How to add an icon to a URL shortcut?

ScotK · 21st January 2011, 02:05

Here's my code so far but it puts an IE looking page icon on my desktop instead of the red.ico file that I want on the desktop. How do I make the actual desktop icon work?

WriteINIStr "$DESKTOP\$(^Name).url" "InternetShortcut" "${NSISDIR}\Contrib\Graphics\Icons\red.ico" "www.MyDomain.com/MyPage.html"

Thanks!

jpderuiter · 21st January 2011, 07:19

http://nsis.sourceforge.net/CreateIn...o_%26_function

Anders · 21st January 2011, 13:38

${NSISDIR} is a path on the system you compile on and can NOT be used in a shortcut, you must copy the icon to the users system and then use a path like "$instdir\youricon.ico"

Afrow UK · 21st January 2011, 15:32

Yes and you're not creating the .url file correctly anyway. Check that link jpderuiter posted. And yes the icon must exist on the destination machine so you should either extract one specially or use your application executable's icon (might need ,0 at the end of the icon path).

Stu

21st January 2011, 02:05	#1
ScotK Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2011 Posts: 1	How to add an icon to a URL shortcut? Here's my code so far but it puts an IE looking page icon on my desktop instead of the red.ico file that I want on the desktop. How do I make the actual desktop icon work? WriteINIStr "$DESKTOP\$(^Name).url" "InternetShortcut" "${NSISDIR}\Contrib\Graphics\Icons\red.ico" "www.MyDomain.com/MyPage.html" Thanks! Last edited by ScotK; 21st January 2011 at 03:07.

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21st January 2011, 07:19	#2
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21st January 2011, 15:32	#4
Afrow UK Moderator Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Surrey, England Posts: 8,434	Yes and you're not creating the .url file correctly anyway. Check that link jpderuiter posted. And yes the icon must exist on the destination machine so you should either extract one specially or use your application executable's icon (might need ,0 at the end of the icon path). Stu