Tested Platforms: PC
- Windows XP SP2 + service updates to 12/19/2005, AutoRun Enabled … OK!
- Windows XP SP2 + service updates to 12/19/2005, AutoRun Disabled (and broken) on my notebook. Only Projector file visible, clickable. Acceptable.
- Windows 2000 Advanced Server + service updates to /12/1/2005, AutoRun Enabled. Icon didn’t show, replaced with generic icon. label didn’t show. Presentation launched automatically. Double-clicking CD drive launched presentation as it should.
- need to set up some virtual machines for Win98, ME, 2000 testing
Tested Platforms: Macintosh
- PowerBook 12″ MacOS 10.4.3 … OK!
- iBook 300MHz (bondi blue) running MacOS 9.2 … No autoopen or fanciness of course. Flash Player doesn’t even run on it anyway.
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I am still going to go through your process, which seems pretty bulletproof, but I can’t help but wonder why the normal ‘hybrid’ preset doesn’t work straight out of toast 8. The interface provides the means to add icons, labels, autorun, make files invisible, etc.
Except when I try this it behaves correctly for mac, but doesn’t make the files I marked invisible go away on windows. If that part worked then you would do everything you listed out right in the toast interface in a matter of seconds.
Or am I missing something?
Ben: It’s been such a long time since I’ve had to actually make a hybrid CD-ROM since I wrote this article, and these instructions are for Toast 7. I haven’t used Toast 8, so I can’t speak to its features. I believe that is what you are missing.
Thanks for the reply, Dave. I actually spoke too soon… In a n00bish move, I forgot that I had visible files turned on. D’oh.
The CD works great – and all features outlined in your article were taken care of directly in Toast 8’s interface under the normal hybrid CD option (not custom). I just wanted to post that here because it seems that all roads lead to this article when searching for hybrid cd authoring. (Toast’s site is useless)
Cheers!
As a follow up to Ben’s comment, this also works more or less out of the box in Toast 9. Briefly:
1. Created disk image with ALL (Mac+PC) files.
2. Made Mac layout all pretty and used setfile to hide any files user doesn’t need to see (including ALL PC files).
3. Drug mounted volume into Toast (after creating new Mac+PC project), used the check boxes to set which files are visible to Macs, PCs or both, un-hid the PC executable.
4. Burn.
Glad to have found this page again (like a long lost friend). Found it a couple of years ago, when it helped with a client’s project, but I stupidly forgot to bookmark it. Cue a frantic Google with different keywords to rediscover it. Got it again, and bookmarked it. It all works brilliantly. The only thing that didn’t quite work for me was the set up of the Mac window that opens when you insert the disc. For some reason, even if I hide the toolbars and set up the window as I want it to reappear before closing it, it never quite keeps all the properties of the original window (a scrollbar will reappear, or the background image won’t quite fit the new window size). Apart from that – all good.
ah – ok – got it (re above problem)
If anyone else was suffering from the same issue as my post above, sudo bless the disk image/folder BEFORE arranging the window, background pic, files and part of screen you want it to appear. Then close the finder window, unmount the volume and then try mounting it again.
This worked for me.
http://www.nibfile.com/site/products.php
Auto open is still alive
I seem to be either too tired or too stupid to get this right. It all seems pretty logical, but the mac image won’t be read by toast, therefore crucial files are missing. Started anew with the normal MAC&PC option, I hope this will bring some decent results. But even though things didn’t work out 100% for me, this is one of the most comprehensible tuts I’ve found on the subject. I’ll finally buy a PC for testing and try this again….
YOU ARE THE MAN!!!! thanks a lot from italy. you saved me a bunch of time.