Creating CD output for Flare Project

[Joywriter]

For some training use, the question arises as to whether online help can be created in a CD format ... supposedly for offline listening/learning. Since Online Help is designed as a string of topics, I don't see the purpose of this exercise but I thought I would explore if this option is available?

[RamonS]

That option is available. You first need to create a text file called autorun.inf, which will be automatically executed after the CD was inserted and the CD catalog was read in (assuming autoplay is enabled). The contents of the autorun.inf file should be this:

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[autorun]
shellexecute=default.htm

On newer Windows systems (I assume XP, 2003 and Vista) this will fire up the default browser displaying the specified file.

If you need to support older Windows versions or want to make sure that it will really work you can use a third party program called ShellRun. For more information see here:
http://www.phdcc.com/shellrun/freeware.htm

In any case, create a test CD and try it out on a few systems before distributing.

[Joywriter]

Thanks so much!