of available controls.
  7. Select AGI Viewer Control 10 from the controls list and click OK.
  8. Once the Viewer control has been selected, click on the area of the PowerPoint presentation's slide where you would like the control to appear, and drag the mouse to create the bounding box for the control. When you're satisfied with the size of the control's bounding box, release the left mouse button on the slide to draw the control.
  9. Right-click on the new control and select Properties from the context menu.
  10. In the table that appears, locate DefaultPackageName and type the full path (including the file name and extension) to your Viewer file in the adjacent field. If the Viewer file (*.vdf) is in the same folder as the Microsoft PowerPoint presentation, you can simply put the file name in this field.
  11. Note: If you are only incorporating one VDF file, you can change the PptPreloadMode value to true. This will prevent the Viewer file from loading each time you get to that slide. However, when loading several different VDF files, the PptPreloadMode should remain set to false, otherwise Microsoft PowerPoint will continue to display the first VDF file loaded.
  12. Close the Properties table.
  13. Enable Slide Show mode and wait while Microsoft PowerPoint loads the Viewer scenario.
  14. Note: There is a direct correlation between the complexity of a Viewer file and the time it takes to load.
    Note: If you set the Preload Textures option to true, there should be no significant delay the second time the slide is visited.

STK Programming Interface 11.0.1