[CLUG] multiplatform autorun cd

[Mark Twomey]

On 5 Oct 2005, at 20:17, Peter Flynn wrote:

> BTW how do you run the default browser in X anyway (assuming the  
> user has one set)? Is there an agreed alias or location, or do you  
> have to
> test for the presence of the binary of the most popular browsers?

Not a coder but every copy of OS X ships with Safari and I'd guess  
it'll default to that if told otherwise. I'm not familiar enough with  
the development side to tell you how you'd auto launch applications  
the moment you pop in a CD, you might want to give the pages at  
http://developer.apple.com/ or the development lists linked from  
there a good shake.
Disk Images are part of MacOS X and the Open Sourced Darwin core,  
DropDMG just masks the command line utilities, such as hdiutil  
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/ 
man1/hdiutil.1.html> which you'd use to create such things.

If I recall Apple recommend that all MacOS X software be packaged  
inside a Disk Image as it saves resource forks and so on. Not a  
problem if you're not using them but it's now pretty much what people  
expect to see when they grab software.

Mark.