MenuBox - Leverage your web design experience to create sophisticated
multimedia content or quickly build powerful text-based menus. Use MenuBox to
AutoRun-enable your CDs and DVDs, as a multi-purpose application launcher, or
as a customized HTML browser. Features include a windowless mode to directly
open a document (e.g. PDF, PowerPoint, Word, etc.) when your medium is inserted
in the drive and conditional logic to install viewers, to create
Features
Designed to be compatible, reliable and powerful, and to allow you to be up
and running in minutes, not hours
Widely deployed and tested for over 5 years, used on millions of CDs and DVDs
Text-based approach is powerful, yet lightweight and easy to master
Complex HTML content can be created with existing authoring experience and tools
Quietly takes care of numerous details (involving paths, messaging, spawning,
etc.) required for compatibility with different applications and operating system
versions (not the usual "ShellExecute wrapper")
Extends the original AutoRun specification (which applies to executable files)
by also allowing documents to be automatically opened when the medium is inserted
Conditional code can be used to display messages, install recommended software
(e.g. viewer for PDF, PowerPoint, Word, Flash, AVI or MPEG, or VB runtime),
branch to menu window, etc.
Multilingual support: automatically open localized documents and menu windows
based on system language
Menu windows created with MenuBox include support for custom window attributes
(e.g. size, borders, full screen), application title and icon, color depth-optimized
bitmaps, mouseover help texts, sound effects, launching programs, opening URLs,
minimized/maximized options, printing documents, browsing directories, checking
for software updates, etc.
The MenuBox HTML browser container features an extended document object model
(e.g. to launch applications or to close the MenuBox window via HTML and scripting,
but without warning messages) and kiosk mode functionality (automatic reset,
disabling of mouse text selection and context menus, etc.), and supports internet-enabled
input devices (i.e. events for Back, Forward, Home, etc.)
Can be used to fulfill AutoRun requirement of Windows Logo programs
Redistributable runtime code is digitally signed using Authenticode (as AutoRun
is increasingly perceived as a potential security risk, some policies may prevent
the running of unsigned applications)
Single, royalty-free, compact redistributable runtime file
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