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bkolt
3rd January 2002 13:02 UTC

Desktop Shotcuts
Please forgive my ignorance, especially if this is a really stupid question.

How do I conditionally create desktop shortcuts for an installed application?

Thanks,
Ben

kichik
3rd January 2002 14:15 UTC

Hi!

To create a shortcut on the desktop you should use:

CreateShortCut "$DESKTOP\myApp.lnk" "$INSTDIR\myApp.exe"

If you want it to be conditional write:

StrCmp $1 "create shortcut" 0 dontCreate
    CreateShortCut "$DESKTOP\myApp.lnk" "$INSTDIR\myApp.exe"
dontCreate:

You could have understood all of the above from the documentation.

KiCHiK

bkolt
3rd January 2002 14:58 UTC

Thanks, I was looking for the right thing, but the syntax I was using to look was wrong.
This is exactly what I needed.

Ben