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AutoPlay Menu Builder 5.4 - User Guide and FAQ
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What Can AutoPlay Menu Builder Do for You?
With the help of AutoPlay Menu Builder, you can create an autoplay menu easily. You don't need to write single line of code, just click and drag your mouse to draw an interface for your menu, then set properties of every control to what you want.
AutoPlay Menu Builder will create autorun.exe, autorun.ico (optional), autorun.inf, and a file named autorum.apm which include all data needed by the autoplay menu automatically. If you have check the option "Create Stand-alone Executable Files", you will get autorun.exe file include menu data, that means you need only autorun.exe (and also autorun.ico & autorun.inf) to burn on cd. If you want to install fonts before running autoplay menu, a folder named FontData will be created also.
I have created a wonderful autorun menu, but the size of it is too large, how can I decrease the size?
Here are several ways to make your menu smaller.
- Move common objects on each page to the fist page and check "Always Shows the First Page" in "Project Options" dialog.
- Use PNG/GIF/JPG images instead of bitmaps.
- Use "Common Mouse Sounds" instead of "Mouse Sounds" if you want to set sounds to buttons, because in most cases, you needn't have different sounds for every button.
- You need not distribute background music file because it is stored in autorun.apm.
- Check "Create Compressed Data Files" in "Options" dialog, but it takes longer to load and save menus, and it should not be effective if there is much compressed data in menus, such as mp3 music, PNG/GIF/JPG images.
- If you create stand-alone executable file for your menu, you need not distribute autorun.apm, the content of menu data is merged into autorun.exe.
- Use an exe-packer with overlay-support such as UPX to compress autorun.exe.
Frequently Asked Questions - AutoPlay Menu Builder
- I have finished the registration of this program, but the nag screen keeps on showing at the beginning of the menus I have created, what shall I do?
For menus you have created with the trial version, please open your project, click menu "Edit->Project Options", goto "Splash Screen" page, disable it or change it to any of your favorite pictures. Menus created with the registered version don't have splash screen by default.
- When I run a program from my menu, it is running behind the menu, and I can't see the program, what shall I do?
Please check whether you have checked the "Top Most" property of the main window, it determines whether the menu stays on top or not.
- Sometimes there are memory allocation problems in Windows 95/98/ME, what's the matter?
Windows 95/98/ME have problem of releasing GDI resources, so if there are too many resources leaks, program can't allocate more. This is a serious bug of Windows 95/98/ME, it can not be fixed by the program. But here are some suggestions to avoid this error. 1) Don't use too many image controls. 2) Use shape controls to display images instead of image controls, because shape control uses much less GDI resources. Shape control can display images as wallpaper by configure the 'Fill Style' and 'Wall Paper' properties.
- How can I set different backgrounds for each page?
Add an image control to every page, and load different image files, or you can use shape controls to create gradient backgrounds.
- I have forgotten the password to edit my menu, is there any way possible I can access the menu and bypass the password?
The password is encrypted with an un-reversable algorithm, it is impossible to be restored, so please remember your password.
- Is there a way to create a hot spot button - no background, no image and no text, just a mouse click area?
Please set style of the button to "Hot Spot", or set to "No Border" and delete the caption text and image.
- How can I play multiple mp3 music files (playlist)?
You can create a .m3u playlist file with relative paths, and load the playlist with the default program or a program on cd.
- Is there a way to return to the autoplay menu from a html page, like send a link to html and return to the menu for next choice?
It's impossible. Normally, html files are not allowed to access local resources for security reasons, and autoplay menu is local program, so it can't be accessed by html files. But you can add a link to close the html page itself so that it returns to the autoplay menu.
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