Re: Create Windows "shortcut" (.lnk) with D?

2016-03-07 Thread Andrea Fontana via Digitalmars-d-learn 

On Sunday, 6 March 2016 at 20:13:39 UTC, 岩倉 澪 wrote:

On Sunday, 6 March 2016 at 11:00:35 UTC, John wrote:

On Sunday, 6 March 2016 at 03:13:23 UTC, 岩倉 澪 wrote:

IShellLinkA* shellLink;
IPersistFile* linkFile;

Any help would be highly appreciated as I'm new to Windows 
programming in D and have no idea what I'm doing wrong!


In D, interfaces are references, so it should be:

  IShellLinkA shellLink;
  IPersistFile linkFile;


That's exactly what the problem was, thank you!!


You can use official specs to recreate binary file:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd871305.aspx

Ok, not the fastest way. :)

Re: Create Windows "shortcut" (.lnk) with D?

2016-03-06 Thread 岩倉 澪 via Digitalmars-d-learn 

On Sunday, 6 March 2016 at 11:00:35 UTC, John wrote:

On Sunday, 6 March 2016 at 03:13:23 UTC, 岩倉 澪 wrote:

IShellLinkA* shellLink;
IPersistFile* linkFile;

Any help would be highly appreciated as I'm new to Windows 
programming in D and have no idea what I'm doing wrong!


In D, interfaces are references, so it should be:

  IShellLinkA shellLink;
  IPersistFile linkFile;


That's exactly what the problem was, thank you!!

Re: Create Windows "shortcut" (.lnk) with D?

2016-03-06 Thread John via Digitalmars-d-learn 

On Sunday, 6 March 2016 at 03:13:23 UTC, 岩倉 澪 wrote:

IShellLinkA* shellLink;
IPersistFile* linkFile;

Any help would be highly appreciated as I'm new to Windows 
programming in D and have no idea what I'm doing wrong!


In D, interfaces are references, so it should be:

  IShellLinkA shellLink;
  IPersistFile linkFile;

Re: Create Windows "shortcut" (.lnk) with D?

2016-03-05 Thread 岩倉 澪 via Digitalmars-d-learn 

On Sunday, 6 March 2016 at 05:00:55 UTC, BBasile wrote:
If you don't want to mess with the Windows API then you can 
dynamically create a script (I do this in CE installer):


This might be an option but I'd prefer to use the Windows API 
directly. I don't know vb script and maintaining such a script 
inline would just add cognitive overhead I think.


If I can't get it working with the Windows API; I'll probably 
have to do it this way though. Thanks for the suggestion!

Re: Create Windows "shortcut" (.lnk) with D?

2016-03-05 Thread BBasile via Digitalmars-d-learn 

On Sunday, 6 March 2016 at 03:13:23 UTC, 岩倉 澪 wrote:
I'm creating a small installation script in D, but I've been 
having trouble getting shortcut creation to work! I'm a linux 
guy, so I don't know much about Windows programming...


[...]

Any help would be highly appreciated as I'm new to Windows 
programming in D and have no idea what I'm doing wrong!


If you don't want to mess with the Windows API then you can 
dynamically create a script (I do this in CE installer):


void createLnk(string exeName, string displayName)
{
import std.process: environment, executeShell;
import std.file: remove, exists;
import std.random: uniform;
import std.conv: to;

string vbsName;
do vbsName = environment.get("TEMP") ~ r"\shcsh" ~ 
uniform(0,int.max).to!string ~ ".vbs";

while (vbsName.exists);

string vbsCode = "
set WshShell = CreateObject(\"WScript.shell\")
strDesktop = WshShell.SpecialFolders(\"Desktop\")
set lnk = WshShell.CreateShortcut(strDesktop + 
\"\\%s.lnk\")

lnk.TargetPath = \"%s\"
lnk.Save
";
File vbs = File(vbsName, "w");
vbs.writefln(vbsCode, displayName, exeName);
vbs.close;
executeShell(vbsName);

vbsName.remove;
}