duffboy_ca
7th January 2009 20:08 UTC

MS Access command line switch in the CreateShortcut
Hello,

I am fairly new to NSIS, as I have only done simple install programs. I have searched for many hours now (on the Wiki, the web, and this forum) and have not been able to find an answer.

When I have my line of code:
CreateShortCut "$DESKTOP\IOA 2K7.lnk" '"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\MSACCESS.EXE" "$INSTDIR\IOACODE.mdb" /Wrkgrp "V:\IOASEC.mdw"'
the slash '/' character for the workgroup command line switch is changed to a backslash '\'.

I have tried a many combinations ('/\', '//','\/', etc.) and it seems that I cannot find a way to get the proper slash to appear in the string.

Any help with this issue would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Duffy

Anders
7th January 2009 20:24 UTC

the parameters should not be a part of the exepath, it has its own argument: CreateShortCut link.lnk target.file [parameters [icon.file [icon_index_number [start_options [keyboard_shortcut [description]]]]]]

duffboy_ca
7th January 2009 22:10 UTC

Anders,

Thank you for the quick reply.

Are you saying that I should put the workgroup switch and appropriate mdb file link that I want Access to open in another spot in the CreateShortCut syntax?

I am very confused, sorry. If someone were able to talk me through how to open an Access mdb with MS Access using the workgroup command line switch that would be helpful.

The command line which would normally be in a shortcut setup to do this is:
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\MSACCESS.EXE" "C:\Program Files\IOA\IOACODE.mdb" /Wrkgrp "V:\IOASEC.mdw"
where the IOACODE.mdb file is being opened by MS Access with the IOASEC.mdw being the workgroup permissions file.

Thanks again for any help.

Duffy

Anders
7th January 2009 22:27 UTC

um, yes, did I not already say that?

the format should be:
CreateShortcut "c:\some\path\hello.lnk" '"$instdir\myapp.exe"' '/param1 "c:\some\path" /param3'

duffboy_ca
7th January 2009 22:30 UTC

Great. Thanks a lot. I was getting confused on where string broke. I got it sorted, thank you very much.