How to launch a desktop shortcut for an application?
lazarus / 34-Windows

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Awesome Programmer · 2022-03-23 06:14

hey, I would like to know how you can programmatically click on a
desktop shortcut for an application like say notepad.

I found a code that lets you create a desktop shortcut. I would like
to know how you click on it or execute the shortcut.


Thanks.

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dbannon · 2022-03-23 07:17

Maybe it would make more sense to run eg notepad directly ?

https://wiki.freepascal.org/Executing_External_Programs

Davo

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marcov · 2022-03-23 08:20

Execute over shellexecute()

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RayoGlauco · 2022-03-23 10:21

You can simulate a mouse clic as this example shows. But the previous
answers are quite right.

Code: Pascal  [Select][+][-]window.onload = function(){var x1 =
document.getElementById("main_content_section"); if (x1) { var x =
document.getElementsByClassName("geshi");for (var i = 0; i uses
JwaWinUser procedure MouseButtonDown(rightbutton: boolean);var  Input:
TInput;begin  FillChar(Input, SizeOf(Input), 0);  Input.mi.mouseData
:= 0;  Input.mi.dx := 0;  Input.mi.dy := 0;  Input.type_ :=
INPUT_MOUSE;  if rightbutton then    Input.mi.dwFlags :=
MOUSEEVENTF_RIGHTDOWN  else    Input.mi.dwFlags :=
MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTDOWN;  SendInput(1, @Input, SizeOf(Input)); procedure
MouseButtonUp(rightbutton: boolean);var  Input: TInput;begin 
FillChar(Input, SizeOf(Input), 0);  Input.mi.mouseData := 0; 
Input.mi.dx := 0;  Input.mi.dy := 0;  Input.type_ := INPUT_MOUSE;  if
rightbutton then    Input.mi.dwFlags := MOUSEEVENTF_RIGHTUP  else   
Input.mi.dwFlags := MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTUP;  SendInput(1, @Input,
SizeOf(Input));end;         procedure SendMouseClick(rightbutton:
boolean);begin  MouseButtonDown(rightbutton);  sleep(30); 
MouseButtonUp(rightbutton);end;      end;

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Awesome Programmer · 2022-03-27 15:04

Well, I might not have been more clear with my post... I want my
program to be able to execute a desktop shortcut knowing what the name
of the shortcut is. I am not trying to run Notepad... that was just an
example...

I wrote a program that creates a shortcut for a program on the desktop
and I want to execute or "run" that shortcut.

Thank you all for the reply.

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RayoGlauco · 2022-03-27 21:21

Take a look on this topic:
https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php?topic=1709.0

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Awesome Programmer · 2022-03-30 15:43

Quote from: RayoGlauco on March 27, 2022, 11:21:14 pmTake a look on
this topic:
https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php?topic=1709.0

Thank you for your reply, but that question deals with creating a .ink
shortcut. I already have a program that does. I want to be able to
LAUNCH that .ink link I created from my program. How do you do that?

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AlexTP · 2022-03-30 15:50

Did you try this?
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/shellapi/nf-
shellapi-shellexecutea