MenuBox Wizard

The MenuBox Wizard makes it possible to built MenuBox projects by using preset templates, without requiring any knowledge of the technical details involving the various MenuBox and AutoRun configuration files. Projects created with the MenuBox Wizard can then be further edited, e.g. by manually modifying the MenuBox configuration file output by the wizard.

To launch the MenuBox Wizard open MenuBox Wizard in the MenuBox program group of the Start menu.

Project Files

The MenuBox Wizard can be used to work on an existing set of project files (e.g. a set of HTML documents, or a complex CD AutoRun project) or to put together the files as the various details are collected by the wizard. In either case, the destination (output) folder entered in the wizard can be either the final destination of the project (e.g. a set of CD master files), if available, or a project-specific folder used only for the MenuBox portion (e.g. in "My Documents").

Files with Dependencies

If the files used by the final MenuBox project have not yet been organized into a single redistributable set, the MenuBox Wizard can copy the various items which you indicate, and copy them to the output directory as appropriate. This is usually a straightforward process, as it involves copying atomic files (e.g. a CD icon file, a viewer installation executable, etc.) However, in some cases, files may have dependencies, and MenuBox Wizard has no way of knowing that it has to copy more than one required file.

Cases in which files referenced by MenuBox may depend on other files include:

HTML projects, where only the default page is entered into MenuBox Wizard (which does not "know" about linked files, including images)

• Executable files with linked libraries (DLLs) and other resources, in which case the main executable file name is entered into MenuBox, but other required components are not
  
• In these cases it is important to manually make sure that the entire set of files is available in the final project directory.

Project Signature

Files created with the MenuBox Wizard include a signature in the project data. If the MenuBox configuration file (named "menubox.ini" by default) is modified manually (without using the MenuBox Wizard), the signature must be updated with the Sign Project tool.