Auto launch web site from CD?

[antonioconte]

I have just finished a print brochure for a client and they now wish me to
produce the brochure but reformat into a kind of website which runs off a CD.
Thats easy but they want it to auto launch??? is this possible?

[Manuel Socarras]

Mac or PC?

antonioconte wrote:

> I have just finished a print brochure for a client and they now wish me to
> produce the brochure but reformat into a kind of website which runs off a CD.
> Thats easy but they want it to auto launch??? is this possible?
>

[antonioconte]

well, I'm a mac user but ultimately the end users will be PC, why?

[Manuel Socarras]

because the method is different:

PC
--
create a plain text file named AUTORUN.INF and put it in the CD root

[autorun]
open=program.exe

if you want to launch a non-executable file

[autorun]
shellexecute=index.htm

not sure now, but i think the last one doesn't work in Win 95/Win 98

Mac
---
OS9: i always do it with the recording soft (Toast)
OSX: AFAIK, Apple disabled this option

HTH,

manuel

antonioconte wrote:

> well, I'm a mac user but ultimately the end users will be PC, why?

[Vagari]

Shoot, I don't remember off the top of my head. But I found something to do
this a while ago. It wasn't 100% foolproof (since you can't control how
everyone has their machine setup) but basically you got an executable you put
on the CD and you could pass it anything, including html files and stuff. Just
passing index.htm in the autorun file won't work on most systems.

And I could be wrong but the solution I found could build a disk image that
worked for Mac or PC. Try doing a search around Google. I remember that's where
I found it originally. Good luck!

[Alexandro Colorado]

Any autorun can execute the html on a windows machine and windows will
automatically launch the browser.


On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 18:22:19 +0000 (UTC), Vagari
<webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote:

> Shoot, I don't remember off the top of my head. But I found something to
> do
> this a while ago. It wasn't 100% foolproof (since you can't control how
> everyone has their machine setup) but basically you got an executable
> you put
> on the CD and you could pass it anything, including html files and
> stuff. Just
> passing index.htm in the autorun file won't work on most systems.
>
> And I could be wrong but the solution I found could build a disk image
> that
> worked for Mac or PC. Try doing a search around Google. I remember
> that's where
> I found it originally. Good luck!
>

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