Re: Parsing properties in Link- and Internet Shortcut files

Hi Matthias, Yes, I meant lcMailAndFtp.livecode. I’m looking at https://www.techstrategies.com.au/tsnet-resources/ now. I’ll get back to you later after absorbing what I can understand. Thanks! Rick > On Mar 1, 2021, at 12:38 PM, matthia

Re: Parsing properties in Link- and Internet Shortcut files

Rick, do you mean the stack lcMailAndFtp.livecode? The original stack was created by Charles Warwick, the developer of the tsNet externals. If i remember correctly, i added the FTP part or so and put that modified stack as lcMailAndFtp.livecode online. You could look here for a newer version (

Re: Parsing properties in Link- and Internet Shortcut files

Hi Matthias, I ran into your send email stack with TSNet yesterday while looking for a solution to some of my livecode email problems. After filling in the test fields to send a message and hitting the send button, it told me the message was sent, but upon checking my email it was clear that it

Re: Parsing properties in Link- and Internet Shortcut files

Hi Matthias, I ran into your send email stack with TSNet yesterday while looking for a solution to some of my livecode email problems. After filling in the test fields to send a message and hitting the send button, it told me the message was sent, but upon checking my email it was clear that it

Re: Parsing properties in Link- and Internet Shortcut files

@ Hagan @ Matthias I posted my hack on the forum also mentioning our discussion here: https://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=35458 Of course, if some one has clean solution to actually read Window's binary ".lnk" file, it would be another lesson to enjoy. Unfortunately, I cannot do it n

Re. Parsing properties in Link- and Internet Shortcut files

@ Matthias Windows 10 with "ink" and "url" files: Thank you very much for the link regarding ".lnk" files. I did not see this before. I will look into it. I also checked the binary format as published by Microsoft. I just answered Hakan without having read your suggestion. ) Sorry that I did not

Re: Parsing properties in Link- and Internet Shortcut files

Dear Hakan Thank you very much for this information. As you may have noticed, I had solved the problem using the Batch file the same day I posted the question for Windows. For Mac, I had no idea and your input is highly appreciated. For Linux I also do not know. Actually, these special files on

Re: Parsing properties in Link- and Internet Shortcut files

I tried here to find an "empty" .url file, but w/o success. My .url files i have collected over the years on my Windows VM are all textfiles. If you could provide a link to such an empty one, i would be really interested to see that. Regarding the .lnk files, which seem to be in a binary form

Re: Parsing properties in Link- and Internet Shortcut files

On macOS URL link files are stored as a plist-file like: http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd";> URL https://lessons.livecode.com/ So you can open the file as text and then parse the content. :-Håkan On 12 Feb 2021, 18:55 +0100, R.H. via use-livecode , wrote: > I a

Re: Parsing properties in Link- and Internet Shortcut files -- SOLVED for Windows 10 -- Added remarks

Hi there Windows 10: The .bat file is required for those .url files that do not give you a text when opening (and that was the problem). Some of the .url files can also simply be read using this sample script. (And these specific files cannot be read with the .bat file as I seem to recognize. Fur

Re: Parsing properties in Link- and Internet Shortcut files -- SOLVED for Windows 10

Tested on Windows 10: I now found and tested the batch file script that works now: Create a batch file, for example "GetURL.bat" Edit the file with a text editor (Notepad++ or whatever) Put the following script into this file: :: START OF SCRIPT -- comment line @echo off setlocal enableextensio