CD update...

[xbury.cs at clearstream.com]

Shari,

I once made a mac version of a CD for PC in HC. It was hell on wheels too.
For the mac version we made a Mac specific session on a multisession cd.
Thus the PC didn't see the mac and viceversa...

on the PC you can also use an autorun.ini file to launch a beatiful 
installer -
much less messy than having the user open folders on the cd...

The other solution (simpler) is to make 2 separate folders, one for mac 
and 
one for PC. Beats the purpose of having multi-platform engines though.

One last solution for you to use the cd in a protected manner as you wish:
Put a 300MB semi-random file on your cd and read a part of it with known
data. Users wont copy that file onto their drives and it ensures the cd is 
there.

cheers
Xavier

On 11/07/2003 03:46:55 metacard-admin wrote:
>>Shari:
>>
>>If you simply want to ensure the program is on a CD, a simple test
>>is to try writing a temp file to the same directory as the program .
>>If the result is not empty, then it's locked and thus on CD. If the
>>result is empty, delete the temp file and report that the program
>>will only run from CD.
>>
>>Don't know if this is helpful.
>>
>>/H
>
>Actually they must install the program on their hard drive to run it,
>but it does need the CD to run.
>
>Things are not going well with the CD so far.  I had to give up on
>the query for the CD, and use another (very poor) option.
>Dissatisfied.  And where I had a nice image in the background of the
>folder, the image turned to mud on Windows.  I had chopped up an
>image into icons for the folder backdrop.  Beautiful on Mac, horrible
>on Windows.  At this moment, I should have at least 25 CD's burned.
>Tomorrow I should be packing, and taking care of other things.  I
>expected to have this done two weeks ago... *sigh*
>
>Shari C

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