how can i make autorun CD

[sajankk]

hi all,

It is a general question.. not VB based

I made my office document in a single pdf file. Now i can access all my document through single pdf file. I want to present the same to my boss in CD. Immediately after inserting the CD it has to run. i made autorun.inf file and in that i mentioned

[autorun]
open=filename.pdf

and both .inf and .pdf files stored in the root directory of the CD. But its giving an error that " D:\ is not a valid win32 Application"

Is it possible to make autorun CD anyway to automatically open this .pdf file

Thanks in advance and sorry for posting here in the VB forum

saj

[si_the_geek]

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[sajankk]

Thread moved to General Developer forum - we have multiple forums here, please do not pick one that you know is wrong

sorry si....

actually i have to get the reply little early...

can u pleases tell how to go about

[Edgemeal]

"filename.pdf" isn't an executable and thats what it expects.

I would try creating an executable that uses ShellExecute, using that API you can tell it to "open" a "filename.pdf" and it will launch the program that is associated with .PDF files and open the file for you with one line of code.

In VB6 the code is like,
ShellExecute Me.Hwnd, "open","filename.pdf", vbNullString, vbNullString, SW_SHOW)

see ShellExecute Function for more

[gnznroses]

for somethign more elaborate, there are autorun creation programs, like autoplay media studio.

[sajankk]

"filename.pdf" isn't an executable and thats what it expects.

I would try creating an executable that uses ShellExecute, using that API you can tell it to "open" a "filename.pdf" and it will launch the program that is associated with .PDF files and open the file for you with one line of code.

In VB6 the code is like,
ShellExecute Me.Hwnd, "open","filename.pdf", vbNullString, vbNullString, SW_SHOW)

see ShellExecute Function for more

thanku... i made an autorun.inf file and in the file i wrote,
[autorun]
open=autor.exe 'made in vb with shellExecute
icon = autor.exe

i burn the CD with inf, .exe and .pdf in the root directory. its working when i insert the CD second time. first time just i can see acrobat coming and going. i changed SW_SHOWNORMAL still the same problem. please advise me

saj

[Edgemeal]

Been awhile since I did any of this but I do have an autorun on one of my flash drives, I chagned the VB code to open a PDF file and seems to work just fine on the first try. My INF file is a bit different...

' INF File

[autorun]
ShellExecute=Autorun.exe
Icon=Autorun.exe,0
UseAutoPlay=1

' VB6 code (Autorun.exe)

Private Sub Form_Load() 
    Dim x As Long
    x = ShellExecute(Me.hwnd, "open", "r09143v-1.pdf", vbNullString, vbNullString, 1)
    Unload Me
End Sub

[mendhak]

Use a batch file instead. You can say

@start r091blahblah.pdf

In the .bat file. The user doesn't need the VB6 runtimes to run it then. It'll work on Windows machines only though, not sure how you'd do this on a Linux OS.

[tadha123]

I want to pass .net version as parameter in .inf file and check whether the framework is installed on the machine.

ex.
[autorun]
OPEN=autorun.exe v2.0.50727

it should check availability of .Net 2.0.
Can I do it using shellExecute? If not.. Any suggestion???