From: Shashank Date <sdate@...>
Date: 2004-08-04T11:01:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Windows Shortcuts

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Hi Assaph,

How about this?

"Mehr, Assaph (Assaph)" <assaph@avaya.com> wrote in message
> Does anyone know how to programmatically create windows shortcuts (.lnk
> files) using Ruby?

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require 'win32ole'

shell = WIN32OLE.new("WScript.Shell")

# Desktop shortcut
strDesktop = shell.SpecialFolders("Desktop")
oShellLink = shell.CreateShortcut(strDesktop + "\\Shortcut Script.lnk")
oShellLink.TargetPath = "c:\\atest\\tst_shortcut.rb" #WScript.ScriptFullName
oShellLink.WindowStyle = 1
oShellLink.Hotkey = "CTRL+SHIFT+F"
oShellLink.IconLocation = "notepad.exe, 0"
oShellLink.Description = "Shortcut Script"
oShellLink.WorkingDirectory = strDesktop
oShellLink.Save

# URL shortcut
oUrlLink = shell.CreateShortcut(strDesktop + "\\Rubyforge.url")
oUrlLink.TargetPath = "http://rubyforge.org/"
oUrlLink.Save

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