html based autorun cd page

[cmountford]

I have macromedia dreamweaver mx, and the tools to create the autoplay part the page, but don't know how to do certain aspects of creating the page

There's bound to be some easy way to do this.

What I'm trying to do is make the access page's links be able to be altered to match a hyperlink to whatever letter the drive that the CD is on.

Obviously, if you design a page assuming that everyone's CD drive is D, for people who have other drive letters, like, say F, it won't work. I'm trying, through either a form or through a code that will automatically look up whatever the letter the CD is in and adapt the hyperlinks accordingly

Obviously, it should be fairly simple to have a readme come up after installing whichever parts the person chooses, but of course, the hyperlink depends on the drive letter.

Also on the page would be links to the various installation files (which the user would install one-by-one (for simplicity of programming), just by clicking on what they want)...like say, depending on what they have installed, they can install just the components they do not already have installed to view the content on the CD (a pretty hardcore-enhanced power point, plus some other power points quite a bit simpler in nature)...the hardcore one has 3-D transitions, and I have everything set up so that no matter what computer setup the person has, it can work for them (like I have AVI files as individual slides instead of having the 3-D transition program do it, in the event that their computer doesn't support hardware acceleration or they don't have administrator rights.)

I've got everything planned out except how to get this html page that will have the links to the various setup files. Of course, to supplement the links to the setup files, I would have explanatory material regarding what the various programs do and who would need them based on their computer setup, etc.

If this isn't easily accomplished, I can live without having the html autorun page, but it would be pretty cool if I could

I need to have this project done by first thing Thursday morning (I can work through the night Wednesday, of course), but I've gotta give it to the teacher because all the teachers leave on Thursday for summer break (school computers have pretty much no capability for web design, and my ride to school has to be in the morning, like regular school time, so I can't just work on it some Thursday & go see the teacher whenever I'm done

Thanks for your help in advance, guys

It is 2:37 AM where I live

[zootm]

use relative links, rather than absolute ones.

if your HTML file is in CDROOT:\html\ and you want to reference CDROOT:\files\blah.txt, use the link "..\files\blah.txt". that should work.

[mark]

use a cdrw to practice

[cmountford]

thanks...I'll check it out. Yeah I'd set up a CD-RW for this purpose in dreamweaver last night before going to bed, but just wasn't sure exactly what to do next

[MonKeyRum]

yeah listen to zootm

Otherwise you could write another app to place on the disk to find the drive and then pass it to your code -> but theres a crap load of limitations and probably won't work out in you situation

[CaboWaboAddict]

Originally posted by zootm
use relative links, rather than absolute ones.

if your HTML file is in CDROOT:\html\ and you want to reference CDROOT:\files\blah.txt, use the link "..\files\blah.txt". that should work.

if you use a single period like this -> .\ it means start in the current directory.

if you use a double period like this -> ..\ it means move one directory toward the root and start there.

Hope this helps...

[cmountford]

okay okay, so like what I don't get is, ummmm...let's say we have the html file just in plain old <whatever the CD drive letter is>

Then I have other files in various folders I want to have as links in the web page, but obviously all the links need to work the same way. I'm also trying to figure out the code for a pop under readme text file for whenever someone clicks a link to install something, and of course, for those of us with popup blockers, it will also have a link for use without popup. If anyone knows the code right off, it'll save me a hell a lot of time.

So I'm not clear whether you put this CDROOT:\ in the hyperlink or what, and where the .\ versus ..\

I hear what you're saying, but don't really know the stuff you're talking about, like WHAT is it moving one directory...etc.

[ryan]

<a href="./">current directory</a>

Would be the directory index.html is in.

And say you're in ./files and want to access something in a folder that is on the root of the CD

<a href="../somethingelse">Goes up one directory from the current</a>

[cmountford]

so where does CDROOT go?

[ryan]

Nowhere.