Re: Launching IDL App. From Icon

[Randall Skelton <rhskelto(at)atm.ox.ac.uk>]

I don't use windows myself but David Fannings's site gives a description
of how to do this...

The link below might get you started:
http://www.dfanning.com/tips/idl_icon.html

Randall

On 24 Apr 2001, Aaron Birenboim wrote:

> Date: 24 Apr 2001 16:16:39 GMT
> From: Aaron Birenboim <aaron@shimi.swcp.com>
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.idl-pvwave
> Subject: Launching IDL App. From Icon
> 
> I have developed an IDL application for a customer who
> has FULL IDL licenses.  
> 
> However, the users of this application will not know IDL.
> (Several people using the same computer, what a concept!)
> 
> How can I get a pretty icon on the desktop to launch my app
> from the desktop?
> I don't want the "common" usert to be able to tell that
> my App is in IDL.  Just click on an icon, and a GUI
> pops up, just liek everything else on Windoze.
> 
> Can this be done?
> 
> In UNIX, I'd write a script to launch command-line IDL and
> run my app.  But they took out command line support under WIN32
> -- 
> Aaron Birenboim
> Albuquerque, NM
> aaron@boim.com
> http://boim.com/~aaron
>