akki
06-11-2007, 02:18 AM
I've got a CD on which I intend to distribute software which is nothing but a flash program that accesses xml and some audio files on the CD. These are apparently un-copyable.
I need a way to make this an autorunning multiplatform CD. Thats the basic problem.
Also, I need some kind of "dummy" installer program that will do nothing but bring up a UI and save a couple of files on the local disk. I have decided to write this in java.
I need help figuring out how to launch this java program when the CD is inserted and then proceed with the following.
- Find out if flash is installed or not (I'm not sure if that's necessary. I have an exe and a hqx file)
- Find out next if an installation has occurred previously by looking in default paths. If not, prompt for installation or ask them to run the launcher.jar that has already been put on their local disks.
- The installation consists of nothing but saving the launcher.jar on the local disk.
- Now when launcher.jar is clicked, all it needs to do is find the cd or prompt the user to locate the CD and execute a script (either on the CD or the localdisk) that will launch the .exe file or the .hqx file (the hqx file should be opened in the sense, executed)
Thats all my problem is. This is the crappiest and the most futile thing I'm doing in 4 years and I have no clue what the client has with installation programs!
I need a way to make this an autorunning multiplatform CD. Thats the basic problem.
Also, I need some kind of "dummy" installer program that will do nothing but bring up a UI and save a couple of files on the local disk. I have decided to write this in java.
I need help figuring out how to launch this java program when the CD is inserted and then proceed with the following.
- Find out if flash is installed or not (I'm not sure if that's necessary. I have an exe and a hqx file)
- Find out next if an installation has occurred previously by looking in default paths. If not, prompt for installation or ask them to run the launcher.jar that has already been put on their local disks.
- The installation consists of nothing but saving the launcher.jar on the local disk.
- Now when launcher.jar is clicked, all it needs to do is find the cd or prompt the user to locate the CD and execute a script (either on the CD or the localdisk) that will launch the .exe file or the .hqx file (the hqx file should be opened in the sense, executed)
Thats all my problem is. This is the crappiest and the most futile thing I'm doing in 4 years and I have no clue what the client has with installation programs!