Creating Windows Shortcut

Thomas McGrath III 3mcgrath at adelphia.net
Thu Feb 12 11:04:33 EST 2004


Now this is very 
cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How would you do this on the Mac too.?

Thanks

Tom
On Feb 12, 2004, at 10:50 AM, Klaus Major wrote:

>
>> How do you create a Windows Start menu item from within Revolution? I 
>> can
>> copy my files from the CD to the users hard drive but now I need to 
>> create a
>> Start menu item and optionally a desktop shortcut. Can this be done 
>> from
>> within Rev?
>
> Yes :-)
>
> ...
>    create alias (specialfolderpath("start") & "/" & "Name of 
> Alias.lnk") to file "path to original app..."
> ...
>
> !! Dont forget the suffix *.lnk (link) for the alias!!!

Thomas J. McGrath III
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