How to run a file / link to external files (run: and save:)
Placing links to any kind of file is very simple. When the user clicks the link, the program runs the file with the MSWindows program registered for its file extension.
To be sure you can also include (and launch) selfextracting viewer programs such as the
Adobe Acrobat Reader.
There are two ways: a link to an embedded file, or a link to an external file. When the user will click on a link to an external file, the file will be immediately launched. A click on an embedded file link will prompt a "Save / Execute" dialog window.
Embedded file: select a text block or a picture, and use "Insert >Link to embedded file", then browse the HD. The selected file will be inserted in the internal album. "Hypertext >Images - files - link archive and erase" is the only way to remove the file from the album.
External file: select a text block or a picture, and use "Insert >Link to external file", "Add" button, "run:afoldername\afilename.exe".
In the picture below we added a link to "mydocument.pdf", a PDF file that we want to show, and to "ar405eng.exe", the self installing Adobe Acrobat Reader (the Viewer for the PDF files)
this means that you will make sure the CD will contain, in the folder "data" the files "ar405eng.exe" (the selfextracting file for the Adobe Acrobat Reader, i.e. the PDF Viewer) and "mydocument.pdf".
You can do the same thing for multiple PDF files, and also for DOC, ZIP, PP (Power Point) or any other file and Viewer.
Another acceptable syntax is "run:afoldername\theXYZviewerprogramname.exe afoldername\thedocument.XYZ".
You can use also the syntax save: instead of run:
This will prompt a "Save as..." dialog to the end user, instead of running the file.
Example:
save:foldername\filename.pdf
or (if the file is within the root of the CD):
save:filename.pdf
IMPORTANT: Please notice that both the run: and the save: links won’t work within the editor and/or in test mode - you should actually burn a CD (maybe a CDRW) and you should place the external files correctly, e.g. if you use run:nicfolder\file.abc, then the file file.abc should actually be present within the folder nicfolder of the CD (this means that with Nero, EasyCD, WinOnCD or whatever, you should burn on the CD both the CDFrontEnd files and the external files to which you are linking).
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