Desktop Shortcut VB5

[santiagotor]

How do I make a Shortcut of my program to the desktop?


Thanks
Santiago Torres

[peet]

Normally you do that when you distribute your app.
Its done by the installation program that you use.

could you be more specific ?

[santiagotor]

I am using the instalation program that came with VB5.
Do I just copy a shortcut to the files included in my app and as destination $desktop$?
or
how do I tell the instalation program to creat a short cut in the desktop?

[peet]

oh.. I see.. sorry, I'v never used that setup program. I always used Wise.

Have you tried what you suggested yourself?

[peet]

btw, from what I can remember, the 'Setup program' that came with vb5 was not too good... ??

you could always use Inno Setup , which is free, and can do proper setups.

[veryjonny]

Not very sure you need this but just in case, you can make a shortcut through your code. Place it in the runonce reg.
Add a refernce to windows scripting host.
Here's the code:

DesktopPath = oShell.SpecialFolders("AllUsersDesktop")
Set MyShortcut = oShell.CreateShortcut(DesktopPath  "\MyApp.lnk")  ' Set shortcut object properties and save it
mPath = App.path & "\" & app.EXEName 
MyShortcut.TargetPath = mPath
MyShortcut.WorkingDirectory = App.Path
MyShortcut.Save