icons of shortcuts - NSIS Forums

obj63
21st July 2003 19:52 UTC

icons of shortcuts
How do you change the name of the short cut on the start menu and how do you change the icon so once the program is installed it shows that. My shortcut is for space.exe and I want it to say "The Space Game" instead of just "space" and I want to change the icon.

Thanks again for all help

Joe

Afrow UK
21st July 2003 21:21 UTC

See CreateShortcut in the NSIS manual.
Also, look in the Examples\MakeNSIS.nsi script for good examples of CreateShortcut usage.

-Stu

Gunny2k2
21st July 2003 21:25 UTC

Section "Start Menu Shortcuts"
CreateDirectory "$SMPROGRAMS\${MUI_PRODUCT}"
CreateShortCut "$SMPROGRAMS\${MUI_PRODUCT}\The Space Game.lnk" "$INSTDIR\space.exe" "" "$INSTDIR\space.exe" 0
SectionEnd

that should do it :D

Afrow UK
21st July 2003 21:28 UTC

Please use code paremeters around your scripts like so:


Section "Start Menu Shortcuts"
CreateDirectory "$SMPROGRAMS\${MUI_PRODUCT}"
CreateShortCut "$SMPROGRAMS\${MUI_PRODUCT}\The Space Game.lnk" "$INSTDIR\space.exe" "" "[path to icon]" 0
SectionEnd

It just prevents long strings being forced onto a new line.

-Stu