Setup wizard and desktop icons?

[jras]

How do I get a desktop icon to be placed from the VFP setup wizard? I get the program group, but no desktop icon. Is that not possible from the setup wizard? And if not, is there someway to do it using the "post-setup executable" on the setup options step of the setup wizard?

Thanks. [sig][/sig]

 

[JDurbin]

I'm sure you can do it with WSH Windows Scripting Host. Perhaps one of the guys has a tip. Not a bad question for the tip section. [sig]<p>John Durbin<br><a href=mailto: john@johndurbin.com> john@johndurbin.com</a><br>MCP Visual FoxPro<br>
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[BlindPete]

I don't think the setup Wizard will do that for you. I investigated w/o success a couple of years ago. Ultimately I used install Shield instead. [sig]<p> Pete<br><a href=mailto:blindpete@mail.com>blindpete@mail.com</a><br><a href= > </a><br>What your mother told you is true! You will go blind! (from moonshine anyway)[/sig]

 

[ChrisRChamberlain]

jras

I did download an article on this subject a short while ago, printed a hard copy, have subsequently lost the hard copy and thus the source of the article. (Going well, isn't it?)

There was a reference to VB in it, that I do remember, and it may have come from the Microsoft Knowledge base.

I searched earlier without success but these clues may hopefully jog someone's memory

Chris

[sig][/sig]

 

[ChrisRChamberlain]

jras

Managed to remember where the article was.

Q238553 - SAMPLE: VFPSCUT.EXE Creates Desktop Shortcut to a VFP Application at

http://search.support.microsoft.com...ut))+and+(@Kbarea+ssafe+or+odbc+or+foxpro)&H=

Chris [sig][/sig]

 

[TomasDill]

Correct link:

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q238/5/53.ASP

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http://www.softserve.lviv.ua>Soft

Serve</a><br>The professional level of programmer could be determined by level of stupidity of his/her bugs[/sig]

 

[JDurbin]

Also see the latest(?) VFUG newsletter and article by George Tasker and Ed Rauch which addresses this very task in a WSH series. If you're not a member of VFUG it's free and painless.

http://www.vfug.org

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