Alexander Kapps wrote: > On 01.02.2011 22:43, Diesel wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I'd like to add menu entry in the Program Menu as part of the >> installation of an application. Is it possible to do that from Python? >> >> Any examples or link? I have not been able to find anything with >> google... >> >> thanks in advance >> s/ >> > > AFAIK, the startmenu entries are just .lnk files, placed either in > the "All Users" or "Some Specific User" Startmenu directory. I only > have a German XP and can't boot it to test at the moment, so I can't > give more details, but there are surely registry entries to find the > Startmenu location for the current user or for "All Users". > > See http://codesnippets.joyent.com/posts/show/529 for an example how > to place .lnk files. However, for real deployment, you probably want > to use a real installer framework like NSIS for example. >
Thanks Alexander, in the meanwhile I also found this [1] message that reports the following snippet that uses module winshell (and win32...): [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/python-win32@python.org/msg05411.html import os, sys import winshell startup = winshell.startup () # use common=1 for all users print startup winshell.CreateShortcut ( Path=os.path.join (winshell.startup (), "Python.lnk"), Target=sys.executable, Icon=(sys.executable, 0), Description="Python" ) thanks again *:-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
