CD Splash - Generate splashes for your CD/DVD. Create an autorun splash every time you put the CD/DVD in the CDROM drive

Manual
CD Splash - Make a splash

How to use it?

1. Copy the CD Splash (Splash.exe), the INI Editor (SplashEditor.exe) and the rest of the files in the root of your image CD.
2. Fill all the fields with the requiered data/info. All the fields must be green because the 'save' button will be enabled only when all fields will be filled/greened.
If you don't want to fill a field (for example you don't want to use an icon for your CD or a sound) don't leave that field empty: fill it with this keyword: none
3. Press the 'Save' butons.
4. Transfer all your files (from inside of the CD image) to your preffered burning application and burn your CD.

Main interface:

CD splash main interface

Field number:	Description	This field is mandatory
1	How long the splash will remain on screen. In our example, after 4 seconds, the splash will autoclose. You also can double click on splash (at run time) to instanly close it.	yes
2	Enter here the path of your CD image. You must complete this field first, in order to activate the rest of the fields.	yes
3	Use this buton to insert the image that will be used as background for your splash.	yes
4	Use this buton to insert a sound. The sound will be played when the splash will start. A nice effect will be to use a short sound but at very very high volume. For example a single shotgun sound	no
5	Use this buton to indicate the application that will start aditionaly with your splash. For example, if you want to burn a CD with mp3 files you can make Winamp to start. Even better: you can indicate here not the Winamp.exe but your play list. So when Winamp will be started, it will start to play the mp3 files from that CD. Great! Isn't it?	no
6	Use this buton to insert an icon file. The icon will be displayed in Windows Explorer when the CD is in the CDROM unit (the icon will be associated with the CD) .	no
7	Enter the text that will be displayed in the middle of the splash. Use the X, Y ans Size boxes to adjust the apearance of this text. In our example, the text is: "DEMO" writen with red.	no

At the end press the 'Save' button to save your settings.

What is an 'CD image' ?

The "CD image" (for the ones who still don't know) is the folder on your harddisk where you ghater all you files (700MB) before you burn the CD.
For example, right in this moment I want to burn a CD. First I will make a folder that will keep my "CD image" (doesn't matter the name) named "futureCD" somewhere on my HDD and I will move my data there.
So, the "CD image" will look like this:

C:\futureCD
|
+---[design web]
+---[docs]
+---[drivers]
+---[electronics]
+---[my pictures]
+---autorun.inf
+---fedra.ini
+---INIEditor.exe
+---logo.jpg
+---splash.exe

There are 3 critical files you need for CD Splash to work:
- autorun.inf
- fedra.ini
- splash.exe
You must put these file directly in "futureCD" folder and NOT in other external folders or in a sub folder of "futureCD".
Important: the "splash.exe" must be in the root of the CD in order to work.

Also you MAY need a picture file, a sound file and a icon file. But this file might be keeped in other folders. Mines are in "multimedia" folder. Is very easy. Right?

Note: Some people make a BIG mistake when they drag their files from Explorer into the burning application (Nero).
They click the "CD image" folder and drag it in Nero. WRONG!!!
The right way is to select all your file in that folder and drag them in Nero. YES! Drag only file from inside the folder, not the whole folder.

After burning your CD should look like this:
z:\
|
+---[design web]
+---[docs]
+---[drivers]
+---[electronics]
+---[my pictures]
+---autorun.inf
+---fedra.ini
+---INIEditor.exe
+---logo.jpg
+---splash.exe

and not like:

Z:\futureCD
|
+---[design web]
+---[docs]
+---[drivers]
+---[electronics]
+---[my pictures]
+---autorun.inf
+---fedra.ini
+---INIEditor.exe
+---logo.jpg
+---splash.exe

*where z: is the letter of my CD drive. In your computer, your CD drive might have other letter.

How many files do I need to put on the CD?
You need to write 3 files on the CD to make CD Splash to work. You must copy in your CD image the following files:
"splash.exe"
"fedra.ini"
"Autorun.inf"
The INI-Editor will generate the "Autorun.inf" and "fedra.ini" file for you.

Tips and tricks

Don't be fooled by the small size of CD Splash! CD Splash is very powerfull. You can auto-start a program aditional with the splash.
More precisely you can start NOT ONLY an exe file (application) but any kind of files as long as in the system there is a player/codec capable to play that file.
For example, you can design a webpage and make that webpage to be 'splashed' every time the CD will autorun. The web page will be started in the default web browser in that system (Mozilla, Internet Explorer or Netscape...).
Just make your webpage (HTML) and put it in your "CD image" folder. Now, the trick to do that is to persuate the INI Editor to open the file you want:
Open your INI Editor. Try to insert your web page in the field number 5 (the field that require the EXE aplication name).
It will apear that you are premited to use only EXE, COM and BAT files but is not like this. Just type *.* and it will allow you to insert any type of file you want. Use the same trick if you want to splash a gif, jpg, png, tga image or a midi, mp3, ogg, avi, mpg file. The default multimedia player will start and will play your file. In the next version, CD Splash will recognize all kinds of file types without this trick.