Windows Shortcuts

[Mehr, Assaph (Assaph)]

Hi All,

Does anyone know how to programmatically create windows shortcuts (.lnk
files) using Ruby?
Have been googling for a couple of days without much luck.


Cheers,
Assaph

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[Chris Morris]

Hi All,

Does anyone know how to programmatically create windows shortcuts (.lnk
files) using Ruby?
Have been googling for a couple of days without much luck.

This is a method that depends on the Windows Scripting Host being
installed, which it is by default on 2k and XP, I believe ... possibly
others, but I don't know for sure.

def create_shortcut(targetFileName, linkName)
shell = WIN32OLE.new("WScript.Shell")
scut = shell.CreateShortcut(linkName + '.lnk')
scut.TargetPath = File.expand_path(targetFileName)
scut.Save
scut
end

The method returns the scut instance because there are other things you
can do with it that this default method glosses over. This method is
apart of my anemic clUtil lib (BSD license) you can get here:
http://www.clabs.org/dl/clutil/ (see also http://www.clabs.org/ruby.htm).

 

[Shashank Date]

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Hi Assaph,

How about this?

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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