Hi George

I should have said the amount of comment that is displayed:)
The comment is concatenated when it is not selected and I dont want them having to click on a lot of icons to find what they want.

My rant about long file names was more directed to the display in windows explorer, I have always wanted there to be a comment field that can be attached to a file:)

I could group all the app shortcuts into a folder of their own on the desktop and change the view of the folder to list view and get something close to the desired effect. Trouble is if I write a paragraph about the app then the shortcut name would need to wrap. I also would want to stop the users changing it back to Icon view again.



>>One of our departments now has so many of my programs that they forget which is which.
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>>These apps run in a variety of versions from FP DOS through to VFP 7.00
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>>The ideal solution would have been if Windows supported a decent sized comment for each icon. This would have been far more useful than ridiculously long file names (what planet are they on)
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>>The size of the comment they provide for icons at present is pitiful.
>>I wopuld like to provide a paragraph on each app if possible.
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>>I can think of 2 possible solutions at present.
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>>1. Use a page of HTML to launch these apps.
>>This has the advantage of being very lightweight and I can run it anywhere without having to do an install.
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>>2. Write a Frontend in VFP that launches an app then clears itself out of memory. (this solution would require me to do an install on each machine requiring it if the VFP 7 runtimes where not on it already)
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>>Since I dont want to reinvent the wheel:)
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>>Has anyone already done this?
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>>Please steer me towards some nice code or a nice page of HTML I can hack:)
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>Mark,
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>I know of no limit to the description of a short cut icon, or are you talking about something else?