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Re: Launching IDL App. From Icon [message #24846]

Wed, 25 April 2001 18:13

davidf
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Registered: September 1996

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Aaron Birenboim (aaron@shimi.swcp.com) writes:

> have developed an IDL application for a customer who
> has FULL IDL licenses.
>
> However, the users of this application will not know IDL.
> (Several people using the same computer, what a concept!)
>
> How can I get a pretty icon on the desktop to launch my app
> from the desktop?
> I don't want the "common" usert to be able to tell that
> my App is in IDL. Just click on an icon, and a GUI
> pops up, just liek everything else on Windoze.
>
> Can this be done?
>
> In UNIX, I'd write a script to launch command-line IDL and
> run my app. But they took out command line support under WIN32

Here is an article that explains the process on Windoze:

http://www.dfanning.com/tips/idl_icon.html

Cheers,

David

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		Re: Launching IDL App. From Icon By: davidf on Wed, 25 April 2001 18:13
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