Re: Shortcut name

[Charlie Fiskeaux II]

I've never heard of doing that, and I would guess it's not possible to 
find out the name of the shortcut that launched a program (although I 
could be wrong).  One way to do something similar, though is to use the 
commandLine.  For the application path in your shortcut, put any 
arguments you want to pass to your app after the executable's name, like 
"C:\my directory\my app.exe myArg1" (or you may have to put them in a 
separate pair of quotation marks, I'm not sure which), then once your 
app launches, you can read those arguments by accessing "the commandLine".

Tom van Gemert wrote:

Hi,

I have a director movie, somewhere on the users system, that is a 
projector. To start this projector I created
a desktop shortcut (windows). Now my question is, does somebody know 
if it is posible to read the name ('somefile.lnk')
of the shortcut when the projector is opened (so that it is a lingo 
variable)? By doing this I could set a variable based on the
shortcut's name, which I would like to use to customize the 
presentation which is started by the projector.

any clues on how to do this??
Thanks.


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Charlie Fiskeaux II
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