Re: Short-cut to a file

The easiest way on Windows is to call a VBS and capture the output.

In this`example, I open the Firefox shortcut on the desktop and read the
target Path.

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;

public class VBSUtils {
 private VBSUtils() { }

 public static String readShortcut() {
  String result = "";
  try {
   File file = File.createTempFile("realhowto",".vbs");
   file.deleteOnExit();
   FileWriter fw = new java.io.FileWriter(file);

   String vbs = "set wshshell = WScript.CreateObject(\"WScript.Shell\") \n"
              + "desktop = wshshell.SpecialFolders(\"AllUsersDesktop\") \n"
              + "set shortcut = wshshell.CreateShortcut"
              + "(desktop & \"\\Mozilla Firefox.lnk\") \n"
              + "WScript.Echo shortcut.TargetPath \n"
              + "Set wshshell = Nothing \n";

   fw.write(vbs);
   fw.close();
   Process p =
     Runtime.getRuntime().exec("cscript //NoLogo " + file.getPath());
   BufferedReader input =
    new BufferedReader
     (new InputStreamReader(p.getInputStream()));
   String line;
   while ((line = input.readLine()) != null) {
    result += line;
   }
   input.close();
  }
  catch(Exception e){
   e.printStackTrace();
  }
  return result.trim();
 }

 public static void main(String[] args){
  msgBox("Shortcut for Firefox is " + readShortcut());
 }
 public static void msgBox(String msg) {
  javax.swing.JOptionPane.showConfirmDialog((java.awt.Component)
   null, msg, "VBSUtils", javax.swing.JOptionPane.DEFAULT_OPTION);
 }
}

Bye.
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