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AutoPlay Media Studio 7.5 is a rapid application development (RAD) platform with specialized multimedia capabilities. Simply drag and drop video, audio, images, Flash and HTML onto a blank page and arrange the layout with your mouse. With no programming knowledge required, you can instruct your project to perform actions automatically or in response to events such as mouse clicks. There are over 640 actions to choose from including executing programs, querying databases, copying files, displaying dialog boxes, sending emails, parsing XML data, interacting with web scripts and much more.

“It’s a very unique software development tool,” says Indigo Rose Software President Colin Adams. “More and more companies are using it as a rapid-development alternative to tools like Delphi, C++ and Visual Basic. While well known as being the industry standard tool for creating autoplay CD / DVD menus, it’s also being used to develop thousands of other creative applications like web tools, network utilities and much more.”

AutoPlay Media Studio’s scripting engine is based upon the fast and efficient open-source Lua programming language. This scripting language offers advanced functionality, with everything from functions and control structures to arithmetic operators and associative arrays. It also features full syntax highlighting, code completion and other advanced programming facilities.

Other features of AutoPlay Media Studio 7.5 include 17+ interactive objects (Rich Text, Slideshow, Grid, Flash, Web, Checkbox, Radio Button, Input, Video, Tree, Progress Bar and more), resource stamping, custom window shapes, enhanced cryptography actions and security features, and much more.

AutoPlay Media Studio 7.5 sells for $295 (USD) per developer (or $995 for the 5 developer Team Pack) and can be purchased from most software development tools vendors or online at http://www.indigorose.com. AutoPlay Media Studio 7.5 is compatible with Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP and earlier versions. A free 30-day trial download is available from the company’s website at http://www.indigorose.com/products/autoplay-media-studio.

About Indigo Rose Software Design Corporation
Privately held, Indigo Rose Software has been developing innovative software products and multimedia authoring tools since 1991 that are used by thousands of corporate, government and ISV customers around the world. Indigo Rose is headquartered in Winnipeg, Canada, and can be found on the Internet at http://www.indigorose.com.

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Simply combine images, music, video, flash etc – and drag n’ drop your way to fully interactive software applications. To help you get started quickly we provide extra resources including video training, professional content add-ons, an online user forum, and much more!

Create Your Own Custom Software Applications!
Even if you have no programming experience you can create your own custom software – with comparable features and performance to software products built by professional programmers using C++/Java. AutoPlay Media Studio is a full blown rapid application development platform with a wide selection of options and support for most popular technologies. Owning AutoPlay Media Studio is like having your own professional software programmer on call 24/7.

Even Non-Programmers Can Create Applications Quickly
AutoPlay Media Studio is built from the ground up to be easy to use. Even if you have absolutely no programming experience you’ll be able to get started creating your own custom applications in just minutes. No need to memorize a bunch of code, with AutoPlay Media Studio you let the application do the work for you. The built in wizards simplify common tasks like scripting and publishing so that anyone can point and click their way to fantastic projects quickly and easily.

Customizable Dialogs
Application development has been raised to a new level in AutoPlay Media Studio 7.5 with the addition of customizable dialogs. Dialogs support the same background settings, objects and events as pages do…but the options don’t stop there. Dialogs have features above and beyond pages including custom sizes, multiple windows styles, and even a custom icon. Complemented by both its own “DialogEx” action category containing 21 new actions, as well as 6 additional “Application” actions, you’ll surely find this powerful new feature a welcome addition to your design arsenal.

What’s New in 7.5?
Version 7.5 of AutoPlay Media Studio is a revolutionary upgrade with dozens of powerful new features being added. At the core is the same amazing Lua-based scripting engine found in all Indigo Rose development tools. With an enhanced selection of integrated objects and actions it’s never been easier to create advanced interactive applications using AutoPlay Media Studio. And it’s easy to extend your projects with the powerful action plugin architecture, with plugins currently available for such technologies as XML, SQLite, encryption, and more. These are just a few of the exciting additions which make it the most powerful tool in its class.

Download the Free Trial and Get Started Now!
The best way to experience the value of AutoPlay Media Studio is to try it. You can download the free trial version of AutoPlay Media Studio by clicking here. The free trial version will continue to work for a period of 30 days, so you have plenty of time to build projects and see for yourself what a great tool it is. There is no other software in its class which is easier to use, or faster to work with! If you have any questions, we’re here to help with free technical support and cost-effective consulting and integration services.

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Unlike other tools that borrow functionality from third-party installers or are built upon command line tools, Visual Patch features a completely integrated visual development environment. Visual Patch automatically takes care of the complicated details of patch development, such as inspecting versions to decide which files have changed, and performing sophisticated byte level differencing on each file in order to extract the differences between versions.

• High Performance Binary Differencing. State-of-the-art delta compression algorithms developed specifically for their impressive speed characteristics, especially for gigabyte-sized files. Create smaller patches for larger files faster.

• Full-History Patching. Gives developers full control over which versions can be patched with a single executable. Full-history patching means you can update any version of your software to the latest release with one patch file.

• Sophisticated Version Management. Makes it easy to manage software releases. You can quickly and easily add, remove and organize product versions, and see all of the important details about your files.

• Customizable User Interface. A library of over twenty different screens makes it easy to control the user interface of your patches. There are pre-built layouts to handle just about any task you can imagine, and it’s easy to adjust them to fit your needs exactly.

• 100% Data Integrity. Patches are only applied to the exact files they’re intended for. Using a combination of 128-bit MD5 hashing, CRC-32 checksums and industry standard data encryption protocols, applications and data are kept safe from unauthorized use, transmission errors and other threats.

With its sophisticated yet straightforward user interface, Visual Patch 3.5 simplifies software version management, turning the otherwise complicated task of managing point releases into a fast and automated process. There is no better way to make professional-quality, full-history binary patches for software and other electronic content.

Visual Patch 3.5 is the result of over 15 years of experience creating software deployment tools. You can rely on Indigo Rose to provide reliable tools, top quality documentation and superior technical support .

Click here to dowload a free trial version of Visual Patch 3.5

Benefits of Software Patching

The role of patches in the software deployment cycle is to get already-installed software up to date after it becomes outdated. Patching technology offers numerous benefits over simply redistributing new versions of the original software in whole form.

The first and most fundamental benefit is a dramatic reduction in file size, which leads to reduced bandwidth and storage costs. Because they only contain the data that has changed from one version to another, patches can be much smaller than a full installer or compressed archive. Especially in situations where large data files are involved, the savings are often dramatic, with typical bandwidth reductions between 90% and 99%.

Having less data to transmit means that updates can be sent and received faster, which means less time is spent waiting for updates, improving the user’s update experience and making automatic “background” updates feasible.

Binary differencing also makes the update process more secure. Transmitting only tiny portions of a file in a format that can’t be used without the original greatly reduces the risk of unauthorized use.

Competitive Position

Some tools claim to support large-file patching, but they process large files so slowly that it really isn’t feasible to use them for that purpose. Visual Patch uses a unique binary differencing algorithm that was developed to process very large files as quickly as possible. It does this while also achieving the best compression performance possible on all file sizes, large and small.

For example, in benchmark testing Visual Patch was able to create a patch for a 1.2 GB data file in under 3 minutes, whereas the nearest competitor we tested required more than 70 minutes to process the data on the same system. Some of the competing tools we tested were not even able to process such a large file, and either failed completely or were still processing after more than 24 hours.

Remarkably, Visual Patch achieves its speed without sacrificing performance, creating patches that compare favorably in size to patches created by other tools. In fact, Visual Patch’s speed permits additional size optimizations that are not feasible with other tools. For example, it can automatically perform multiple passes with different settings in order to find the optimal parameters for each particular file-and still manage to do so in less time than competing tools require for a single pass!

Visual Patch combines its advanced binary differencing engine with an intelligent full-history patching system. Full-history patches can update any older version to the latest release, allowing multiple versions to be patched with the same file. Only having one file to download simplifies the patching process. End users don’t have to worry about finding multiple patches and applying them in the correct order, as they would with other, less sophisticated patching tools.

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Whether you’re a complete novice or a seasoned programmer used to working with Microsoft Visual Basic, Macromedia Director, Microsoft Visual C++ or Borland Delphi, you’ll find that AutoPlay Media Studio 7.5 deserves a place in your toolbox. It’s perfect for making autorun CD/DVD’s, software installer menus, electronic business cards, training material and just about any other interactive multimedia project you can think of!

Visual Development Environment

Drag-and-Drop Development
Creating professional multimedia software can be both easy and fun, thanks to AutoPlay Media Studio 7.5. In fact, with our award winning WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) visual design environment, anyone can do it! Simply drag and drop your media content (text, photos, videos, Macromedia Flash, and much more) onto “pages” and then add interactivity with over 640 built-in actions. It couldn’t be easier!

Interactive Objects
There are 17 different object types to choose from. Objects types include buttons, text labels, paragraph text, rich text, images, videos, Macromedia Flash, web browsers, slideshows, hotspots, input fields, list boxes, drop-down lists, radio buttons, checkboxes, progress bars and tree controls. Each object includes a variety of events and is fully customizable.

Easy Publishing
AutoPlay Media Studio makes packaging up and distributing your finished project a snap. Whether you’d like to create a single-file executable for distribution by web download or email, or burn it to a CD/DVD data disc, it just takes a few clicks. You can even choose to publish to ISO CD/DVD images or to a hard drive folder for packing it up with an installer/setup builder.

Professional Templates
Choose from a variety of ready-to-use projects and then modify them to fit your needs. We include examples of software installer menus, electronic business cards, marketing brochures and many others. It’s also easy to make your own project templates or to add-in templates made by others.

Easy to Learn
It couldn’t be easier to create powerful multimedia applications. We’ve packed the software with wizards, tutorials, a user’s guide, context sensitive help and much more. It’s also backed up with world-class technical support options, online discussion groups, and video training lessons.

NEW! Customizable Popup Dialogs
Application development has been raised to a new level in AutoPlay Media Studio 7.5 with the addition of customizable dialogs. Dialogs support the same background settings, objects and events as pages do…but the options don’t stop there. Dialogs have features above and beyond pages including custom sizes, multiple windows styles, and even a custom icon. Complemented by both its own “DialogEx” action category containing 21 new actions, as well as 6 additional “Application” actions, you’ll surely find this powerful new feature a welcome addition to your design arsenal.

Content Gallery
We’ve included a ton of great content to get you started including background images, photos, abstracts, panels, bars, bullets, buttons, sound effects and even music files. Simply mix and match to put together a great looking project in no time.

Project Explorer
Get an overview of your project in one place. You can see all of the pages, events and objects in your project organized into a tree hierarchy. Double-click any item to edit its properties or right-click for common commands. It’s a great way to see how everything is connected.

Properties Pane
The properties pane is a fast way to view and edit all of the attributes of a page or object. You can interactively edit the object text, font, size, color, tooltip and much more without missing a beat.

Page Management
Pages are the backbone of AutoPlay Media Studio. Consider that you can have up to 1000 of them in each project and you’ll realize the importance of effective page management. Accessing pages is easy in AutoPlay, thanks to the page tabs on the main window. You can also easily change page order, rename or remove pages and more with the click of your mouse.

File Layout System
When you want to add or remove whole folders of files, or fine-tune the structure of a CD/DVD project, the File Layout dialog comes in very handy. It’s split into two panes, with your computer’s file system on the top and your project on the bottom. Select the files you want, click “add” and you’re done!

Thumbnail File Browsers
The file browsers in the product support thumbnail view, making it much faster and easier to locate files.

Quick Preview
Click the preview button and try out your project whenever you want. There’s no lengthy compiling process to wait for, so you can test changes as you make them.

Undo/Redo
Full support for undo and redo operations make it quick and easy to try out new ideas.

Align and Arrange
A full suite of alignment tools helps make quick work of your layout tasks. Simply select a group of objects and click the desired alignment button to line up their edges on the top, left, right or bottom. You can also easily distribute objects over a given space, make them all the same size, adjust their “z” order, and more.

Group, Pin, Lock & Hide
Professional design tools like object grouping allow you to move and work with multiple objects at once. The lock and pin tools keep you from accidentally moving an object out of place, while the hide and show feature is great for trying out different designs.

Grid and Ruler
Toggle on the grid for easy object placement – the automatic snapping feature makes it quick to use. The ruler is a helpful precision tool assisting you in pixel level placement of your design elements.

Guidelines
Just like in your favorite image editing software, but now in your favorite multimedia development software! Using guidelines, you can set up margins and placement rules to make sure your design looks perfect.

Customizable Toolbars
All of the toolbars and keyboard shortcuts can be reconfigured and customized to your preference. You’re not restricted by the default set up- you can lay out your favorite features the way you like to work with them.

Built-in Spelling Checker
Make sure that typos don’t creep into your projects. Just about anywhere you can type, you can perform a spell check to ensure error-free text. Dictionaries are available for over a dozen languages including English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Croatian, Czech, Polish and Slovenian.

Easy Application Development

Video, Flash, Web, Images & More
We include a wide variety of interactive objects so that you can create truly impressive projects. Compare it to any other tool (including Macromedia Director, Microsoft Visual Basic and Borland Delphi), and you’ll see that AutoPlay Media Studio is much easier to use, giving you better results faster.

Multi-Channel Audio Mixing
Your projects can take advantage of the fastest, most advanced sound effect and music handling engine available anywhere! You can play up to 8 channels of audio simultaneously with automatic selection of either hardware or software mixing. Most incredibly, it does not require any version of DirectSound or DirectX to be installed, using them only if available.

Transparency, Shadows and Blending
No competitive tool can match AutoPlay Media Studio when it comes to fast and efficient handling of complex graphics files. With our support for 32-bit PNG images, you gain access to incredible shadow effects, blending options, opacity levels and full alpha channel information. In simple terms, it means that your projects will look better than ever!

Startup Video or Flash Movie
Start your project up with an introductory video or flash animation. It can run full screen and makes an eye catching start to your project. Of course, there are a variety of options for customization including size and background color.

Custom Window Shapes
Forget about being restricted to rectangular windows. With the window mask feature, you can create projects of any size and shape you desire. Select from the included masks like “star”, “bubble” and “oval”, or make your own.

Background Music
Add a bunch of music files to the play list, and they’ll play in the background while your project runs. All of the music is automatically mixed in real-time with mouse-over sound effects and up to 6 other channels, such as audio narration.

Window Styles
Run your project as a standard window, or go for something more extraordinary like bordered, flat or even kiosk mode. Paired with the window mask option, you don’t even have to make it rectangular. Talk about eye-catching!

Automatic Sizing and Positioning of Objects
The Auto-Resize options for each object allow you to control how each side of the object responds to the page being resized at runtime. This makes it very easy to have resizable applications look right at different sizes.

Custom Icons
Now you can pick your own project icon and have it show up in the window title bar, task bar and as the executable’s icon.

Menu Bars
It’s now possible to add a standard Windows style menu bar to your project. It’s easy to configure and edit, even letting you configure nested items. When a menu item is selected, it fires a project event telling you what was chosen, allowing you to take whatever action you desire.

Resource Stamping
Set your own version resource information and have it stored in the executable. You can now change the company name, product name, copyright notice, trademark information, version identifier and other useful fields.

Automatic Code Signing
Automatically have your applications code signed during publishing. This provides a more secure experience for users and helps make applications Windows Vista compliant.

Page Keyword Searching
Specify a list of keywords associated with each page. Then at runtime use the new actions to search for keywords on pages, create an indexed table of keywords, or even show a common dialog to allow the user to perform keyword searches.

17 Interactive Objects

Button Object
A button responds automatically by changing its appearance when you move the mouse over it or click on it. With multiple image states, text options and a toggle state, buttons are used for many interactive tasks. We include a variety of pre-made button files for you to use, as well as a full featured button editor for making your own.

Text Label Object
Perfect for headlines and single line sentences, text label objects support interactive design-time resizing, custom fonts, sizes, colors, sound effects and more. An advanced anti-alias algorithm eliminates jagged edges and makes all of your text look great – even at large sizes.

Paragraph Object
Use any font, size, color or style of text you want. The software handles the required logic to automatically embed the TrueType fonts you use so your projects look great on any system. Add text effects like bold, italic and underline, set alignment options and pick from a variety of scroll bar skins.

Rich Text Object
The rich text object allows you to display rich text (.rtf) in an object. It supports background transparency as well as design-time and runtime character and paragraph formatting.

Image Object
Display pictures and other graphics in both 256 colors and 16.7 million colors. Supports all the major image file formats, including PNG, JPG, GIF and TIF. Supports interactive resizing, transparency, alpha channel, variable opacity, mouse over and click sounds, tooltip, cursor changes and more. Dynamically reduces and increases image color depth to work on all monitors and display cards.

Video Object
Embed digital video into your pages, like AVI, MPEG and WMV. You can make use of the skinable control panel for controlling the video and an extensive action set if you require the video’s playback to be controlled internally.

Adobe/Macromedia Flash Object
Play Flash movies right on your page! It’s even possible for your project to interact directly with the flash SWF file, through the use of FSCommands and variables. An extremely popular format for animations, videos, demos and many other tasks.

Web Browser Object
The web browser object lets you display a web site right on your page, just like it would appear in Internet Explorer. Easily create custom web browsers by responding to a comprehensive set of events. It’s an extremely powerful feature!

Slideshow Object
The slideshow object allows you to show a series of images in a set area. It supports automatic resizing and scaling as well as transitions between images.

Hotspot Object
Make any part of your background image “live”. The hotspot objects add flexibility to your projects by making background design elements interactive.

Input Object
Create forms and other information collection systems. Supports single and multi-line input boxes, as well as password masking, custom input masks and a variety of customization options.

List Box Object
Show a scrollable list of information, allowing single or multi-selections. For example, you could display a list of song titles (so the user could choose a song to play), or a list of topics (so the user could decide what topic to view next). Includes options for text style, colors, auto-sorting and more.

Combo Box Object
When you want to present a list of options, but need to do it in a compact and efficient manner, this object shows a dropdown list box. You can control the look and feel of the object with properties such as font face, text color, size and background color.

Checkbox Object
The checkbox object wraps the standard Windows checkbox control but takes it to a new level by allowing transparent background and mouse state text color changes.

Radio Button Object
The radio button object is great for quiz and test applications. Radio buttons support transparent backgrounds and changing text color as the mouse passes over them. Radio button selection and grouping is also handled automatically.

Progress Bar Object
Whether you need to show a percentage of a completed task, or a simple indicator gauge to keep your users informed, the progress bar is ideal. You can control the background and bar colors, text, fonts, vertical or horizontal orientation, step size, min and max values, and a variety of styles such as standard or XP look.

Tree Object
The tree object allows you to display a hierarchal list of items on the page in the well known tree format. Items can have checkboxes associated with them, or simply be selectable. The tree object has an extensive action set so you can load and manipulate tree items at run time for full flexibility.

Publishing Options

Publishing Wizard
Once you’ve got your project ready to go, the Publishing Wizard will package it up and make it ready to distribute. There are a variety of powerful options to choose from, including direct CD/DVD burning, single-file executable, ISO image or hard drive folder.

Integrated CD/DVD Burning
You can now publish directly to CD-R/CD-RW or DVD±R/DVD±RW media. Simply insert a blank disc and the wizard will burn your finished project right to it.

Web/Email Executable
Turn you finished project into a compressed, single-file executable. It’s perfect for distribution by web and email.

Hard Drive Folder
Rather do the CD/DVD burning yourself? No problem. You can easily output your project to a folder on your hard drive that’s ready to package up however you want. It’s a great choice if you are creating a traditional application and want to distribute your application with a professional software installer tool, like Setup Factory.

ISO Image
An advanced option, for people wanting to produce an ISO image for use by a CD/DVD replication company or service bureau.

The Power to Be Creative

No Programming Required
You don’t need to be a programmer to use AutoPlay Media Studio. It’s easy enough for anyone to use. While a full wizard-assisted scripting engine is available for power users, the new Quick Action tab lets new users get up to speed right away. Just fill in the blanks to handle the most popular actions like opening documents, running programs, switching pages and more. It’s really that easy!

Open Any File, Program or Document
Using the built-in actions your project will be able to open any file with an associated viewer application. Whether it is Microsoft PowerPoint (PPT), Adobe Acrobat (PDF), Microsoft Word (DOC) or any other document or program (EXE), it’s a snap.

Print Pages at Runtime
The addition of the Page.Print action allows you to print pages at runtime including options for whether or not to show a print dialog and whether to scale the pages to fit the paper.

Event Driven
Events include things like clicking on an object or moving the mouse across a page. Simply add actions to the appropriate object’s event handler and they’ll be performed automatically. This simple system, while easy to work with, is also incredibly powerful!

Page Timers
If you want to make things happen on a repeatable schedule, then timers are for you. For example, you can configure a timer to fire every 5 seconds. When it does, you can run an action of your choice like querying a web server, moving an object or playing a sound effect. It’s very powerful and very easy to do.

Flexible Scripting Engine
AutoPlay Media Studio 7.5 includes the same scripting engine as other Indigo Rose products. Based on the popular “Lua” language, this all-new and incredibly powerful free-form scripting engine gives you unprecedented control over your project. This easy to use language features everything from “for, repeat and while” loops, to “if/else” conditions, functions, variables and associative arrays. Paired with the built-in action library, full mathematical evaluation and Boolean expressions, there is simply nothing you can’t achieve. We’ve also built in an Action Wizard so even complete novices can create powerful projects that handle the most demanding tasks.

Comprehensive Action Library
We’ve included a library of more than 640 powerful yet easy to use actions. There are high-level actions to handle everything from text file editing to system registry changes. You can execute programs, open documents, query drive information, manipulate strings, copy files, enumerate processes, interact with web scripts, display dialog boxes and much more.

Easy to Use Action Wizard
You don’t have to be a wizard to create incredible multimedia applications. We’ve built the wizard into the software! Simply choose the action you want from a categorized list (complete with on-screen interactive help), fill in the requested information fields and the wizard does the rest. You don’t have to know anything about scripting or programming – just fill in the blanks, and you’re done! Making changes is just as easy. Click on the line you want to change and press the “edit” button to go back to the original form. It’s that easy!

Expandable with Action Plugins
Add on modules can extend your projects in infinitely powerful ways, such as adding support for databases, FTP file transfers and CD audio playback. Tight integration with the design environment makes plugins just as easy to use as built-in actions. Plugins are available through Indigo Rose as well as third-party developers thanks to Indigo Rose’s freely available plug-in development kit.

Trusted by Professionals
Thousands of companies trust Indigo Rose software tools. In fact our products, such as AutoPlay Media Studio, Setup Factory, TrueUpdate and Visual Patch are used to create, distribute and manage software on millions of customer and client systems around the world. You can trust the people who invented the visual autorun CD development environment to stand by our products with world-class support!

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