CD menu program Please.

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Leo R.

Hello All,
Can anyone point me to a CD Menu program which will allow me to have
sub-menus and which does not try to phone home.
CD Auto 3.0 looks good except it phones out.
TIA
Leo R
 
Hello All,
Can anyone point me to a CD Menu program which will allow me to have
sub-menus and which does not try to phone home.
CD Auto 3.0 looks good except it phones out.
TIA
Leo R
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Net-Burner's AMenu version 1.1
© 2002 Desernet Broadband Media, Inc. (DBMI)
All Rights Reserved

AMenu will pop up a menu that directs the user to choose from several
options on a CD.
You can use AMenu to launch programs, setup files, web sites, text
files, MP3 files,
Winamp m3u playlists, and more.

www.net-burner.com

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do a google for the next two
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CDStart
Version 1.08
Release 18.6.2003

Make Your own CD autorun application! Easy to configure.

CDStarter version 2.2.0!
-----------------------------------
CD autorun program
CDStarter is freeware.


-Art-
 
-Art- said:
Net-Burner's AMenu version 1.1
© 2002 Desernet Broadband Media, Inc. (DBMI)
All Rights Reserved

www.net-burner.com
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A more direct link is:

http://www.net-burner.com/Products/AutoMenu.cfm
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do a google for the next two
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CDStart
Version 1.08
Release 18.6.2003
http://pvland.cz/freeware/freeware.htm

Make Your own CD autorun application! Easy to configure.

CDStarter version 2.2.0!
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http://www.wentnet.com/software/cdstarter.php3
 
Hi Art and John,
Have just finished DL those and will check them out.
Thanks very much for the help.
Leo
 
Hi Art and John,
Have just finished DL those and will check them out.
Thanks very much for the help.
Leo


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http://www.wentnet.com/software/cdstarter.php3
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Ah, so this thread was asking a question re an autorun program.
Sorry, I wasn't sure.

There's a really, really good one that makes wonderful effects. It
follows a nice naming rule, mainly that the title tells what it is,
exactly:

CD Autorun v1.02
http://www.timeless.co.zw/soft_cdarfree.cfm

---------

Check out the great examples. A wide diversity of styles from
beautiful and complex structure to completely simple:
http://www.timeless.co.zw/soft_cdareg.cfm

Online tutorial:
http://www.timeless.co.zw/soft_cdartut.cfm

FAQ page:
http://www.timeless.co.zw/soft_cdarfaq.cfm

And lastly, though I've never used it, check out this online tool to
help you build autoruns (re the script, etc.):
http://www.timeless.co.zw/soft_cdar_areatool.cfm

Good luck!

***************************************
Autorun's index page:
http://www.timeless.co.zw/soft_cdar_areatool.cfm
 
fitwell said:
[snip]

[snip]

Ah, so this thread was asking a question re an autorun program.
Sorry, I wasn't sure.
There's a really, really good one that makes wonderful effects. It
follows a nice naming rule, mainly that the title tells what it is,
exactly:

CD Autorun v1.02
http://www.timeless.co.zw/soft_cdarfree.cfm

---------

Check out the great examples. A wide diversity of styles from
beautiful and complex structure to completely simple:
http://www.timeless.co.zw/soft_cdareg.cfm

Online tutorial:
http://www.timeless.co.zw/soft_cdartut.cfm

FAQ page:
http://www.timeless.co.zw/soft_cdarfaq.cfm

And lastly, though I've never used it, check out this online tool to
help you build autoruns (re the script, etc.):
http://www.timeless.co.zw/soft_cdar_areatool.cfm
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I prefer this one:

http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptautorun.asp
Good luck!

***************************************
Autorun's index page:
http://www.timeless.co.zw/soft_cdar_areatool.cfm
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Fitwell,
Not sure why you snipped out all the links I went to the trouble of
locating. And as for the program you recommend, note the following:

"You can only launch program files in the freeware edition. The
professional edition of CD AutoRun allows you to launch URLs (web
sites, mailto links) and documents (good for launching readme.txt
files) using the user's associated program for each document type.
This feature is very handy for linking to your web site or for
starting a blank e-mail addressed to yourself. The professional
edition is currently being sold for ONLY USD$25"

On the other hand, this one:

http://www.wentnet.com/software/cdstarter.php3

allows the following:

"CDStarter - a freeware program to put on your CDs that will present
the user with a list of buttons to run software or open files on your
CD. You can define your own lists and each button can have its own
icon. CDStarter has support for different languages and operating
systems."

To run the program, either use the program I mentioned above or simply
make a file using notepad that says the following:

[Autorun]
open=(whatever the program's name is here)

then save the file as "autorun.inf". Including that file in the root
folder of your CD will start the program when the CD is put in the
drive (assuming autorun hasn't been disabled in the OS by the user.)
 
fitwell wrote:
[snip]

Not sure why you snipped out all the links I went to the trouble of
locating. And as for the program you recommend, note the following:
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Nothing meant by that, John. Didn't realize you thought there might
be something in that. Just wanted to cut down the message, it's been
getting big, but I left the the filename references. There was, after
all, the entire info in your post.
"You can only launch program files in the freeware edition. The
professional edition of CD AutoRun allows you to launch URLs (web
sites, mailto links) and documents (good for launching readme.txt
files) using the user's associated program for each document type.
This feature is very handy for linking to your web site or for
starting a blank e-mail addressed to yourself. The professional
edition is currently being sold for ONLY USD$25"
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Very true. But we all here post our preferences and they are just
that, preferences. I'm sure that the poster will decide which one is
best. I actually no longer use CD AutoRun, I found something much
better but can't mention it here. But I'm extremely fond of it. I
created many beautiful and, for me, full featured enough autoruns with
it. I never needed URLs, etc., so found no major problems with it.
Only difficulty I ever had was not being able to use WordPad, but the
author put that type of thing in on purpose as an incentive to buy the
Pro version. It's a pretty standard type of thing to do, after all.
More feature in a Pro.
On the other hand, this one:

http://www.wentnet.com/software/cdstarter.php3

allows the following:

"CDStarter - a freeware program to put on your CDs that will present
the user with a list of buttons to run software or open files on your
CD. You can define your own lists and each button can have its own
icon. CDStarter has support for different languages and operating
systems."
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Sounds good, John! Will check it out, too. I have a great program
now, but always like to see what else is out there re autoruns, esp.
if it's freeware.

Thanks for the info! :oD
 
fitwell said:
Nothing meant by that, John. Didn't realize you thought there might
be something in that. Just wanted to cut down the message, it's been
getting big, but I left the the filename references. There was, after
all, the entire info in your post.
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No offense taken. Was just curious. I knew you didn't do it out of
malice. 80)>
Very true. But we all here post our preferences and they are just
that, preferences. I'm sure that the poster will decide which one is
best. I actually no longer use CD AutoRun, I found something much
better but can't mention it here. But I'm extremely fond of it. I
created many beautiful and, for me, full featured enough autoruns with
it. I never needed URLs, etc., so found no major problems with it.
Only difficulty I ever had was not being able to use WordPad, but the
author put that type of thing in on purpose as an incentive to buy the
Pro version. It's a pretty standard type of thing to do, after all.
More feature in a Pro.
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Wasn't complaining about you posting a preference, of course. Just
thought that the program was kinda limited. On the other hand, it does
make nicely decorative menus unlike my suggestion.

However, it doesn't appear to allow background images.
Sounds good, John! Will check it out, too. I have a great program
now, but always like to see what else is out there re autoruns, esp.
if it's freeware.

Thanks for the info! :oD
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You're welcome for the links. My thanks to Art for suggesting the
programs.
 
[snip]

No offense taken. Was just curious. I knew you didn't do it out of
malice. 80)>
:oD

Wasn't complaining about you posting a preference, of course. Just
thought that the program was kinda limited. On the other hand, it does
make nicely decorative menus unlike my suggestion.
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That's too bad, I'd like both in a freeware. Mind you, I didn't find
CD Autorun limiting for what I used it, which was mainly to make
"installation" CDs for my friends. They don't know how to install
apps, and I had a lot of freeware to share, so made them up something
they could use as if it were a regular software CD that they'd just
put in the CD-ROM drive and an installation menu would come up with
all the choices and gave them easy access to a help file which I usu.
make in text or rtf format and PDF format.

The other type of thing I made with it is I burned MP3s, i.e., one
time 112 songs, plus CoolPlayer to a CD and built a menu to help user
get easy access to playing the songs right away. That one was pretty
cool.

In both types of cases, a "decorative" menu was mandatory because of
the visual aids making it easier to use. The mouseovers were the only
thing I added that were strictly decorative. I put several "icons" at
the top of one where audio segments could be played. These were made
by converting a few MP3s to wav, cutting and fading at the end.

Really, really neat.

[snip]

Cheers! :oD
 
fitwell said:
fitwell wrote:

John Corliss wrote:

fitwell wrote:
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[snip]


No offense taken. Was just curious. I knew you didn't do it out of
malice. 80)>

:oD


Wasn't complaining about you posting a preference, of course. Just
thought that the program was kinda limited. On the other hand, it does
make nicely decorative menus unlike my suggestion.
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That's too bad, I'd like both in a freeware. Mind you, I didn't find
CD Autorun limiting for what I used it, which was mainly to make
"installation" CDs for my friends. They don't know how to install
apps, and I had a lot of freeware to share, so made them up something
they could use as if it were a regular software CD that they'd just
put in the CD-ROM drive and an installation menu would come up with
all the choices and gave them easy access to a help file which I usu.
make in text or rtf format and PDF format.

The other type of thing I made with it is I burned MP3s, i.e., one
time 112 songs, plus CoolPlayer to a CD and built a menu to help user
get easy access to playing the songs right away. That one was pretty
cool.

In both types of cases, a "decorative" menu was mandatory because of
the visual aids making it easier to use. The mouseovers were the only
thing I added that were strictly decorative. I put several "icons" at
the top of one where audio segments could be played. These were made
by converting a few MP3s to wav, cutting and fading at the end.

Really, really neat.



[snip]

Cheers! :oD
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Check out this one then:

http://www.members.cox.net/dos/txtvw01.htm#txt2exe

Kinda over comes that limitation regarding opening text files.
 
[snip]

Check out this one then:

http://www.members.cox.net/dos/txtvw01.htm#txt2exe

Kinda over comes that limitation regarding opening text files.
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Sorry, I'm a little confused. CD Autorun handles text files just
fine. The developer gives us the command for starting notepad. What
he does not to is give us the one for WordPad and using same format
doesn't work.

I even went to the trouble of trying to find WRITE to put on the CD
but turns out that that was not a solution, though can't remember why.
It's on the net somewhere. The developer did that on purpose. That
type of thing is available on the pro version.

I'm guessing that TEXT to EXE does not support RTF so I don't think
this is a possible solution.

I just did a search in various ways for RTF-to-EXE and DOC-to-EXE and
nothing that came up like the TXT2EXE one.

Most people may just choose to keep their help file in text format,
but it's nice when you can add screenshots on the same document.
 
fitwell said:
John Corliss wrote:

[snip]
Check out this one then:

http://www.members.cox.net/dos/txtvw01.htm#txt2exe

Kinda over comes that limitation regarding opening text files.
Click to expand...

Sorry, I'm a little confused. CD Autorun handles text files just
fine. The developer gives us the command for starting notepad.
Click to expand...

Ahh. I don't use the program, so I didn't know that.
What
he does not to is give us the one for WordPad and using same format
doesn't work.
I even went to the trouble of trying to find WRITE to put on the CD
but turns out that that was not a solution, though can't remember why.
It's on the net somewhere. The developer did that on purpose. That
type of thing is available on the pro version.
I'm guessing that TEXT to EXE does not support RTF so I don't think
this is a possible solution.
Click to expand...

Yeah, I think you're right here.
I just did a search in various ways for RTF-to-EXE and DOC-to-EXE and
nothing that came up like the TXT2EXE one.
Click to expand...

Bummer. But there's an idea for a utility though.
Most people may just choose to keep their help file in text format,
but it's nice when you can add screenshots on the same document.
Click to expand...

Agreed. In fact, it would be nice to be able to use a really for real
help file, but that's probably not possible either.
 
fitwell said:
[snip]
Check out this one then:

http://www.members.cox.net/dos/txtvw01.htm#txt2exe

Kinda over comes that limitation regarding opening text files.
Click to expand...

Sorry, I'm a little confused. CD Autorun handles text files just
fine. The developer gives us the command for starting notepad. What
he does not to is give us the one for WordPad and using same format
doesn't work.

I even went to the trouble of trying to find WRITE to put on the CD
but turns out that that was not a solution, though can't remember why.
It's on the net somewhere. The developer did that on purpose. That
type of thing is available on the pro version.

I'm guessing that TEXT to EXE does not support RTF so I don't think
this is a possible solution.

I just did a search in various ways for RTF-to-EXE and DOC-to-EXE and
nothing that came up like the TXT2EXE one.

Most people may just choose to keep their help file in text format,
but it's nice when you can add screenshots on the same document.
Click to expand...

I came across RichView :

http://palbou.free.fr/software.html

RichView displays an embedded RTF document (the document is stored in
the executable program file as a binary resource). RichView can display
footnotes which Windows' WordPad (for example) completely ignores
(RichView recognizes all RTF tokens recognized by WordPad).
RichView is not an editor: the final user can't change the displayed
text. Nonetheless he can copy some or all of it to the clipboard in
plain text format and he can print the current page or the whole
document. RichView uses encrypted resources to prevent thieves from
copying and modifying the RTF document too easily (the very simple
encryption algorithm is not intended to defeat intelligence agencies).

Version 2 (released November 2001) provides all necessary tools to embed
documents (you will no more need an external resource editor, as with
previous 1.x versions). It also synchronizes to some extent the
footnotes and main windows display.

The latest 3.0 version (released August 2003) adds MS Word like text /
footnotes synchronization and can display embedded pictures (it is an
OLE container). Full compatibility with Windows XP 1 is provided.

To install the program and its tools, just unzip the downloaded file
into an empty directory.

HTH
 
fitwell said:
[snip]
Check out this one then:

http://www.members.cox.net/dos/txtvw01.htm#txt2exe

Kinda over comes that limitation regarding opening text files.
Click to expand...

Sorry, I'm a little confused. CD Autorun handles text files just
fine. The developer gives us the command for starting notepad. What
he does not to is give us the one for WordPad and using same format
doesn't work.

I even went to the trouble of trying to find WRITE to put on the CD
but turns out that that was not a solution, though can't remember why.
It's on the net somewhere. The developer did that on purpose. That
type of thing is available on the pro version.

I'm guessing that TEXT to EXE does not support RTF so I don't think
this is a possible solution.

I just did a search in various ways for RTF-to-EXE and DOC-to-EXE and
nothing that came up like the TXT2EXE one.

Most people may just choose to keep their help file in text format,
but it's nice when you can add screenshots on the same document.
Click to expand...

I came across RichView :

http://palbou.free.fr/software.html

RichView displays an embedded RTF document (the document is stored in
the executable program file as a binary resource). RichView can display
footnotes which Windows' WordPad (for example) completely ignores
(RichView recognizes all RTF tokens recognized by WordPad).
RichView is not an editor: the final user can't change the displayed
text. Nonetheless he can copy some or all of it to the clipboard in
plain text format and he can print the current page or the whole
document. RichView uses encrypted resources to prevent thieves from
copying and modifying the RTF document too easily (the very simple
encryption algorithm is not intended to defeat intelligence agencies).

Version 2 (released November 2001) provides all necessary tools to embed
documents (you will no more need an external resource editor, as with
previous 1.x versions). It also synchronizes to some extent the
footnotes and main windows display.

The latest 3.0 version (released August 2003) adds MS Word like text /
footnotes synchronization and can display embedded pictures (it is an
OLE container). Full compatibility with Windows XP 1 is provided.

To install the program and its tools, just unzip the downloaded file
into an empty directory.
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Sietse, that sounds awesome. CD Autorun's developer-instituted
limitation might be overcome with this one re having access on a CD
menu to a help file _with_ screenshots in RTF format. Sounds that way
at any rate.

Thanks! :oD
 
fitwell said:
Sietse, that sounds awesome. CD Autorun's developer-instituted
limitation might be overcome with this one re having access on a CD
menu to a help file _with_ screenshots in RTF format. Sounds that way
at any rate.

Thanks! :oD
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You are welcome!
 
John said:
fitwell said:
John Corliss wrote:

[snip]
Check out this one then:

http://www.members.cox.net/dos/txtvw01.htm#txt2exe

Kinda over comes that limitation regarding opening text files.
Click to expand...

Sorry, I'm a little confused. CD Autorun handles text files just
fine. The developer gives us the command for starting notepad.
Click to expand...

Ahh. I don't use the program, so I didn't know that.
What
he does not to is give us the one for WordPad and using same format
doesn't work.
I even went to the trouble of trying to find WRITE to put on the CD
but turns out that that was not a solution, though can't remember
why. It's on the net somewhere. The developer did that on purpose.
That type of thing is available on the pro version.
I'm guessing that TEXT to EXE does not support RTF so I don't think
this is a possible solution.
Click to expand...

Yeah, I think you're right here.
I just did a search in various ways for RTF-to-EXE and DOC-to-EXE and
nothing that came up like the TXT2EXE one.
Click to expand...

Bummer. But there's an idea for a utility though.
Click to expand...


See RichView in the other post.

Agreed. In fact, it would be nice to be able to use a really for real
help file, but that's probably not possible either.
Click to expand...


I did not have a look at this prog (have no use for it), but IMO if it
lets the enduser push buttons to execute programs then you can also let
him use documents, like .hlp, .chm, .pdf, and .rtf files, with his
systems associated program.

For instance with help of the freeware scripting tool AutoIt:
Its script command 'Run' lets you run a program or a command interpreter
command.
So you can make use of e.g. the command interpreter command 'start
prog.hlp', which on any system should open prog.hlp with the associated
program.
It would be simple to write such an AutoIt script.
AutoIt comes with Aut2Exe with which you can compile that script into a
standalone executable.
This executable can then be run by the enduser without any of the
original AutoIt programs being installed.

It requires of course that you yourself have AutoIt installed and also a
program to create e.g. .hlp or .pdf or .chm files.
 
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