CDBrowser is a stand-alone front-end program for distributed CD-ROM disks. It will seamlessly run executable files which are linked within your .html content, without putting up those annoying warnings that full-fledged web browsers do. If you are making a CD containing AutoCAD drawings for distribution to people who you know have AutoCAD installed, href links to the .dwg files will launch AutoCAD with the file loaded. Same with .pdf files, text files and windows help files. CDBrowser was created for shareware authors, to create disks which would permit program installations on any target machine. The "Setup Wizard", cdb_gen.exe, permits you to tweak your presentations size, start-up file and menu in real time. CDBrowser has eight start-up parameters that can be tweaked in the Setup Wizard and you can create your masterpiece. You can tweak the appearance of the display in the Wizard and then burn the entire contents of the folder(s) involved to CD. The Wizard will have created an autorun.inf file for you and copied CDBrowser.exe into place.
With CDBrowser you can specify the start-up height and width (or go full screen) and there is a "borderless" option.
You can work with as many different presentations as you wish and each one's setting are retained between work
sessions. The best part is that cdb_gen.exe also creates the autorun.inf file for you, with all of your preffered
settings in place, ready to burn to CD-ROM. The application requires a number of command-line parameters to operate
properly and the setup Wizard will help you experiment with these before you fire up your burner and start using disks. If you are satisfied with the presentation, the Wizard writes all the parameters for you. The application is
designed to be a CD-ROM browser, not an Internet browser. When the user clicks on any HREF link to a file which does NOT have extensions like: .htm, .html, .shtml, .asp, .gif, .jpg, .jpeg, .bmp, then CDBrowser uses ShellExecute to attempt to run the file.
