autorun???

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i would like to know where i could get info on how to put an autorun on cd-r that i am making,or if there is someone who can explain it.

thanks jadd
 
It's just a simple text file. Open one off any CD-ROMs you might have laying around in Notepad or another text editor. You can probably infer what you need from looking at one or two examples. There's a line that says

open=setup.exe

on the one I looked at, which appears to tell Windows to run the program setup.exe that's on the root of the CD-ROM's file hierarchy...
 
thanks

thanks alchuck,you seem to know want i am talking about,i did check a cdr with an autorun on it, and it did have that as en example,but how can i create my logo or picture for my autorun and the menu, if it is too hard to explain,maybe you know a site with the info.

i thank you very much
jadd

ps: sorry for my english and the mistakes.
 
The logo? You mean the icon that's displayed for the CD? You need something that will save icon files (icon extension), which is a binary file. Alternatively, you can find some generic one that you like on the web.

The menu? You mean what's displayed after autorun detects your CD, reads the autorun.inf, and launches whatever it says to launch in there? Well, you need to write it. You can use practically any language that you can compile into an executable. I suspect that there are some tools out there for more easily putting a simple CD-browsing splash screen and menu together, but I don't know anything about them or where you might find such things.

Good luck, amd post what you find out...
 
thanks

thank you alchuck ,to have shut some light on this subject,now i know what i have to look for.
i will pass on my finding for sure.

thank you again
jadd
 
I wrote a small executable that will allow you to launch any type of file using autorun (assuming the user has an appropriate viewer). I can send it to you if you'd like....there is something similar to it on the web that costs about $75, but cripes it's ridiculous to charge that much for about 20 lines of code.

Then I would recommend making your "menu", as you called it, an HTML document. Reason being that it requires no programming knowledge to create, and EVERYBODY has a web browser.

I think Eddie N was using my little program. It'll run on win95, win98, winME, NT4, and Win2000. It is 100% transparent to the user also.

Slackmaster 2000
 
thanks slackmaster2k

thanks slackmaster2k, i will have to be honest, i am not the most educated when it comes down to computer.
the raison i was asking about autorun,is i want it to launch my mp3 cd's albums( witch have about 10 albums each)and bring up the albums files,or icon from the albums so i could click on to open that album file.

do you think i should invest in a M.M.B.software?
or there is something out there that i can use for this purpuse?

thank you again slackmaster2k
p.s. sorry for phrase structure and mistakes.
 
Ok, why don't you try to explain exactly what it is that you want to do. Right now it's still kind of vague.

You mentioned "albums", and I'm assuming that an album is some sort of index file that you open with an MP3 jukebox? What software do you use to create and open the albums?

Also, what is M.M.B. software?

Finally, is this project just something you're doing for yourself?

Slackmaster 2000
 
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