Visionary User's Guide

Visionary User's Guide
Chapter 1: Getting Started with Visionary

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Visionary Viewer

After you have developed and published a world using Visionary Studio, the Visionary Viewer ActiveX control enables users to view and navigate through the published world. You can use the Visionary Viewer control in any application that supports ActiveX controls, such as Microsoft Access, PowerPoint, or Excel. You can build your own container application to display the Visionary Viewer control using C++, Java, or tools such as Visual Basic or PowerBuilder. You can also use the Visionary Viewer control on a Web page to view a world in any Web browser with ActiveX support.

Figure 1-12 shows Visionary Viewer in a sample container application.

Figure 1-12
Visionary Viewer in a Container Application

Visionary Viewer provides the following navigation aids in addition to a toolbar and event actions:

Scene tabs that list all the scenes in the displayed world
A Jump To dialog box that lists scenes and their viewpoints
A drop-down menu that displays the wormholes that the user has passed through
A Runtime Settings dialog box that enables users to change global parameters

For more information about Visionary Viewer, see Chapter 14, "Viewing a Published World."

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