Windows API: Creating shortcuts on the desktop
2001-08-01 -- Craig E Ransom
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Hi all.
I hope this is simple (though it seems not to be :) :
Using C5bPE how do I from within my homemade installation program create a
shortcut to my app on the users desktop?
Short questions should yield short answers, right? ;)
Hi Niels!
Short questions should yield short answers, right? ;)
Short answer. You can try this. It's all C/C++. :(
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/psdk/shellcc/shell/Shortcut.htm
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Message 3 in thread
From: Alexey Solovjev (clarion@also.spb.ru)
Subject: Re: Creating a shortcut programmatically.
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Date: 2001-01-08 04:45:34 PST
PROGRAM
DWORD EQUATE(LONG)
WORD EQUATE(USHORT)
HRESULT EQUATE(LONG)
HWND EQUATE(UNSIGNED)
UINT EQUATE(UNSIGNED)
OLESTRING EQUATE(BSTRING)
!OLESTRING EQUATE(CSTRING)
! OLE Types ====================================================================
GUID GROUP,TYPE
Data1 DWORD
Data2 WORD
Data3 WORD
Data4 STRING(8)
END
IID GROUP(GUID),TYPE
END
CLSID GROUP(GUID),TYPE
END
OBJECTID GROUP(GUID),TYPE
Uniquifier ULONG
END
SHITEMID GROUP,TYPE
cb USHORT
ID BYTE,DIM(1)
END
ITEMIDLIST GROUP,TYPE
mkid LIKE(SHITEMID)
END
ITEMIZE,PRE(CLSCTX)
INPROC_SERVER EQUATE(1)
INPROC_HANDLER EQUATE(2)
LOCAL_SERVER EQUATE(4)
INPROC_SERVER16 EQUATE(8)
END
ITEMIZE,PRE(CSIDL)
DESKTOP EQUATE(0)
PROGRAMS EQUATE(2)
CONTROLS EQUATE(3)
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Message 4 in thread
From: Craig E Ransom (dataferret@pcferret.com)
Subject: Re: Creating a shortcut programmatically.
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Date: 2001-01-08 07:15:13 PST
Hi Alexey!
> See attachment. The plain CW code.
>
Ah-HAH! I THOUGHT I'd seen something like this but couldn't find the
message!
This is the part that needs to be modified, I guess, to set the
correct values:
> ShortCutInfo.TargetFile = 'W:\TESTS\_026\CALLOLE.EXE'
> ShortCutInfo.IconName = 'O:\NT4\COOL.DLL'
> ShortCutInfo.IconIndex = 17
> ShortCutInfo.Description = 'Description for this program shortcut'
> ShortCutInfo.HotKey = 0
> ShortCutInfo.StartIn = 'W:\TESTS\_026\'
> ShortCutInfo.ShortCut = 'This Program.LNK<0>'
>
N.B. it will still behoove the developer to check out the link I
provided, to understand what each item is.
BTW, I noticed:
IOLE INTERFACE,COM
COM as an attribute for INTERFACE is not documented in either C5b or
C5.5, but I was able to compile this in C5b as well as C5.5. Does this
imply that INTERFACE with the COM attribute is native Clarion for
doing COM objects? Or does COM mean something else in this context?
Thanks again! (You are such a wonderful source of information!)
-- Craig (The Data Ferret)
http://www.pcferret.com/ for RARS, NetClip
http://www.pcferret.com/teletools.html for Telephony
http://www.pcferret.com/gps.html for GPS!
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Message 5 in thread
From: Alexey Solovjev (clarion@also.spb.ru)
Subject: Re: Creating a shortcut programmatically.
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Date: 2001-01-08 07:59:37 PST
Hello,
> From: Craig E Ransom
> Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 10:10:19 EST
> COM as an attribute for INTERFACE is not documented in either C5b or
> C5.5, but I was able to compile this in C5b as well as C5.5. Does this
> imply that INTERFACE with the COM attribute is native Clarion for
> doing COM objects? Or does COM mean something else in this context?
COM implies the PASCAL calling convention for all methods in the
INTERFACE.
Alexey Solovjev
E-mail: clarion@also.spb.ru
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From: Randy Goodhew (rgoodhew@fuse.net)
Subject: Re: Creating a shortcut programmatically.
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Date: 2001-01-08 11:02:40 PST
Also:
What about the undocumented data types: BSTRING and VARIANT?
Do they now work as expected?
Many thanks...
Alexey Solovjev wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> > From: Craig E Ransom
> > Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 10:10:19 EST
> > COM as an attribute for INTERFACE is not documented in either C5b or
> > C5.5, but I was able to compile this in C5b as well as C5.5. Does this
> > imply that INTERFACE with the COM attribute is native Clarion for
> > doing COM objects? Or does COM mean something else in this context?
>
> COM implies the PASCAL calling convention for all methods in the
> INTERFACE.
>
> Alexey Solovjev
>
> E-mail: clarion@also.spb.ru
--
Randy Goodhew
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Message 7 in thread
From: Niels H. K. Thomsen (NikoDemus@vip.cybercity.dk)
Subject: Re: Creating a shortcut programmatically.
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Date: 2001-01-09 03:18:34 PST
Could I see the rest of the code, please?
Feel free to send the source to me by e-mail, if this is preferred.
Thanks in advance. Best regards, Niels.
Craig E Ransom skrev i meddelelsen ...
>Hi Alexey!
>
>> See attachment. The plain CW code.
>>
>Ah-HAH! I THOUGHT I'd seen something like this but couldn't find the
>message!
>
>This is the part that needs to be modified, I guess, to set the
>correct values:
>
>> ShortCutInfo.TargetFile = 'W:\TESTS\_026\CALLOLE.EXE'
>> ShortCutInfo.IconName = 'O:\NT4\COOL.DLL'
>> ShortCutInfo.IconIndex = 17
>> ShortCutInfo.Description = 'Description for this program shortcut'
>> ShortCutInfo.HotKey = 0
>> ShortCutInfo.StartIn = 'W:\TESTS\_026\'
>> ShortCutInfo.ShortCut = 'This Program.LNK<0>'
>>
>
>N.B. it will still behoove the developer to check out the link I
>provided, to understand what each item is.
>
>BTW, I noticed:
>
>IOLE INTERFACE,COM
>
>COM as an attribute for INTERFACE is not documented in either C5b or
>C5.5, but I was able to compile this in C5b as well as C5.5. Does this
>imply that INTERFACE with the COM attribute is native Clarion for
>doing COM objects? Or does COM mean something else in this context?
>
>Thanks again! (You are such a wonderful source of information!)
>
>-- Craig (The Data Ferret)
>http://www.pcferret.com/ for RARS, NetClip
>http://www.pcferret.com/teletools.html for Telephony
>http://www.pcferret.com/gps.html for GPS!
>Virtual Access 5.50 build 311 Win98
>http://counter.li.org ID #184149
>"Do not meddle in the affairs of FERRETS..."
>
Message 8 in thread
From: Craig E Ransom (dataferret@pcferret.com)
Subject: Re: Creating a shortcut programmatically.
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Date: 2001-01-09 06:34:33 PST
Hi Niels!
> Could I see the rest of the code, please?
>
> Feel free to send the source to me by e-mail, if this is preferred.
>
The rest of it is in Alexey's message in this thread dated 08 Jan
2001 15:43:55 +0300. As he contributed it, I do not feel comfortable
posting or emailing it without his express permission.
-- Craig (The Data Ferret)
http://www.pcferret.com/ for RARS, NetClip
http://www.pcferret.com/teletools.html for Telephony
http://www.pcferret.com/gps.html for GPS!
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Message 9 in thread
From: Craig E Ransom (dataferret@pcferret.com)
Subject: Re: Creating a shortcut programmatically.
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Date: 2001-01-08 07:28:56 PST
Hi Alexey!
WOW! This little fellow works - in C5b!
Change these lines to put the Windows Calculator on your
desktop:
ShortCutInfo.TargetFile = 'C:\WINDOWS\CALC.EXE'
ShortCutInfo.IconName = 'C:\WINDOWS\CALC.EXE'
ShortCutInfo.IconIndex = 0
ShortCutInfo.Description = 'Calculator, natch!'
ShortCutInfo.HotKey = 0
ShortCutInfo.StartIn = 'C:\WINDOWS'
ShortCutInfo.ShortCut = 'Calculator.LNK<0>'
KEWEL!
-- Craig (The Data Ferret)
http://www.pcferret.com/ for RARS, NetClip
http://www.pcferret.com/teletools.html for Telephony
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Message 10 in thread
From: Craig E Ransom (dataferret@pcferret.com)
Subject: Re: Creating a shortcut programmatically.
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Date: 2001-01-09 09:03:30 PST
Hi Alexey!
> See attachment. The plain CW code.
>
i have been looking at this and reading the Clarion documentation (such as it is)
I have a question concerning what is happening.
For instance, I understand what the IOLE portion does, I think.
However, to use one of the small ones:
> IPersist INTERFACE(IOLE),COM
>
> GetClassID PROCEDURE (*CLSID pClassID),HRESULT,RAW
> END
>
I thought that INTERFACE required a Clarion CLASS with IMPLEMENTS(InterfaceName),
but I see no CLASS definition for IPersist, but I DO see the GetClassID which _is_
a method in the Microsoft Windows COM interface for their IPersist class. From the
Platform SDK entry: "The IPersist interface defines the single method GetClassID,
which is designed to supply the CLSID of an object that can be stored persistently
in the system."
Which is what you are doing.
Does INTERFACE therefore give us the capability of creating "Clarion INTERFACE" to
ANY such Windows Platform SDK class and its methods, without further definition?
Could I use this to access a third-party COM DLL that implements the IClassFactory
or IClassFactory2 interface, to create and manipulate objects for that COM DLL?
-- Craig (The Data Ferret)
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