Autorunner version 3

(autorunner)

Autorunner 3 is published as freeware by Bitworx.

Http: 	www.dataphone.se/~bitworx

Smtp:	bitworx@dataphone.se

Author:	Joakim Lundberg

Address:	Bergaparksvagen 12

184 30 AKERBSERGA

SWEDEN

Description:

Autorunner is a generic Autorun program.

Use it as a custom menu on your CDs.

A frontend for creating the menu is included.

Autorunner has a nice customizable GUI.

Support for custom Sound and Graphics.

Full Install + Uninstall support.

Features

The Toolbar

The Basics

Popupmenu


Features

Autorunner creates a menu by using an inifile.

Any files that has an association in windows (such as .txt with notepad) or any executable can be started from Autorunner. Even URLs work (such as http:www.dataphone.se/~bitworx).

If Autorunner detects that the user has an old version of the file COMCTL32.DLL (used by autorunner) the update is Microsoft COMCTL automatically launched.

Autorunner uses relative paths, so it will work no matter what driveletter the user has chosen for the Cd drive.

Autorunner can be translated into any language using the inifile.

Almost all of the gui aspects of autorunner can be customized using inimaker that comes with autorunner.

Sound can be played in the background (one or in a loop).

A bitmap can be selected as a background.

The size of the windows can be controlled from the inifile.

You can use any icon to display items in the menu.

Support for splashscreens.


About
The Toolbar

Note. Some of the buttons may be hidden due to settings in the ini file.

Autorunner features a translation into any language, so the captions of the buttons may differ. The captions below are the set to the default values.

 Exit

Exit autorunner

 Explore

 Explore the current drive

 Contents

Print or save contents (descriptions only) in textformat.

 Media

Toggle Audio/background/scroll on/off

 Viewmode

Switch between listview and iconview.

 About

About Autorunner


The Basics

Autostart

Autorunner starts automatically (if the feature is not turned off).

Descriptions

When an item is selected (highlighted) the description will show up in the status bar. Some items may not have a description.

Execute

If you click the item once, a tooltip showing the file that will be executed.

If the selected item is a document a program must be associated with it.

Example: If the menu contains a word document, word must be installed to display it.

Executables can be run anyway and some documents have associations by default (such as textfiles are associated with notepad).

And more...

Comctl32

Inimaker uses COMCTL32 version 4.72 or later.

If an older version is present, the GUI may look weird.

It comes with various software (such as MSIE 4) but may not be present

on your system. Autorunner execute the COMCTL update from microsoft

if an older version is detected.You should run this update when autorunner

asks you if you whish to update.

To skip this check use the switch "/nocheck" to start Autorunner.

To manually install it - Right click on the CD in the windows explorer and

select "Update Comctl" (or run manually from \Autorun\40Comupd.exe).

The file can also be downloaded from:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/developer/downloads/files/40comupd.htm

The file does not replace newer version of this file, so it is safe to run it.

Relative Paths

Autorunner uses relative paths for all items you add. That means that they are referred to depending on their relative position in the filesystem.

Example.

If you have the following structure:

\Autorun

\Files\MyApp.Exe

If you add MyApp.Exe to inimaker the relative path will be set to ..\Files\MyApp.Exe.

Therefore Autorunner must be in a directory under the root.

You do not have to manage the relative path, but if anything goes wrong you should now about them.


The popupmenu
Popup Menu

Autoruner can me minimized/maximized or restored by righclicking anywhere (a popup menu will be displayed). The menu can be hidden by setting an option

in the inifile.

Items can be sorted by using the "sort" menu.

You can quit autoruner by selecting the "exit" option.