Start Menu and PBW
 

XP pro - how do I get a PBW icon into the most used list on the start menu?
I have got the launcher there (it did it automaticly)
but it doesent seem to want to put a java progy there.

Re: Start Menu and PBW
 

I think it might be limited to .exe files. Just use the quick launch bar. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Re: Start Menu and PBW
 

Can't you drag it and drop it above the delimeter line?

Altough I think it's easier to start it from the quicklaunch bar as Fyron stated.

[ May 21, 2004, 09:41: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

Re: Start Menu and PBW
 

Yes, I tried it and you can drag and drop a shortcut above the line. It's not in the actual "most used" section, but it's right there on the start menu. To make the shortcut you just right click on the web page in explorer and select the shortcut option. It will save it to the desktop and you can drag it from there.

Re: Start Menu and PBW
 

opps, did I say PBW? I meant the RTC...
but yea.

Re: Start Menu and PBW
 

Isn't RTC an executable jar? I am not positive, but I believe that the most used programs part doesn't like java programs...

Re: Start Menu and PBW
 

I can drag an RTC shortcut onto the start menu just fine.

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yea, I guess above the line will have to do.

incedentaly, I turned the neural combat net image into a RTC icon if anyone wants it.

Re: Start Menu and PBW
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">No, not the normal start menu, the recently used programs section of the start menu. You can not drag stuff onto that.

Re: Start Menu and PBW
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">No, not the normal start menu, the recently used programs section of the start menu. You can not drag stuff onto that. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I understand that Fyron. That was already discussed.

Re: Start Menu and PBW
 

Nobody was talking about adding links to the start menu on the parts you can manually edit. Links to anything can be added there. We were talking about the behavior of the most used programs section, which has nothing to do with dragging stuff onto the start menu.

Re: Start Menu and PBW
 

fyron - your starting to sound grumpy! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

hey, will a .bat go in there?
himnnn....

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Wrong. You obviously didn't read the other Posts in the thread very carefully, as usual.
<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana"> <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">See? I understood that the most used programs section couldn't be manually altered. However, Ruatha and I were trying to present Se5a with options to do very nearly what it was that he wanted to do, even though he couldn't do exactly what he wanted to do. The area of the start menu that can me manually modified is so close to the most used programs section, and both are on the start menu.

See, unlike you were were trying to be helpful and offer suggestsions, rather then just showing off our massive knowledge of Windows operation.

Re: Start Menu and PBW
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Isn't is possible to turn a .bat file into a windows .exe file? I think I saw a utility that would do that once. If so you could make a batch file that would launch the jar file, turn the .bat file into an .exe and then Windows would probably stick it in the most used programs section.

EDIT: Ah, well maybe not. The utility I was thinking about was an old Dos utility. Doesn't work with Windows executable programs. If you know anything about programing it would probably be pretty easy to write and compile a simple program that calls a shortcut for the RTC jar file. But that might be more trouble then it's worth.

[ May 23, 2004, 17:00: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

Re: Start Menu and PBW
 

RTC doesent seem to be workign for me atm - is that part of PBW down?

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Actually, I do read Posts very carefully. Responding very carefully is another story... I meant, nobody in the span of these Posts:

Quote:

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron: [QB] Isn't RTC an executable jar? I am not positive, but I believe that the most used programs part doesn't like java programs...

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana"> <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">I was not saying that nobody in the entire thread was ever talking about that, but that nobody in the current part of the discussion was talking about it. The discussion was again about the most used programs section, not the normal part of the start menu.

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">It was not apparent from the following post:

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">This post was 100% redundant, as there was no need to repeat yourself when I was talking about the most used programs section.

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Yeah, whatever. I guess personal insults are above your duties as moderator. Please moderate your Posts down.

My Posts were quite helpful, as they were answering se5a's questions.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">It was down, but it's working now.