Actions

Actions are specialized commands that your AutoPlay application can perform at run time. Each action is a discrete instruction that tells the application to do something—whether it's to hide an object, jump to another page, open an external document, or modify a Registry key.

Actions are always triggered by events. Every possible event in an AutoPlay application has a separate list of actions, known as the event's action list. When an event is triggered, the actions on the corresponding action list are performed in sequence, like lines in a program.

There are more than 150 different actions at your disposal. See the Alphabetical or Categorical list of actions for a complete list:

Alphabetical List of Actions
Categorical List of Actions

What if an action runs into trouble?

Sometimes actions can fail for reasons that are beyond your control. For example, the MP3 you're trying to load could have been deleted by the user. In these cases, you want your AutoPlay application to react in an appropriate way. You can control how your application responds to error situations by changing the settings on the On Error tab for each action. Or, if you prefer, you can handle the errors yourself by setting up custom error handling routines.