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Does setup wizard create an icon
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06/07/1999 21:15:17
 
 
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06/07/1999 18:17:23
Randy Hooper
Ranco Business Software
Tampa, Florida, United States
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Forms & Form designer
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00237923
Message ID:
00238056
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>>>Does setup wizard create an icon on the desktop automatically, like alot of professional apps do?
>>
>>No, but you can write a post-setup executable to do it, either using George Tasker's LNKFILES.DLL (downloadable from UT) or using rthe Wscript.Shell automation object that's a part of the Windows Scripting Host.
>>
>>>This would be convienent.
>
>Ed,
>I have been playing around with the WHS and my question is after I have made my script file it has a ext of .VBS in the setup wizard post-setup executable how do I call my script that I have made.
>

There's no need to create a VBScript to do it; once the scripting host is installed, you can instantiate the Wscript.Shell object within VFP itself, and access the SpecialFolders collection to find the Desktop, and access the CreateShortcut method to create or modify a shortcut on the desktop in that fashion.

If you wanted to invoke your script, you'd fire it by invoking WSCRIPT.EXE or CSCRIPT.EXE with the name of the .VBS script you created.
>Thanks Randy
EMail: EdR@edrauh.com
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