Shortcut

[JM]

Hi,is there anyone can teach me how to create shortcut key access for my .exe program in VB,so that it can automatically triggered using just a shortcut key,without having to go to it's path and click it...
anyone there pleaaseee help..you may just send your help to my email at [email protected]
please help....
thanks...

[Fed]

you may just send your help to my email

Capon  

[Sidewinder]

All my responses are posted to the forum. I do not do email except under special circumstances. This is not one of them.

Normally this is done when you design the form. By including an icon in the form, all the makings of the shortcut are complete. If you package your project for installation, the shortcut is created automatically during the install.

You can create a shortcut manually by right clicking the desktop, choose new-->shortcut and fill in the screen. Also manually, you can find the program in Windows Explorer, drag it to the desktop and when the screen pops up choose create shortcut

This script will create a desktop shortcut via the command line.

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set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
strDesktop = WshShell.SpecialFolders("Desktop")
set oShellLink = WshShell.CreateShortcut(strDesktop & "\Shortcut Script.lnk")
oShellLink.TargetPath = WScript.ScriptFullName
oShellLink.WindowStyle = 1
oShellLink.Hotkey = "CTRL+SHIFT+F"
oShellLink.IconLocation = "notepad.exe, 0"
oShellLink.Description = "Shortcut Script"
oShellLink.WorkingDirectory = strDesktop
oShellLink.Save


Change the parameters accordingly, save script with an extension of vbs and run from the command line:

cscript scriptname.vbs

Good luck.  

[humanrain2k]

thanks dude for your reply,but yes I know how to do that but what I want to do is to create shortcut on the notification task bar(the one beside the time on the task bar)Is there any direction to do that?Please tell me how.

[Sidewinder]

[*sigh*]

Most people try to get stuff out of the notification area. There is a freeware program available at PutInTray

Next time please be more specific in your post.

Good luck.

Are you and JM one and the same person?

[JM]

Yes I'm also JM,thanks dude i look on to your tip..