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Shortcuts and Files

Hi there...I am useing Visual Basic 5.0 Professional, and would like to know how to do the following :

1) Create a program group, and shortcut file on the start menu (say, "My Program" - group...and "Program" - .lnk file to start program, in that group.

2) How do you copy a file using VB...say, "File1.txt" in C:\Windows to "File2.txt" in C:\My Program...or something like that.

Thanks,
Oreg

quekky

look at the example program used by VB's make installation program

oreg

ASKER

Telling me WHERE to look might help, I looked it over, which modules/forms contain what I want, and what is the code I want?

quekky

I can't remember where it is, but it is around the program that auto-creates installation file for you, in the VB directory
VB 3.0 and 4.0 have this program, I think 5.0 should have

quekky

just look around VB's directory, it's a directory with a lot BAS, FRM and 1 project file and the codes are quite long and diffucuilt to understand

oreg

ASKER

Sorry, I am basically new to VB, and I looked through it, and most of it looked garbage to me...how about a small example like in my question...does not have to be fancy, just work.

quekky

for the shortcut, you have to wait til i get back to school and copy the souce code to you

as for the copying,
Name "c:\file1.txt" As "c:\file2.bak"

oreg

ASKER

For that 'name' command, will it COPY, or rename?

quekky

it just copy
to delete the file later, use KILL

oreg

ASKER

Okay, Name and Kill are nice. What about that code for creating a program group, and icons in that group?

oreg

ASKER