| Forum List • Thread List • Refresh • New Topic • Search • Previous • Next 1 | 1. Application setup #979 Posted by: cajino 2003-06-09 17:24:33 | Hi everybody. I need a small installer for my RQ applications, to perform a few tasks: - Create a directory - Copy the .exe and possible other files in said dir - Create a shortcut on the desktop and/or start menu
Is there something of the kind already? | 2. Re: Application setup #980 Posted by: 2003-06-09 18:01:38 | I use "Inno Setup" ... because it's free and easy ! http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php But there must be many others probably much better !
Jacques | 3. Re: Application setup #981 | The first 2 task is quite easy in RQ, the problem is the third one. There seems no direct win api calls to create shortcut (.lnk). I found a good alternative approach written in VB, looks very easy to convert to RQ:
http://www.mvps.org/vbnet/index.html?code/shell/shshortcutcheat.htm
If you converted, please kindly share it to others by uploading here: http://g.yi.org/_scripts/file.php?f=76&r=2330 | 4. Re: Application setup #985 Posted by: cajino 2003-06-10 18:02:11 | Sorry Guidance I spent a good part of the night trying to come to terms with those darn API but got nothing good out of it. I guess I'll have to study some more... Anyway, I tried Inno Setup, and it's really good. Bye
Cajino | 5. Re: Application setup #988 Posted by: 2003-06-11 23:15:10 |
Creating a Shortcut is very easy, just find STKIT432.DLL which is part of VB ... I guess
Here is a Example creating a shortcut to the calculator on, the desktop.
I would trade this for an example shwing how to link a Extension to a software. IE linking .BAS, .INC .RQB to one of my Executables
' ----- Begin ----- ' CREATES A SHORTCUT by Jacques Philippe, June 2003 ' $ESCAPECHARS ON $TYPECHECK ON $INCLUDE "RAPIDQ.INC" ' Declare Function fCreateShellLink Lib "STKIT432.DLL" ALIAS "fCreateShellLink"(ByVal _ lpstrFolderName As String, ByVal lpstrLinkName As String, ByVal _ lpstrLinkPath As String, ByVal lpstrLinkArgs As String) As Long ' DefInt lReturn
'Add to Desktop DefStr addTo, addName, addWhat, nullString nullString = ""
'Add to Desktop addTo = "..\\..\\Bureau" ' "Bureau" is the french word for "Desktop" addName = "Shortcut to Calculator" addWhat = "c:\\Windows\\Calc.exe" nullString = "" ' ' BOTH LINES WORK WITHOUT CHANGING THE API ARGUMENT ' 'lReturn = fCreateShellLink( "..\\..\\Bureau", "Shortcut to Calculator", "c:\\Windows\\calc.exe", "") lReturn = fCreateShellLink(addTo, addName, addWhat, nullString) ' Print "Result : 1=OK/ 0=FAILURE, fCreatreShellLink_Return=";Str$(lReturn) ' ' ------------------------------------------------------------- ' EXIT CONSOLE ' ------------ DefStr sExit Input "nn CR to QUIT nn", sExit Application.Terminate End ' ----- END ------
Short enough :)
Jacques | 6. Linking file extensions to a program #993 Posted by: 2003-06-12 23:40:55 | To be able to click on a file in Explorer and have a program load that file and run you can do the following:
Include 'OnShow = Init' in your Form CREATE code and then use something like:
SUB Init IF CommandCount = 2 THEN FileName = Command$(2) FileStream.Open(FileName, Mode) ' Set up parameters that are normally done manually ' Process the file as normally done manually END IF END SUB
The program will then open with the file loaded and processed as required.
This assumes that you have associated the file extension from the 'View | Folder Options | File Types' menu in Explorer or from 'Open with' in the context menu. | Forum List • Thread List • Refresh • New Topic • Search • Previous • Next 1 |
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