jim.hobday1.5524937783451938E12 asked a question.
Cant make Shortcut Run Minimised (Win)
Newbie - so please excuse me if my searching skills did not reveal an existing answer...
At the moment IA successfully creates a Windows Desktop Shortcut to a batch file that in turn launches a Java Desktop App. The stdout and stderr are useful in the DOS window so I don't want to run javaw.exe but I would like to minimise the DOS window.
Now MS-Windows shortcuts allow you to specify "Run Minimised" but the IA "Create Alias, Link, Shortcut" doesn't have that option.
Am I missing something? or if I'm right, has anyone found a way around it?
Cheers
Jim
[LIST=1]- detect Windows
- create a vb script file
- create the contents (according to the users install choices - e.g. location) like this..
set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
strDesktop = WshShell.SpecialFolders("Desktop")
set oMyShortcut = WshShell.CreateShortcut(strDesktop & "\Sentences 4.0.39.PE.lnk")
oMyShortcut.WindowStyle = 7
oMyShortcut.IconLocation = "C:\Program Files\Lazy\SentencesPersonal40\sentences.ico"
oMyShortcut.Description = "Start Sentences Personal Edition"
OMyShortcut.TargetPath = "C:\Program Files\Lazy\SentencesPersonal40\sentences.bat"
OMyShortcut.WorkingDirectory = "C:\Program Files\Lazy\SentencesPersonal40\sentences.bat"
oMyShortCut.Save
And then execute it
Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("cscript //T:1 short.vbs", null, dir);
using the cscript exe that is standard on XP, Vista and Windows 7.
Simple. Well simpler than calling the Windows API from Java.
Anyone know a workaround for Linux?
I'm presuming MacOSX doesn't show you the console anyway - can't test at the moment.