- The Discstarter Designer is a comfortable tool that helps you to individually configure Discstarter to your needs. You can e.g. define the size of the browser window or make changes to the look and feel. It is only needed at design time.
- The Discstarter Runtime System is a very compact application that gets deployed together with your other files on the CD-ROM. It displays the HTML pages of your menu in the way as previously configured with Discstarter Designer
Feature List:
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Web Standards compliance: Front ends for Discstarter are made of (standards compliant) HTML pages (which can be created using any HTML or web editor, e.g. mirabyte Web Architect!) |
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Browser plug ins: All features of modern browsers are supported (also Flash, PlugIn's, Quicktime, JavaScript, DHTML, etc.) |
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Adaptability: The Discstarter window can be customized in any possible way (with/without window border, borderless or even with a skin, optional toolbar which can be fully customized, window title, taskbar title, icon, etc.) |
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Skins: No more boring rectangular Windows! Make your menus look unique by applying a custom window skin. |
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Popup blocker: Popup blocker and browser security features do not influence the functionality of your front end (e.g. when clicking on links that refer to an executable file) |
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Execute files: Instantly execute any file type in the appropriate application via hyperlink (great for PDF's!) |
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Copy files: Copy and or execute files via hyperlink (perfectly suited for software CD-ROMs) |
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Checking system requirements : (e.g. Flash, QuickTime or Java) on the target machine and display an alternative menu if system requirements are not fulfilled |
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Context menus: can be customized or deactivated |
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Modern GUI effects: such as a drop-shadow for windows and a smooth fade-in effect on program start-up are available |
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Maximum compatibility: Discstarter runs with ALL Windows versions from Windows 95 to Windows Vista - even Windows 7! |
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Platform independence: Discstarter is a Windows application but HTML-based menus can be viewed in any browser on any operating system. This allows you using the same menu also on Linux or Macintosh systems. |
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Customizable background music: Play only once, repeat permanently or stop playback upon the first mouse click of the user |
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Command line: Execute any application, even with command line parameters directly out of your HTML pages |
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Multi language support: Automatic detection of the target machines language. This allows you to automatically switch to a translated version of your CD-ROM menu |
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Printing features: Headers and footers can be suppressed if you print a page within Discstarter (perfect for print forms) |
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Splash screen: Display a customizable splash screen on application start-up (non-rectangular shapes are possible) |
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Toolbar: Optional, fully customizable toolbar (define, color, icons, order and which buttons to show) |
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External extensions: Use Discstarter with a CD-ROM Web server that does not require any installation (this allows you to use PHP, Perl, MySQL, etc.) or integrate a full text search engine into your CD-ROM menu |
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Developer API: Allows the integration of additional functionality with a custom DLL file (can be created using Visual C++, C++ Builder, or Delphi!). The DLL functions can be called from the DOM with the JavaScript "external" namespace. |
