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Heckno
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Posted: 12th Jan 2005 09:11
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Is there any way to have an dbp exe automatically startup from cd?
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Lost in Thought
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Posted: 12th Jan 2005 11:24
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Do a google search for autorun.inf or cd auto run I think there is an example of how to get any program to startup from cd auto.

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Heckno
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Posted: 12th Jan 2005 23:25
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did just that and got one that works, I guess google is the answer to everything - Thanks lost
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Lost in Thought
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Posted: 13th Jan 2005 01:57
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Glad you got it going.

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blanky
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Posted: 17th Jan 2005 01:41
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For those who don't Google:

Open Notepad and type in:

[autorun]
OPEN=your_program's_name.exe
ICON=an_icon.ico

If you have a ICO file there, otherwise:

[autorun]
OPEN=your_program's_name.exe

Then, click File -> Save. Change where it says 'Text documents' or whatever to 'All files', and in Filename type autorun.inf

Save it somewhere.

Now, when you burn the CD, put the autorun.inf file at the top level (i.e., not in any folders).

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Heckno
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Posted: 20th Jan 2005 01:23
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ok, how do i get it to run on a second computer (the program) since the person I want to send this to does not have the DBPro installed.

Every time I tried the cd on my second computer, it comes up with missing/could not load DBprosetupdebug dll..
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Dodo
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Posted: 20th Jan 2005 05:58 Edited at: 20th Jan 2005 05:58
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err, you have made the exe haven't you(press F4 in the editor)?

Part of solving the problem is actually noticing that the problem is there in the first place

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Heckno
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Posted: 24th Jan 2005 01:24
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still not working, apparently on some systems you can't transfer games or stuff you have made with DBPro....

F4 or F5 exe files don't work on my laptop computer.......
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Cryptoman
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Posted: 24th Jan 2005 01:53
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Don't encrypt your media, Especially if you are using .png Images. My .exe's give stupid errors like that for sure when I use .png's.


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vid1987
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Posted: 25th Jan 2005 06:21
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I am having the same problem but i am trying to launch an exe from an html file from notepad with an anchor (<a href="C:/mygame.exe"><p>my game</p></a> i took all the media and included it into the exe and then i opened the html and tried clicking on the link and it started up the exe but it said error are you sure you want to launch this file. am i doing something wrong

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