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authorFrerich Raabe <raabe@froglogic.com>2015-10-21 17:21:47 +0200
committerKarsten Heimrich <karsten.heimrich@theqtcompany.com>2015-12-08 13:06:13 +0000
commitd129ccdb8aa63185ea939068d892b27c634e4842 (patch)
tree88c7a330a9851c7cacb804f4c55e1a8519d6e649 /doc
parent85ce71449b9ec80f636054ef447a21716cf5ab7a (diff)
Implemented support for creating URL shortcuts on Windows
This makes it possible to use the CreateShortcut operation for creating http: and ftp: links, too. This is useful for adding links to online resources to the start menu. The detection of hyperlinks is very simplistic at this point, but good enough many purposes. Change-Id: I80b5eea466a37891cb378eb5c603c08f065bd843 Reviewed-by: Karsten Heimrich <karsten.heimrich@theqtcompany.com>
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\li Creates a shortcut from the file specified by \c filename to
\c linkname.
On Windows, this creates a .lnk file which can have
- \c arguments. On Unix, this creates a symbolic link.
+ \c arguments. Furthermore, on Windows, \c filename can be
+ an HTTP or FTP URL in which case a URL shortcut is created.
+ On Unix, this creates a symbolic link.
\row
\li CreateDesktopEntry
\li "CreateDesktopEntry" \c {filename "key=value[ key2=value2[ key3=value3]]]"}