Copyright: Copyright © 2002 by Eric J. LeVin II. All rights reserved.
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Welcome
Introducing Visual Autorun.

Digitope Visual Autorun puts the tools necessary to create Autorun interfaces at your finger tips. Whether you want to create a single CD or a thousand, you'll find that Visual Autorun allows you to design an Autorun layout quickly and easily.

Choose from a collection of menu designs.

Visual Autorun now provides 11 different menu layouts, so you'll always have the one you need.

Create an Autorun quickly with Visual Autorun's award-winning interface.

Using a simple, step-by-step approach, you'll quickly create the perfect design, with no programming skills necessary.

Advanced options are always a click away.

From support for manual file paths to custom editing of the Autorun.inf file, advanced options are a click away for those who need them.

Technical support that's quick and responsive.

If you have questions that are not answered here, Digitope technical support is ready to help. Just visit www.digitope.com/support for more information.


Creating a Basic Autorun
Creating a Basic Autorun.

You'll find it easy to use Visual Autorun to create an Autorun. Here's a guide to creating a basic Autorun for a CD. Here we're creating a CD with reports from International Coffeebean, an coffee conglomerate.

Step 1: Gather the files.

The first step in creating a Autorun is to gather the files you want to be on your CD. We've put the reports in a folder called, appropriately, "My CD Files"

Step 2: Start Visual Autorun and select the CD folder.

Now, we have to start Visual Autorun. We click select "I have a folder with my CD files" and then type the path or click Browse to select the folder. Click Next.

Step 3: Entering CD options.

We now enter options for the CD. We can select an icon for the CD, if we want. The icon file needs to be a special .ico file, and can't be a regular picture. For more information on icon files, see Image Limitations. The icon file doesn't have to be in the CD files folder.

We also select that we want to create a menu interface.

Step 4: Designing the Menu.

After we enter the CD options and click Next, we're presented with the menu design dialog. The menu title and icon have been carried over. We'll leave the menu title the same, but we want to change the menu icon to our logo picture. We click browse and select a picture. The picture can be a .bmp, .jpg, .ico or .gif. Like the icon, it doesn't have to be in the same folder as the CD files.

Now,  we select the buttons we want to appear.  We click the "..." button to select a file from the CD folder. The caption automatically becomes the filename. We can change that if we want.

If we needed to have more than five buttons, we would have to use more pages. That's covered in Creating Multi-Page Menus

We also select what skin we want

Step 5: Finishing

Now we click Next to display a review of our Autorun. We don't need to make changes or edit the Autorun.inf file, so we click Next to build it. We click finish to close.

All we have to do now is burn the files on the CD. To do that, please see Burning the CD.

When the CD is put in the drive, our menu will appear!


Creating Multi-Page Menus
Creating Multi-Page Menus.

If you need a to link to a lot a files, Visual Autorun supports multiple page menus. It's quite easy to add additional pages.

Adding and Removing pages

Click Add to add an page to the menu. To remove a page, select the page and click Remove.

Linking to a page

It's necessary to link to the page or it won't be visible. To link to a page, click the Action drop-down and select "Page" then select the page in the "File / Page" drop-down. See the example below.


Burning the CD
Burning the CD.

After the Autorun is created, then you can burn your files on to a CD. Here's how to do it:

If you're specifiying paths manually...

Please see Working with Manual Paths.

Using Popular CD Burning Software

Windows XP

Easy CD Creator

Using different software

Open the CD Files folder in Windows Explorer.

Click Edit - Select All.

Start your CD burning software and paste the files into the layout.

Follow the software manufacturer's instructions for burning the CD.


Creating the CD with Windows XP
Creating the CD with Windows XP.

This explains how to burn your CD files using Windows XP's built-in CD burning.

Step 1: Check "Add files to Windows XP CD burning"

After you have created your Autorun and Visual Autorun is ready to build, check the "Add files to Windows XP CD burning" to automatically add the files.

Step 2: Start the burner

A balloon will appear saying you have files to write to CD. Click it.

A folder will open with your CD files. Click File - Write these files to CD

Step 3: Burn CD

Follow the instructions on your screen to complete the burning process.


Creating the CD with Easy CD Creator

This explains how to burn your files onto a CD with Easy CD Creator.

Step 1: Start Easy CD Creator

Step 2: Drag and Drop your CD files into the layout

Open your CD files folder in Windows Explorer. Click Edit - Select All and then Edit - Copy. Switch to Easy CD Creator and click Paste to copy them into your CD layout.

Step 3: Adjust any Easy CD Creator options

If you want or need to adjust any Easy CD Creator options, do that now.

Step 4: Start Recording

Click the Record or click File - Record CD.

Follow the instructions on your screen.


Image Limitations

There are certain image & icon limitations when using different features of Visual Autorun.

CD Icon

Supported file types:

·	Windows Icon (.ico)

·	Application (.exe)

Menu Icon & Splash Screen

0	Supported file types:

·	JPEG Image (.jpg or .jpeg)

·	Windows Bitmap (.bmp)

·	GIF Image (.gif)

·	Windows Metafile (.wmf)

·	Windows Icon (.ico)

Application icons (.exe) are not supported.

Using an Application icon (.exe)

A .exe file can contain more than one file. Therefore, when using this type, it's necessary to specify which icon is desired. The icon count starts at 0.

To specify the first icon, which is the icon displayed for the application, specify:

c:\my app.exe,0

To specify the second icon, if any:

c:\my app.exe,1

And so on.


End-User License Agreement (EULA)
End-User License Agreement

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Contacting Technical Support
It's easy to contact Digitope Technical Support. Choose an option:

Internet

Simply go to http://www.digitope.com/support

Email

Email support@digitope.com. Be sure to provide your email address plus a description of the problem.

Mail

You may contact Digitope at:

Eric LeVin II

Digitope

Turks and Caicos Islands


Working with Manual Paths

If you don't want to use the CD Folder option, or have other advanced needs, Visual Autorun allows you to specify manually the paths for files manually.

This option is more harder to use than the CD Folder option.

Using Manual Paths

To use Manual Paths for your Autorun, choose the "I want to specify paths manually" option.

How Manual Paths work

It's necessary to specify the paths exactly when using this option. All manual paths relate to the files as they will be on the CD.

Example:

If your CD has a file on the base folder, named "Document.doc", it's manual path would be "\document.doc". If it was in the My Documents folder on the CD, it would be "\My Documents\Document.doc"

Adding the Autorun information to your CD.

After you've created the Autorun, Visual Autorun will prompt you to choose the Output Folder to save it in. If you're using a recordable media such as CD-RW, you can simply choose that drive as the Output Folder. Otherwise, you'll need to choose a location, such as your desktop, to save in.

Now,  a file called "autorun.inf" will appear in your Output Folder. In addition, depending on the autorun options chosen, a folder called "Autorun" may also be present.

If the output folder is the CD itself, you're finished! Otherwise, copy the "autorun.inf" and "Autorun" folder, if present, from the Output Folder to the base folder on the CD.


CD Folder option

This option allows you to easily add an Autorun to your CD files. After you choose the folder with your CD files, Visual Autorun allows you to easily select from them making it easier than ever to create an Autorun.


Manual Paths option

Choose this option if you need to specify paths manually or don't have your CD files in one folder. This option is harder to use than the CD Folder option.


Load Autorun Information

Choose this option to load Autorun information from a existing CD. This option will load the existing options.


Browse button

Click here to browse for a folder.


CD Title

Enter the name of your CD here. This will be displayed in Windows Explorer when the CD is inserted.


CD Icon

Enter the filename to the icon you want to be displayed in Windows Explorer. Please view Image Limitations for information.


Browse button

Click here to browse for a file


Display Menu Interface

Choose this option to create a menu interface for your CD that allows users to select different files to start.


Just start a file

This option will just start a single file when the CD is inserted, with or without a picture splash screen.


Drop-Down Menu

This option allows you to add a Drop-Down menu to your CD and is unnecessary in most cases.


Menu Title

This is what will be displayed on the menu and titlebar.


Menu Picture (optional)

This is the picture that will be displayed on the menu.


Menu Skin

Choose the design of the menu from the drop-down. A small preview is then show. You may click the picture for a larger preview.


Add / Remove menu pages

Click these buttons to add or remove pages from the menu.


Menu Pages

This is the list of pages in the menu. Click a page to display it.


Button Caption

This is the name that will be displayed on the button.


Button Action

Choose here to select from a file button to a page button.


Button Filename

Select what file should be started. To choose a menu page instead, click the Button Action drop-down to the left and select "Page".


Button Page

Select the page you want to button to link to. To start a file instead, choose "File" from the Button Action drop-down.


Invalid Filename

This file does not seem to be a valid filename. You may use it anyway, but it might not work.


Output Folder

This the where the Autorun information will be saved. Copy the "autorun.inf" and "Autorun" folder, if present, from here to your CD.


Filename

This is the file that will be started when the CD is inserted.


Display Splash Screen

Click here if you want to display a picture before the file starts.


Picture Filename

This is the Splash-Screen picture filename.


Seconds to display

Choose the number of seconds to display the splash screen.


Drop Filename

This is the filename of the selected drop-menu item.


Drop-Menu List

This is the list of drop-menu items.


Can't find Autorun.inf

Visual Autorun can't load the existing Autorun information because the Autorun.inf file is not in the folder you selected. Select another folder.