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VashTheStampede
12-10-01, 11:25 PM
Just how easy/hard is it to make an autorun script? Want to offload some AVIs onto a CD and have an autorun script kick in when the CD is inserted into a drive and have a simple GUI to select which AVI to play.

~Vash~
bdf24
12-11-01, 05:35 AM
Check this link out. They should have what your looking for.

Here (http://www.pollensoftware.com/autorun)
Smizack
12-11-01, 09:07 AM
All you need is an Autorun.inf file like this:

[autorun]
open=setup.exe
icon=setup.ico

And an icon to show if you want.
bdf24
12-11-01, 04:03 PM
Originally posted by Smizack
All you need is an Autorun.inf file like this:

[autorun]
open=setup.exe
icon=setup.ico

And an icon to show if you want.

It sounds to me like he want's to create menus and such to choose different things on the disk. The autorun.inf alone will not work for that.
Smizack
12-11-01, 04:15 PM
Originally posted by bdf24


It sounds to me like he want's to create menus and such to choose different things on the disk. The autorun.inf alone will not work for that.

There is a script for that. I have a cd that does that. It runs a realplayer movie.

But, say the file you want to open is Program.ram it should go something like:

[autorun]
open=Program.ram
icon=setup.ico
And it should run the .Ram file.

But I'm not positive. I'll have to check when I get home.
Smizack
12-12-01, 08:54 AM
Ok, that .Inf file is ALL you need to autorun any type of prog from a cd.
Aol's cd has this in the .inf

[autorun]
open=setup.exe
icon=\data\setup.ico
confined
12-15-01, 06:26 PM
I have used AutoPlay Menue Studio 3.0 To make some nice looking autorun GUI's. You can download a free trial version of it here. (http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-14487-100-7507112.html?tag=st.dl.10001-103-1.lst-7-1.7507112)
bdf24
12-16-01, 06:32 PM
Originally posted by Smizack
Ok, that .Inf file is ALL you need to autorun any type of prog from a cd.
Aol's cd has this in the .inf

[autorun]
open=setup.exe
icon=\data\setup.ico


Yes that will run one program. But he wants to make a menue screen on the disk to chose from different AVI's on the disk. He would need to still use that script to autoplay the menue though. But most prog's made for that purpose will create the .inf file along with the menue. So you don't really have to worry about that.
Smizack
12-17-01, 11:24 AM
Originally posted by bdf24


Yes that will run one program. But he wants to make a menue screen on the disk to chose from different AVI's on the disk. He would need to still use that script to autoplay the menue though. But most prog's made for that purpose will create the .inf file along with the menue. So you don't really have to worry about that.

Ahh ok, so you'd just use the inf to run the prog.
Thanks.
;)