With a registered version, you can disable the NAG screen of menus created with unregistered version or change it to your favorite images in project options dialog.
You should set a password for your project so that others can not modify or copy it.
You can select controls and press arrow keys to move them pixel by pixel.
You can select controls and press SHIFT and arrow keys to resize them pixel by pixel.
You can check the "Create Compressed Data Files" option to reduce file size.
If there are lots of compressed data in the menu, such as MP3/Ogg background music, you'd better not check the "Create Compressed Data Files", or it will take much more time to launch the menu.
You can check the "Create Stand-alone Executable Files" so that you can distribute autorun.exe without autorun.apm beside it.
You can compress autorun.exe with an exe-packer with overlay support such as UPX to reduce file size.
You can create an about box with the "Show Picture" action.
You can use animated GIF images as splash screen and end screen.
Select more than one controls of the same type, you can edit their properties together.
You can group controls so that they are selected and moved together.
You can lock controls so that they can not be moved or resized.
Common mouse sounds of action controls stored only one copy in the data file, it is helpful to reduce file size if all action controls are set with the same mouse sounds.
With the utility Virtual Drive Manager, you can create virtual drives - maps of the contents of folders.
The %CDROM% macro is not the cd root actually, it is the directory where menu (autorun.exe) is in, so it is the cd root by default.
The "Exit && Eject CD" action causes Windows to complain that there is no disc in the drive sometimes, so it is not recommended to use this action.
While the "Use System Message Box" option in project options dialog is checked, the "Popup Message" action use the default message box to popup messages.
You can drag a file from the gallery window and assign it to the control under the mouse cursor, or create a new control while dropping it over the main window.
You can double click a file in the gallery and assign it to selected controls.
You can restore you menu data file autorun.apm from the stand-alone executable file autorun.exe with the utility Stand-alone 2 Data File Convertor.
You can press F1 to get help information of selected controls and active dialogs.
Press SHIFT while selecting a control type in the control palette, it doesn't released after creating a new control, so that you can create many controls of the same type.
You can create a control by double clicking the button in the control palette.
In F.A.Q section of the help file, you can find many frequently asked questions.
Module files (*.xm; *.it; *.mod; *.s3m) are small but sound good, they are more suitable for background music than other file formats.
You can always get information about the latest version by clicking the "Check for Update" menu item.
You can use compressed images such as JPEG and PNG files instead of bitmaps for smaller file size.
Shape control can be used to display images, and it uses much less resource than Image control.
Enter "\n" (without quotes) in caption property of Hot Label, Button && Cool Button controls, you can create multi-line caption.
Enter "&&" (without quotes) before a character in caption property of Hot Label, Button && Cool Button controls to identify a shortcut key with underline effect.
You can hide border and scroll bars of web browser controls with the following css style in HTML files.<br><br><body style="border:none;overflow-x:hidden;overflow-y:hidden">
You can use ISO Image Creator to create a standard iso9660 disc image.
Use the following command line to launch another menu with "Run Program" action.<br><br>autorun.exe [menufile.apm] [-p pagename]