ActiveX confusion

KarterJK · Jul 28, 2004

I am a little confusd on ActiveX usage
I have a Linux and a windows Server
The windows server does not support IIS

This following code is supposed to add a
desktop icon shortcut link to my site

CODE:

<html>
<head>
<title><title>
<script language="JavaScript">
function fnGo()
{

var WshShell = new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell");
strDesktop = WshShell.SpecialFolders("Desktop");
var oShellLink = WshShell.CreateShortcut(strDesktop + "\\RJO Player.lnk");
oShellLink.TargetPath = "

http://www.mysite.com/the_program.php";

oShellLink.WindowStyle = 1;
oShellLink.IconLocation = "

http://www.mysite.com/images/site_icon_ico,

0";
oShellLink.Hotkey = "";
oShellLink.Description = "Site Description";
oShellLink.WorkingDirectory = strDesktop;
oShellLink.Save();
}
</script>
</head>

<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#804040" link="#008080" vlink="#008080" alink="#008080">
<a href="#" onclick="fnGo();">add desktop icon</a>

</body>

</html>

END CODE

While it works great when I test locally... when I move it on to the sites it does nothing.

What is needed on the servers to make it functional

Thanks ahead of time to anyone

jemminger · Jul 28, 2004

nothing is needed on the server...your browser security settings might be preventing it though. try adding the site as a "trusted site" in Internet Options > Security

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-jeff

http://www.jeffemminger.com

try { succeed(); } catch(E) { tryAgain(); } finally { rtfm(); }

tsuji · Jul 28, 2004

Hello KarterJK,

Hope you had not introduced the typos when moving to site:
[tt]<title><[COLOR=red yellow]/[/color]title>[/tt]

regards - tsuji

tsuji · Jul 28, 2004

-Further notes-

Also would it not be better to make it a UrlLink rather. A ShellLink would bring up an error when processing it.

Code:

function fnGo()
{
var WshShell = new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell");
strDesktop = WshShell.SpecialFolders("Desktop");
var oUrlLink = WshShell.CreateShortcut(strDesktop + "\\RJO Player.url");
oUrlLink.TargetPath = "[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.mysite.com/the_program.php";[/URL]
oUrlLink.Save();
}

- tsuji

KarterJK · Jul 29, 2004

Thank you all for the replies

the </title> was only a typo on the post

and Tsuji your script is far more reliable
and the security was set to high, after changing this it worked without error every time..

I am now beginning to understand a bit more about ActiveX

Again thanks to all of you

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ActiveX confusion

KarterJK

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