Installing ActiveX Control

> Installing ActiveX Control

To properly resolve issues with installing the Edraw Office Viewer ActiveX Control, follow the steps below given in order.

Install Edraw ActiveX Control in IE

Install ActiveX Control in Firefox, Chrome

The component can only work at the IE6/7/8/9/10. If you want to use it at the Mozila Firefox, you need to install the ActiveX control support in the FireFox.

Microsoft created ActiveX for the Internet Explorer browser to properly play various types of media. Although the tool was designed specifically for Internet Explorer, when using FireFox, you will sometimes come across a website instructing you to install ActiveX to view media properly. For that reason, Mozilla has created a plug-in that will allow ActiveX to be enabled in Firefox.

Instructions

To test the demo page on our site, please add the website at the IE trust Site List.

To work with the FireFox or chrome, you need to use the ff-ActiveX-host or IE Tab Plus or other add-ons.

For IE Tab, you can open the FireFox, click the "manage Addon", search the IE Tab 2. Install it. When you visit a page, you can click the "Use IE Tab to browser the page" option in the right click menu.

Right-click on the icon you use to launch Internet Explorer and select Run as Administrator. Choose to Allow this operation if prompted.

Now, go to your web site

Click "The site might require the following ActiveX control: Edraw Office Viewer Component from Edraw Limited, Click here to install." on the bar.

Click Install officeviewer.cab when the security warning comes up.

If you can not see the Internet Information Security Bar:

You may have turned off the Information Bar. It will need to be turned on to successfully install our ActiveX control.

1.Right-click on the icon you use to launch Internet Explorer and select Run as Administrator. Choose to Allow this operation if prompted.
2.Once in Internet Explorer browser, click Tools in the upper toolbar or click on the Tools icon and select Internet Options.
3.In Internet Explorer browser, click Tools in the upper toolbar or click on the Tools icon and select Internet Options.
4.Click the Security tab.
5.Click Custom Level.
6.Scroll down to the ActiveX Controls and Plug-ins section.
7.Change Download Signed ActiveX Controls to PROMPT.
8.Close Internet Explorer then re-open Internet Explorer.
9.Return to your web site.
You should see the Information Bar below the Internet Explorer Address Bar, with the message "The site might require the following ActiveX control 'officeviewer.cab'. Click here to install."
10.Click anywhere on the bar.
11.Click Install officeviewer.cab when the security warning comes up.

If you don't have administrator access rights:

Ask your system administrator to log into your computer as a user with Administrator user rights.

Have your administrator log into your project website and install the ActiveX control.
If you have done all of the above, have Windows Administrator access, and still cannot load the ActiveX Control, you will need to check the settings on your Internet Explorer. It may have been set up so that it does not allow downloads to your computer.

Add Your Project Web Site to IE Trusted Sites

1.In Internet Explorer browser, click Tools in the upper toolbar or click on the Tools icon and select Internet Options.
2.Click the Security tab and select the Trusted Sites zone.
3.Click the Sites button.
4.Under "Add this Web site to the zone:" type your project web site.
5.Click Add, then click OK.

Check your Security Settings in Internet Explorer

1.In Internet Explorer browser, click Tools in the upper toolbar or click on the Tools icon and select Internet Options.
2.Click the Security tab and select the Trusted sites zone.
3.Click the Custom Level button.
4.Under ActiveX control and plug-ins check the followings:

Allow Scriptlets set to Enable
Automatic Prompting for ActiveX controls set to Enable.
Binary and Script behaviors set to Enable
Download signed ActiveX controls set to Prompt
Download unsigned ActiveX controls set to Prompt
Initialize and script ActiveX controls not marked as safe set to Disable
Run ActiveX controls and plug-ins set to Enable
Script ActiveX controls marked safe for scripting set to Enable

Click OK
5.Click the Advanced tab in the security section and make sure that Do not save encrypted pages to disk is not checked.
6.Click OK.
7.Close the browser window launch IE and attempt to install ActiveX.

Manual Installation of ActiveX

If all else fails you can try our manual installation tool. You need regsvr32 the officeviewer.ocx file. Then put the EDOfficeViewerX.dll in the same file folder with the officeviewer.ocx file.

Step:

1. Create a text file then change the file extend name as .bat.

2. In the file, you can type: regsvr32 "c:\test\officeviewer.ocx"

3. Save and close the file.

4. Right click the bat file then Run it as administrator.