Congratulations!! You have the most idiotic post of the day!
Maybe not. If you think there are 10 mac vendors and 200 PC vendors, then you don't really know how much crap is available for the Windows market...
But seriously, I can remember from my youth, that being an Atari developer in a small Poland country (which is where I live) was really pleasant and easy - because of lack of competition... I was able to earn some real money (to buy more developer tools...) despite the fact, that Atari had a minor marketshare in Poland, maybe less than Apple today, and mostly in home-user market, not in lucrative creative market, as Apple.
No, I centainly didn't account Classic apps in my recall, don't treat my as a complete fool:-) Apparently you are right, that only Apple disk-images use the "autorun" feature, I don't remember it that precisely.
Of course I understand the difference between Audio-CD, Data-CD (and MP3-CD, which is really a Data-CD). The only reason I started to comment on this topic is that you wrote "OS X doesn't autoplay CDs" which I misunderstood, so I think it's time to EOT for me:-)
> That only autoplays *music* CDs.
Uhm, I haven't got the idea, sorry. But hey, I can recall several disk images with some shareware software or system updates, that launched installer automatically, after mounting. So maybe there is some API to "autoplay" any volume mounted, just like in classic Mac OS and Windows?
> OSX doesn't "autoplay" CDs. > I suspect if you wish you could create an Applescript to play the files in iTunes when a disk is mounted.
That's not true, at least on 10.2. 1. Look into System Preferences, click on CD/DVD icon. 2. Set a preference for "When you insert a music CD" to "Open iTunes". 3. Open iTunes, then open Preferences. 4. Set a preference for "On CD Insert" to "Begin Playing".
One flaw: when you insert a CD while iTunes is NOT launched yet, then it doesn't autoplay - iTunes is launched AFTER the CD is considered to be "inserted", so when iTunes launches the CD is already present and mounted. But any consecutive CD inserted autoplays well.
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Maybe not. If you think there are 10 mac vendors and 200 PC vendors, then you don't really know how much crap is available for the Windows market...
But seriously, I can remember from my youth, that being an Atari developer in a small Poland country (which is where I live) was really pleasant and easy - because of lack of competition... I was able to earn some real money (to buy more developer tools...) despite the fact, that Atari had a minor marketshare in Poland, maybe less than Apple today, and mostly in home-user market, not in lucrative creative market, as Apple.
No, I centainly didn't account Classic apps in my recall, don't treat my as a complete fool :-) Apparently you are right, that only Apple disk-images use the "autorun" feature, I don't remember it that precisely.
Of course I understand the difference between Audio-CD, Data-CD (and MP3-CD, which is really a Data-CD). The only reason I started to comment on this topic is that you wrote "OS X doesn't autoplay CDs" which I misunderstood, so I think it's time to EOT for me :-)
> That only autoplays *music* CDs. Uhm, I haven't got the idea, sorry. But hey, I can recall several disk images with some shareware software or system updates, that launched installer automatically, after mounting. So maybe there is some API to "autoplay" any volume mounted, just like in classic Mac OS and Windows?
> OSX doesn't "autoplay" CDs.
> I suspect if you wish you could create an Applescript to play the files in iTunes when a disk is mounted.
That's not true, at least on 10.2.
1. Look into System Preferences, click on CD/DVD icon.
2. Set a preference for "When you insert a music CD" to "Open iTunes".
3. Open iTunes, then open Preferences.
4. Set a preference for "On CD Insert" to "Begin Playing".
One flaw: when you insert a CD while iTunes is NOT launched yet, then it doesn't autoplay - iTunes is launched AFTER the CD is considered to be "inserted", so when iTunes launches the CD is already present and mounted.
But any consecutive CD inserted autoplays well.