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AutoPage has now been archived, and as such no more updates will occur. Please click here for more information. An attractive ANIMATED CD Autorun program which displays bitmaps associated with commands. The screen consists of your image (one of), an exit button, navigation buttons and the command button. The program fully sizes and sets itself up to suit the size of image loaded. This means you can use small images (like we have) or large, or long, or tall or... its up to you. When the user clicks the "Next", or "Previous" Arrows the program animates a slide from one image to the next. This IDEALLY suits a number of applications! The slide direction depends on the arrow pushed, and speed is fully settable to create smooth slow slides or fast slides. You can have as many or as few sections as you like! Each "Page" has a command (the page shown in the screenshot below is set to open the Help File) which can be set to do any number of different things:
The main screen as downloaded (please remember that the program sizes itself around your images), looks like:
The Autorun program also has the ability to load up a full screen background, displaying a Windows Metafile which you supply. All you have to do is create your metafile and include the file with the program, it will then be loaded up to cover the screen behind the program dialog. The program senses the existence of its own INI file, and if not present the program prompts the user for the information. When entered the program saves the INI file to its directory, ready for operation. Simply write the AutoPage directory and the provided Autorun.inf to CDs to have them Autorun the AutoPage Menu. If the program is started with a "/R" commandline (a batch file is provided for this) then the program opens up any exiting INI file in the program's INI programmer interface. The INI programmer interface screen is as follows:
Very professional effects can be created with the software in a number of ways. 1. Use Associated Images In its most basic form you can quickly create an image set using images directly associated with the commands available. E.g. A screenshot of the program, the logo for the program, A generic indicator such as a pair of glasses for "Install Viewer", etc. etc. etc. 2. Use a Common Base Many people have a large collection of tiles which they use for Web-page design, Windows backgrounds etc. Any of these can easily be used as the base for the images. As the tiles are designed to mesh at the edges, this has the effect of creating a smoother transition from one image to the next. Another example might be to use a horizontal tile of wood grain. Then as the button was pushed the screen would appear as if it was moving along a plank. Another idea is to have graphics on a common color background such as black. Then the icons or graphics appear as if they are floating above the background. 3. Create a Vista View A Great concept is to create one long graphic as a panoramic view. On mine you might notice I just took one long slice of an image, chopped it into blocks and pasted images over the top (in this case text). If the end of the last image can be meshed with the beginning of the first a vista (i.e. a virtual 360º view) is formed. Then cut the image up into equally sized sections. One example of this would be to create a city street, lined with buildings and shops. Then evenly spaced create a shop on the topic, say a games shop to play a computer game, or travel agency to go to your web site. Then the User can work his/her way along the street, clicking on the button/s which interest them. I am sure there are many other variations on the theme, it all depends on your CD!
PLEASE NOTE: the program is a 32-bit application, and as such will not run on any systems previous to Windows 95.
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