Glen, Autorun on the Mac virtually does not exist. Even when it was a QuickTime feature (a long time ago) it was never embraced by the Mac community. As far as I know, it's not possible on contemporary systems. That doesn't mean that there's not a workaround, such as a third-party app that somehow detects that the CD has been inserted and launches something from the CD, etc., but I hedge out of ignorance.
I personally think autorun is terrible and significantly intrusive and disable it on all my machines. I do an enormous amount of educational CDs, and producers favor autorun for Windows about half the time. To each his own. In any case, autorun for the Mac is not a reality. Re: how-to, the app and exe files are distinct. When making a hybrid, you can hide each from the other platform. Considering the lifetime of hybrid CDs to date, Win creation of hybrids is relatively recent. Typically, they are usually created using Toast on a Mac. However, these are gross generalities. I've been enthused by Win apps that can make hybrids over the past several years, but have no experience with them. To answer your other questions, any OS X installation can unzip, and supporting OS 9 is an extreme degree of support these days. I say that as a lifetime Mac user that wants Mac support to continue. Even in the educational markets I work in (higher ed) OS 9 is no longer supported. In fact, I've moved away from Stuffit formats because zipping/unzipping is built into the Mac OS and you need to have Stuffit Expander to decompress a BinHex. (The expander is free, but you have to get it if you don't have it, and the way it's distributed these days is massive--no longer a tiny download.) However, that's not a very useful hybrid and is 180 degrees from autorun. This is because you can't just double-click the app. You must first decompress to your hard drive and then double click. The better way to create the hybrid is to have all shared data on one volume (on the Mac, it's the HFS volume), have the Windows-specific files on an ISO partition, and the Mac-specific files on an HFS (HFS+, etc.) partition. I inferred from your email that you had those instructions, but it further implies that you should offer the app, not the zip, so the user can double-click from the CD. I wish I could direct your more specifically on the Win creation of hybrids, but it's not my platform. Rich http://www.LearningActionScript3.com _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
