Desktop Icons

ripwon

07-05-2002, 02:47 AM

I have packaged my app using the Package and Deployment wizard.. When my app is installed the icon for it will be located under Start-Programs etc etc...

Is it possible for the P+D wizard to install an icon for my application directly onto the users desktop ???

Flyguy

07-05-2002, 03:39 AM

Nope, the P&DW doesn't support this feature.

Banjo

07-06-2002, 04:23 PM

But you can modify the P&DW source in order to support it.

Thinker

07-07-2002, 10:18 AM

Originally posted by Banjo
But you can modify the P&DW source in order to support it.
I don't know if you have ever really looked through that code, but
it is a huge, convoluted project that I would have to be desperate
before I would try to modify it. (What I mean by desperate is
that I couldn't find any other packager/installer that would do
what I needed.) Still, it isn't impossible.

Medic

08-16-2002, 03:04 PM

Thinker! I Agree with you! I started messing with that and quickly decided to go third party. I use innosetup and a setup.lst file converter that I found on the web. (www.a2zhelp.com/kalptaru/vb2script.htm) It supports desktop shortcuts, as well as other cool stuff, like license agreements, links to web sites, etc. and it's FREE!