I have to produce a CD or DVD with a lot of images on and the client wants a simple front end HTML index page with links to all the images on the disc. Obviously I can create this if FWP but how do you get the Index or Home page to open automatically on insertion of the disc into a PC or Mac?
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I have just gone through this for a client. There’s nothing you can do
to consistently auto-start a CD on a Mac. But you can make a nice
“home page” out of the CD in icon view, hiding everything except the
start page and making that appear to be a big “click here, dummy”
button. There are a couple of different applications you can use for
this (Toast, notably). I ended up using Apple’s developer
documentation and the Terminal.
On the PC, look up Autorun.inf on the Google. It’s pretty simple to
get going, it’s a plain text file from your perspective, with these
two lines in it:
[autorun]
shellexecute=index.html
Walter
On Apr 20, 2009, at 5:32 AM, Kryten wrote:
I have to produce a CD or DVD with a lot of images on and the client
wants a simple front end HTML index page with links to all the
images on the disc. Obviously I can create this if FWP but how do
you get the Index or Home page to open automatically on insertion of
the disc into a PC or Mac?
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Thanks Walt. Where in FWP do I insert your bit of code then?
[autorun]
shellexecute=index.html
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You don’t put it in Freeway. Make a plain text file and name it Autorun.inf, put those two lines of text in it, make sure you save it with Windows line-endings, and put it at the root level of the disk.
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Sorry Walt - wot are Windows line-endings in this case?
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If you use a programmer’s text editor, then you are able to change the
control character that is saved in the text file to indicate that a
line has ended and the next character should be shown on a new line.
Windows use rn (return + newline). Unix uses n (newline). Classic
Mac uses r (return). A proper text editor (TextWrangler, TextMate,
BBEdit, any of quite a lot of others) will let you change this. In
Freeway, you set it for your generated HTML by using the Document
Setup dialog in the Output pane. All text files have line-endings,
most text viewing application simply figure out what’s being used and
map it to the local standard so you never have to worry about this.
Walter
On Apr 20, 2009, at 9:42 AM, Kryten wrote:
Sorry Walt - wot are Windows line-endings in this case?
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Thanks Walter. Let’s see if I can get it to work now.
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