By context menu, I mean the "Pin this program to the taskbar" item in the context menu of the Taskbar when Softimage is running. The problem is that this option pins xsi.exe because that's what running. If you make a launcher that starts xsi.bat and then quits, then it doesn't solve that problem because the running process is still xsi.exe. It just adds a launcher that launches another launcher (cmd.exe which launched the .bat file) It solves the other problem, which is that it gives you something to drag on your taskbar, since .bat file won't work.
But you can take the shortcut for Softimage 2013 that is on your desktop, modify "Target" to add "cmd.exe " in front of "C\Program files...xsi.bat" and now you can drag and drop it onto the taskbar On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 7:35 AM, Luc-Eric Rousseau <[email protected]>wrote: > how does that fix the context menu the user is trying to use? > if you wanted something to put on the task bar directly, afaik you can > already drag a standard windows shortcut to XSI.bat like ralf wrote > > > On Wednesday, April 17, 2013, Angus Davidson wrote: > >> Okay Just got tired of the issue so I created a small application. XSI >> Bounce >> >> Just copy it into the Appplication/bin folder. It shouldn't matter what >> version you are using. >> >> All it does is check to see if XSI.bat is there and if it is run the >> batch file. It will then quit. On fast machines you probably won't even >> notice it opening. >> >> That way you can easily pin something to the Start Bar. >> >> You can get it from http://db.tt/EG3p9Ihb >> >> TODO. 1) Get a decent Icon, Currently just generic application Icon >> 2)Test to see if it works with network licensing >> >> Kind regards >> >> Angus >> >> From: Rob Wuijster <[email protected]> >> Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, " >> [email protected]" <[email protected]> >> Date: Tuesday 16 April 2013 4:08 PM >> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: Softimage promo >> >> Funny that this stuff comes back with every new release of Softimage. >> There's some solutions on this in the mail archives, and even on the >> forums. >> >> Rob >> >> \/-------------\/----------------\/ >> >> On 16-4-2013 14:22, Angus Davidson wrote: >> >> Is it not possible to write a launcher program that will do the same thing >> >> as the batch file. >> >> That way you can leave xsi.exe unchanged and it will still have what ever >> it needs in place before it runs. >> >> >> >> On 2013/04/16 1:41 PM, "Luc-Eric Rousseau" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 2:47 AM, Szabolcs Matefy <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> To me (Win7 latest updates) it¹s not available. It wants to pin to the >> exisiting Icons, but not the taskbar. However, Maya, Max, ZBrush and all >> other programs offer the option >> >> None of these apps offer this option, this is a task bar menu >> "offered" by Microsoft. It creates shortcut to Softimage.exe but >> Softimage needs to be started by a .bat file, because that's how we >> set the environment variable per-version. Don't know if it's worth to >> come up with a combination of different systems to replace that just >> to work around that taskbar menu. >> >> 1) Run Softimage, right click on taskbar and select "Pin this program >> to taskbar" >> 2) quit Softimage (important otherwise step 3 won't work) >> 3) shift-right-click on the Softimage icon on the taskbar and select >> Properties >> 4) change xsi.exe to xsi.bat >> >> >> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" >> style="width:100%;"> >> <tr> >> <td align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font face="arial,sans-serif" >> size="1" color="#999999"><span style="font-size:11px;">This communication is >> intended for the addressee only. It is confidential. If you have received >> this communication in error, please notify us immediately and destroy the >> original message. You may not copy or disseminate this communication without >> the permission of the University. 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