Hi all,
The Win32Utils Team is happy to announce the release of win32-shortcut
0.2.0.
What is it?
An interface for creating shortcuts on MS Windows. Here’s a quick
synopsis:
require ‘win32/shortcut’
require ‘win32/dir’
include Win32
Create a link on your desktop
Shortcut.new(Dir::DESKTOP + ‘\Shortcut Script.lnk’) do |s|
s.path = “c:\” << Dir::WINDOWS << “\notepad.exe”
s.window_style = “normal”
s.hotkey = “CTRL+SHIFT+F”
s.icon_location = “notepad.exe”
s.description = “Shortcut Script”
s.working_directory = Dir::DESKTOP
end
What’s new?
It’s now pure Ruby, using win32ole behind the scenes. There’s also a
gem.
See the documentation for further details regarding some minor API
changes and improvements.
Where is it?
The usual places - the RAA or RubyForge at
http://www.rubyforge.org/projects/win32utils.
Or, just do ‘gem install win32-shortcut’.
Acknowledgements
Thanks go to Jano S. for the idea to use win32ole + WScript.Shell
and the initial patch.
Enjoy!
The Win32Utils Team