On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 09:12:59PM -0500, Dick Repasky wrote: > > Attached is a patch to mkshortcut in the cygutils package that adds > a commandline option for specifying how the new window for the launched > application should be appear - normal, minimized or maximized. > > The patch was made against cygutils version 1.2.4. I hope that it is > included in the next release of cygutils.
Dick, Thanks very much for the patch (even for the man page, too)! I made two small changes. First, I put the -s option in alphanumeric order instead of at the end of --help output. Second, the normal and maximized modes work as expected on my Windows XP Pro box, but the minimized does not (tested with IE, notepad, and Explorer)... from a quick look at MSDN, it looks like MS now recommends SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE (minimize and no focus), which I think is maybe what you really want anyway: <http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/shell/reference/ifaces/ishelllink/SetShowCmd.asp> Unfortunately XP is all I have now, so I can't make sure this works with all Windows versions, but I found this article from 1995 that lists it, so I think we're in good shape: <http://msdn.microsoft.com/archive/default.asp?url=/archive/en-us/dnarvbtips/html/msdn_msdn7.asp> So anyway I was going to commit the change into CVS, but it looks like I don't have write to the cygutils module of cygwin-apps... attached is the updated CVS diff. Cygutils is infrequently released, but the next version should have the change in it. Thanks again! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
