) on the toolbar.User's Guide - Projects
AutoPlay Media Studio's preview feature makes it easy to take a quick look at how your application will look and operate while you are still designing it. You can preview your application at any time by selecting Preview from the Project menu.
You can also preview the project by pressing the F5
key or by clicking on the Preview button
( ) on the toolbar.
When you preview the project, your application is actually built to your temporary folder (as specified on the Folders page of the Preferences dialog) and then run from that location. The temporary files created during preview are deleted when AutoPlay Media Studio is closed down.
Although the actual AutoPlay executable gets generated in the temporary folder, your application will act as though it was launched from your Distribution folder. This means that AutoPlay uses the path to your Distribution folder in place of the built-in variable %SrcDir% throughout your project.
For example, if your Distribution folder is set to C:\Projects\My Project\Distribution and you reference a file from %SrcDir%\Program.exe in your project, during a preview that file will be looked for at C:\Projects\My Project\Distribution\Program.exe.
In other words, even though the AutoPlay executable isn't actually built into the Distribution when you preview, it acts just like it would if it was.
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