HTML Executable

[Daz]

I want to make a website into an executable so I can burn it onto CD and give to people at a launch. I found this piece of software here which seems like it will do the trick - http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Reviews/r374.html - only I'm looking for something free or any other alternatives? Has anyone else done this before?

[xhtmlcoder]

Do you actually want it as an executable or to autorun once the CD is inserted, because the latter is much easier.

[Daz]

autorun would be brilliant if possible, can you show me the way?

[John Colby]

Now I haven't tried it, but an ex colleague used to recommend http://www.ashzfall.com/products/autorun/ (freeware) and specifically http://www.ashzfall.com/products/aut...owsercall.html for html autoruns.

[Jeff Lange]

There's no need to use an application to create it. All you need to do is use the following autorun.inf:

shellexecute=path\to\file.html

[Daz]

Can you explain that a bit more Jeff? I mean do I open Notepad insert that bit of code, save as autorun.inf? Then what next?

[Daz]

Actually it seems that command only applies to Win2K machines which I won't be running this cd on.

Basically this html executable application will do the job but there's bound to be a free version of something similar!

[xhtmlcoder]

I have tried Autorun.inf Maker (see post #4) in the past and it seemed to work all right.

[Jeff Lange]

Actually it applies to any machine that has IE5+ Installed I believe.

[AdidasROXX]

I actually did this for a school project a while back.

Find a html complier. do a search on "ebook compiler" or something along those lines. an executable HTML file is bascially an ebook.

Then create the autorun.inf file using notebad. See if you can find an autorun CD and just copy and paste the code over to your's, replacing the filename with your's. I would tell what the exact code is but I'm not home =)

[DougBTX]

I want to make a website into an executable so I can burn it onto CD and give to people at a launch.

Two options:

• Have the HTML files on the disk, and then wrtie an application to launch the files in a browser
• Create a complied HTML viewer, which will have its own browsing interface

The first option is easily done in any Windows programming language. In Delphi, (you can get a trial from www.borland.com) all you need is this:

ShellExecute(Handle, 'open',
  'index.htm',nil,nil, SW_SHOWNORMAL);

That would launch the default web browser, and you are away.

The second option, I've never gone down, so I can't really tell you what software to use...

hth,
Douglas