How do you make a menu?

benol · Post by **benol** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 5:27 pm

I want to make a menu that autostarts on a CD I am going to produce, and hand out to my friends. It will be titled "Uber Boulder Eater Anthology" and will include Uber Boulder eater, Uber Boulder Eater 2, Uber Boulder Eater SE, and the soon-to-be finished Uber Boulder Eater 3. One question. How do I do this? I want to make a visual, graphical menu, but I have no idea on how to do that. Can any of you help me? It would be greatly appreciated, and I will even send you all of the Uber Boulder Eater games I have made.

Post by **bicostp** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 6:03 pm

Make a program that has a button to launch each of those programs, then set it up in the autorun.inf file.

http://autorun.moonvalley.com/autoruninf.htm

benol · Post by **benol** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 6:35 pm

bicostp wrote:Make a program that has a button to launch each of those programs, then set it up in the autorun.inf file.

http://autorun.moonvalley.com/autoruninf.htm

How do I make a program with buttons? I have no programming skizilz whatsoever.

Adam G · Post by **Adam G** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 8:15 pm

benol wrote: How do I make a program with buttons? I have no programming skizilz whatsoever.

Well, rather than buttons, why not use screen pics of the title screen? With a caption or something under it saying "Play x" where x is your game title.

You need to code it in some language, since you're starting, try Visual Basics. I can link you to a link that has a few links that would lead you to a link leading you to a download link of a Portable version of said program, would that be allowed?

...or add me on msn

agarrison4(at)msn(dot)com

bacteria · Post by **bacteria** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 8:37 pm

Three thoughts, I have used them all in the past:

1) download a program that can do this for you, look in nonags.com, they might have a free one

2) look on a computer cover disk you have lying about, some of them use generic menus and text files for the menu text and launch program data

3) use a program like Microsoft Powerpoint, or similar, to show pics and links, save the file as "Package for CD". Include the viewer files on the CD and make an autorun file (look on a computer cover disk for one) on the CD root directory so it runs the application when the disk is inserted.

Adam G · Post by **Adam G** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 12:56 am

Well, I got bored and made one...

Rar/Zip archive includes...

UBE1.exe //Uber Boulder Eater 1
UBE2.exe //Uber Boulder Eater 2
UBE3.exe //Uber Boulder Eater 3
UBESE.exe //Uber Boulder Eater Special Edition
UBE.exe //Uber Boulder Eater Menu
UBE icon.exe //Uber Boulder Eater icon
Autorun.inf //Autorun CD file

Autorun.inf wrote:[autorun]
open=UBE.exe
icon=UBE icon.ico
label=Uber Boulder Eater

Downloads

Rapidshare
Rar archive...
http://rapidshare.com/files/61977409/UBE.rar.html
Zip archive...
http://rapidshare.com/files/61977524/UBE.zip.html

Megaupload
Rar archive...
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5D29ACHN
Zip archive...
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0ZTDNAIF

RarHost
Rar archive...
http://www.rarhost.com/download-h5j4kz.html

Rar archives are 8.81MB
Zip archives are 9.63MB
Unpacked, they are 13.9MB

Request a mirror and whatever else. If you need a Jotti picture or something, just ask.

Hope you like it,

~Adam~

benol · Post by **benol** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 11:28 am

Thanks, but it's kinda ugly.

Post by **CronoTriggerfan** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 11:44 am

benol wrote:Thanks, but it's kinda ugly.

Don't complain, it's free. If it's so bad, program your own.

CTFan

Adam G · Post by **Adam G** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 3:49 pm

benol wrote:Thanks, but it's kinda ugly.

What's ugly about it? They're screen pics from your game.
Are you referring to the splash or the text?

hack124x768 · Post by **hack124x768** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 12:18 am

I have seen some really retarded ones that simply launched an explorer window with an html page that had image links to the programs on the disk. I think it was my old wireless card actually.
ex: <a href="program.exe">Launch Program!</a>

benol · Post by **benol** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 5:22 am

Adam G wrote:
benol wrote:Thanks, but it's kinda ugly.
What's ugly about it? They're screen pics from your game.
Are you referring to the splash or the text?

It's the splash. Just the fact that the pictures overlap.

Kyo · Post by **Kyo** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 8:45 am

on an unrelated matter, you know what I hate about your game?

That if you press two arrow keys at once, the little round thingy just stops. Which annoys, cause for a short second I always do that when changing the direction.

Bibin · Post by **Bibin** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 3:34 pm

I'll whip you up a launcher in about three minutes if you tell me where the .exe's would be located relative to the root directory.