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About ShelExec v1.11
The program used to make this CD ROM load automatically under Windows...
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V1.01 (1999-07-16)
V1.02 (2000-04-09)
- Fixed a bug where the verb "Open" was always used.
- Program now understands a /Verb:Value command line which allows the verb to
be specified as used in the ShellExecute call. Not specifying a verb will use
the default value for the file as setup in the registry.
- Program now understands a /ShowCmd:Value command line which allows the "nShowCmd"
value to be specified as used in the ShellExecute call. Not specifying a value
will use the value SW_SHOW.
- Code now uses MFC internally.
- Code now supports UNICODE and build configurations are provided
V1.1 (2001-02-10)
- Program now understands a /EXE command line which allows the a specific command
line to be specified: e.g ShelExec.exe /EXE mplayer2.exe "/PARAMS:/play E:\WINNT\Media\canyon.mid".
- Program now understands a /DIR:Value command line which allows the startup
directory for an application to be specified.
- Updated copyright information.
V1.11 ( 2001-10-01)
- Fixed a bug which was causing ShelExec to fail on some versions of Windows
with the error code 1155.
- Updated version infos of the exectuable.
- Code now uses ShellExecuteEx instead of ShellExecute internally.
- A hidden window is now created when ShelExec starts. This allows verbs such
as "properties" to now work correctly. Thanks to Santosh Rao for suggesting this
addition.
- Icon used for ShellExec is now consistent with the new icon styles used by
Windows XP.
You are allowed to include the source code in any product (commercial, shareware,
freeware or otherwise) when your product is released in binary form. You are allowed
to modify the source code in any way you want except you cannot modify the copyright
details at the top of each module. If you want to distribute source code with your
application, then you are only allowed to distribute versions released by the author.
This is to maintain a single distribution point for the source code.
- The program is for Win32 only and has no external requirements on dlls other
than the ones shipped as standard with any Win32 platform.
- Places where you might find ShelExec useful are in adding an Autorun.inf file
to your CD-R / CD-RW Discs. For example suppose you have a HTML page called index.htm
on the root of your CD which you would like to run automatically whenever the
user inserts the CD. All you need to do is put ShelExec.exe, some ico file and
the index.htm files into the root directory and create a autorun.inf file with
the following contents:
[autorun]
open=ShelExec.exe index.html
icon=youricon.ico
- Items that ShelExec can handle include any file which is registered with the
shell e.g. Word .Doc files, Text Files, batch files etc etc. It can also handle
URLS such as "http://somesite.com", "ftp://www.microsoft.com" and "mailto:pjna@naughter.com".
- The more technically minded of you may say why is there a need to have this
program since you can use "start filename" on autorun CD's without any apparent
problems. The problem with this approach is that it does not work on NT because
on NT "start" is implemented as an "Internal" command in cmd.exe (as opposed to
a standard exe on 95/98) with the upshot that your CD's will not AutoRun on NT
4 or Windows 2000. Using ShelExec will mean that your CD's will
autorun on all OS's which support it.
PJ Naughter
Email: pjna@naughter.com
Web: http://www.naughter.com
2001-10-01
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