AutoPlay v1.33

Welcome to AutoPlay, A shareware application to use with your autorun.inf enabled CD's. As an example have a look at the screen shop below which shows what the demo in this distribution looks like:

Features

• Configurable background bitmap, including complete 256, hi-color, true-color and full palette support.
• Start up and shut down sounds
• Will work on 95, 98, NT, 2000, XP and 2003 without any service pack or 3rd party DLL requirements.
• Supports "Hot look" buttons with hyperlink cursor.
• Flyby sounds for each button.
• Supports mailto, ftp and http URLs as well as standard absolute and relative file links.
• A Complete WYSIWYG editor to allow creation of a single executable which you can ship without the need for any external files.

The enclosed zip file contains the AutoPlay executables, sample files and documentation for the program.

Shareware Notice

AutoPlay is shareware and this trial version is a fully functional evaluation copy except for the message box which appears when you close your application. This means that you are free to evaluate AutoPlay for up to 30 days. After this period if you are still using AutoPlay and/or wish to distribute applications made with it, then you are legally obliged to register AutoPlay with the author. Registration will entitle you to comprehensive email support from the author, along with the registered AutoPlay application 

RegNet - The Registration Network

You have several options you can use to register through RegNet, including secure online registration. The cost to register AutoPlay via RegNet is $25.00

• You can register by phone by calling RegNet at the following numbers:

• You can contact RegNet directly through email at info@reg.net
• You can contact RegNet through snail mail at:

Reg.Net
675 Southpointe Ct Ste 250
Colorado Springs CO 80906

• You can also register through RegNet's easy-to-use online WWW based forms by clicking on the appropriate link below.

Click here to use a secure web page to register AutoPlay (if your browser supports it).

Click here to use a non-secure web page to register AutoPlay.

Snail Mail

You can register directly with the author via normal post. Note that I cannot directly accept credit cards. If you wish to use a credit card, then you must use the Regnet option above. The cost via snail mail is $20.00. Remember to include your email address in your letter so that I can quickly confirm receipt of your registration. To register directly with me, you can send a cheque (made payable to PJ Naughter), cash or international money order to:

Upon receiving the payment I will send you a registered copy of the program.

Updates

V1.0 (14 June 1999)

• Initial Release.

20 June 1999

• A compiled version of AutoPlay for the NT running on an Alpha CPU is now provided in the alpha directory in the AutoPlay zip file. Thanks to Rich Peters for producing and testing this (since I don't have a DEC Alpha lying around <g>).

 V1.1 (8 May 2000)

• Now supports combo boxes in addition to buttons.

V1.11 (11 September 2000)

• Fixed a problem where the device context was not being restored correctly in the method CTrackingButton::DrawItem.

10 February 2001

• Updated links in the sample autoplay application to point to my new web site and email address.

V1.2 (11 February 2001)

• Image to be loaded can now be a jpeg or gif in addition to the usual Windows bmp file. Please note that to release code which uses the GIF format, you will need to obtain a license from Unisys.
• If an ini file cannot be found, then the app aborts rather than displaying anything.
• The name of the ini file can now be overridden by the command line to AutoPlay. e.g. Autoplay.exe bla.ini
• Now fully supports a Exe, Directory and Verb commands. This allows complete control over the ShellExecute call to bring up your desired app. For more info check out the sample autoplay.ini file shipped with the code.
• Please note that the Alpha version in the distribution has not been updated.
• Updated sample app to demonstrate the Exe, Directory and Verb commands.

V1.30 (18 October 2002)

• Major update to AutoPlay to include an "AutoPlay Studio" application which allows for WYSIWYG design of AutoPlay applications.
• AutoPlay applications are now fully contained in one executable (Use the menu item File -> Make Exe). This makes it easier for you to distribute on your CD's.
• Fixed a bug with the loading of DropShadowDeltaY and HighlightDeltaY values for a button.
• AutoPlay is now built with Visual C++ v6.
• Unregistered versions of AutoPlay applications display a reminder message about registering when the application is closed.

V1.31 (20 December 2002)

• Buttons now support an additional attribute called "Close App When Clicked". Thanks to Pete McBraida for this suggestion.
• AutoPlay Studio now supports drag and drag of scripts from the shell.
• AutoPlay Studio now supports automated builds of the executable. This is achieved using two new command lines. "/make" will instruct it to build the resultant exe and an optional "/output:filename" which allows you to override the output executable path. e.g. using the command line: APStudio.exe /make "/output:c:\temp\PJ.exe" "c:\temp\Untitled.ini" will load up the script "c:\temp\untitled.ini" and build the exe to "c:\temp\pj.exe". Thanks to Pham Hai for this suggestion.
• Produced a better help message when Autoplay.exe is run and it cannot find the payload which is produced when you "Make Exe" in AutoPlay Studio.
• Fixed the file extension filter for icon attributes in AutoPlay Studio.
• "Make Exe" Dialog in AutoPlay studio now includes a "Make AUTORUN.INF" option.
• AutoPlay Studio now supports automated creation of autorun.inf files. This is achieved using a new "/makeinf" command line. e.g. using the command line APStudio.exe /makeinf "/output:c:\temp\pj.exe" "c:\temp\untitled.ini" will produce a "c:\temp\AUTORUN.INF" file to match the contents of the script. This streamlines the creation of builds quite a lot when you are integrating it into a build procedure!.
• "Make Exe" option in AutoPlay Studio now includes an Accelerator, namely Ctrl+M.

4 February 2003

• A Unicode version of AutoPlay is now available if you are a registered user. No new functionality has been added, but the Unicode version just makes production of internationalised AutoRun CDs more easier.

v1.32 (5 October 2003)

• AutoPlay now provides support for a "ShellExecute and Exit App" type button.