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Published: **April 17, 2026 - 2:24 PM**

Hello,

would it be possible to add an argument to the setuphelpers for functions related to creating shortcuts, allowing the user to choose a DLL icon and its index? For example: `

create_desktop_shortcut(label="Test", target="ms-settings:network-airplanemode", icon_dll="C:\Windows\System32\imageres.dll", index_dll=100)`

This would allow for an icon like this one : https://renenyffenegger.ch/development/ ... es-100.png (it's not the latest version, but you get the idea

).

Thanks in advance!

Have a good day.

Stan

Published: **April 17, 2026 - 2:54 PM**

Hi Stan,

I think this is a bit too specific to be integrated directly into the `create_desktop_shortcut` function.

However, why not add an icon extraction function to the setuphelpers for the `update_package`?

We've already done this with a custom solution in an internal package for a client. I'll see if it's something that can be generalized.

Regards,

Denis

Published: **April 17, 2026 - 3:45 PM**

Good morning,

Thank you for your reply.
After researching the setuphelpers code, I noticed that it was actually quite simple (or at least I assume so).

If we look at the shortcut creation function (https://www.wapt.fr/apidoc/wapt-2.6/win ... e_shortcut)
We find two places (in the last 3 lines I have commented) in relation to this index, all that would be missing is to add the argument I suppose.

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def create_shortcut(path, target='', arguments='', wDir='', icon=''):
    r"""Create a windows shortcut

    Args:
        path (str) : As what file should the shortcut be created?
        target (str): What command should the desktop use?
        arguments (str): What arguments should be supplied to the command?
        wdir (str) : working directory. What folder should the command start in?
        icon (str or list) : filename or (filename, index) (only for file sc)
                              What icon should be used for the shortcut

    Returns:
        None

    >>> create_shortcut(r'c:\\tmp\\test.lnk',target='c:\\wapt\\waptconsole.exe')
    """
    ext = os.path.splitext(path)[1].lower()
    if ext == '.url':
        with open(path, 'w') as shortcut:
            shortcut.write('[InternetShortcut]\n')
            shortcut.write('URL=%s\n' % target)
            shortcut.write('IconFile="%s"\n' % icon)
            shortcut.write('IconIndex=0\n') # ICI
    else:
        winshell.CreateShortcut(path, target, arguments, wDir, (icon, 0), '')# ET ICI

All that would be needed is this (?):

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def create_shortcut(path, target='', arguments='', wDir='', icon='', index_icon=''):
    r"""Create a windows shortcut

    Args:
        path (str) : As what file should the shortcut be created?
        target (str): What command should the desktop use?
        arguments (str): What arguments should be supplied to the command?
        wdir (str) : working directory. What folder should the command start in?
        icon (str or list) : filename or (filename, index) (only for file sc)
                              What icon should be used for the shortcut

    Returns:
        None

    >>> create_shortcut(r'c:\\tmp\\test.lnk',target='c:\\wapt\\waptconsole.exe')
    """
    ext = os.path.splitext(path)[1].lower()
    index_icon = index_icon if os.path.splitext(icon)[1].lower() == '.dll' else 0 
    if ext == '.url':
        with open(path, 'w') as shortcut:
            shortcut.write('[InternetShortcut]\n')
            shortcut.write('URL=%s\n' % target)
            shortcut.write('IconFile="%s"\n' % icon)
            shortcut.write('IconIndex="%s"\n' % index_icon)
    else:
        winshell.CreateShortcut(path, target, arguments, wDir, (icon, index_icon), '')

Thanks in advance !

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