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Published: **March 1, 2016 - 2:18 PM**

Good morning,

I'm stuck on creating a shortcut in a folder on the public desktop. `mkdirs` correctly creates the "Miscellaneous" folder, but then neither of the two `create_shortcut` lines adds a shortcut...

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if not isdir(makepath(common_desktop(),'Logiciels','Divers')):
        mkdirs(makepath(common_desktop(),'Logiciels','Divers'))
        create_shortcut(makepath(common_desktop(),'Logiciels','Divers','Ebeam Home'),target=u'C:\Program Files (x86)\Luidia\eBeam Interactive Suite\eBeamHome\eBeamHome.exe')
        create_shortcut(makepath(common_desktop(),'Logiciels','Divers','Ebeam Home'),target=makepath('C:\\','Program Files (x86)','Luidia','eBeam Interactive Suite','eBeamHome','eBeamHome.exe'))

Published: **March 1, 2016 - 3:13 PM**

create_desktop_shortcut creates a shortcut on the shared desktop, so you don't need to go through the path.

https://dev.tranquil.it/sphinxdocs/sour ... p_shortcut

Something like this should work:

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def install():
    mkdirs(makepath(common_desktop(),'Logiciels','Divers'))
    create_desktop_shortcut(makepath('Logiciels','Divers','Ebeam Home.lnk'),target=makepath(programfiles32,'Luidia','eBeam Interactive Suite','eBeamHome','eBeamHome.exe'))

Published: **March 3, 2016 - 4:12 PM**

Yes, it works, thank you very much!

Published: **March 4, 2016 - 09:38**

Sorry, same problem today using the same code for the Scratch software; the shortcut won't create. I can't see what could be wrong with the code...

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    if not isdir(makepath(common_desktop(),'Logiciels','Informatique Programmation')):
        mkdirs(makepath(common_desktop(),'Logiciels','Informatique Programmation'))
    create_desktop_shortcut(makepath('Logiciels','Informatique Programmation','Scratch.lnk'),target=makepath(programfiles32,'Scratch 2','Scratch 2.exe'))

The executable is indeed located in "C:\Program Files (x86)\Scratch 2\Scratch 2.exe". No errors were reported during installation.

Published: **March 4, 2016 - 09:53**

That seems about right to me.
At least, it works here...

Published: **March 4, 2016 - 11:43**

Yes, I don't understand it at all; the same lines of code work in my PhotoFiltre package.

Published: **March 7, 2016 - 09:56**

Perhaps the indentation?

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