[REBOL] Re: creating a shortcut
From: bry:itnisk at: 29-Oct-2003 17:42
MK> How can I drive the scripting host then? I am a real Windows
nitwit....
MK> (and now you see why I asked you offline what I asked you, being our
MK> Windows hero ;-) )
You probably shouldn't call Wscript in something you're intending to
give to customers, two issues could be:
1. Wscript turned off, for security reasons, by administrators.
2. older versions of Wscript different from what you're using.
Of course number two can be a problem in any windows scenario. But I
figure the problem is probably worsened the higher up the tool is you're
using.
I would have answered this earlier but I was sick the last two days and
forgot:
What you want to do is to make a desktop shortcut correct? If so you
might want to consider making what is known as a Shell Instance Object,
Here's an overview of these:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwui/h
tml/shellinstobj.asp
And here is an example that goes ahead and makes a shortcut to Notepad,
and prompts you with a message when you try to remove it:
http://www.cheztabor.com/dtshortcut/
since this is all done through the registry you should be able to handle
it from rebol/view pro and higher I think (isn't there a registry
dialect out there somewhere?)
