[Opensim-users] Shortcut Creation Drive-Letter Auto- Assignment?

[Karen Palen]

<unkind comment about Windows users switching to Linux goes here> LOL

--- On Wed, 2/24/10, Len Brown <lenwbrown at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Len Brown <lenwbrown at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Opensim-users] Shortcut Creation Drive-Letter Auto- Assignment?
> To: opensim-users at lists.berlios.de
> Date: Wednesday, February 24, 2010, 11:41 PM
> I believe I found the solution!
> 
>      I just read that if you
> remove the text in the "Start in:" field then the
> shortcut will
> dynamically change each time you plug in the drive and
> click the
> shortcut - always pointing to the original executable.
> 
> 
> I removed "C:\opensim" from the Start
> in field, and so far it appears to work.  Was assigned
> as
> F on my desktop and as E: now on my laptop!
> 
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 12:20 AM,
> Len Brown <lenwbrown at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> Provided autorun is not disabled on
> the target computer, I guess I could also write an
> Autorun.inf file to automatically launch the opensim
> executable when I plug the thumb drive in...  
> 
> 
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 12:16 AM,
> Len Brown <lenwbrown at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> 
> Well, the expression is
> %SystemDrive% but the shortcut refuses to acknowledge it. 
> Either I may need to just write a simple batch file to reach
> into the opensim directory and start the executable, or
> (heaven forbid) actually navigate into the opensim directory
> and double-click the executable to start it.  :)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 12:08 AM,
> Len Brown <lenwbrown at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks Steve, I saw your post just as I was about to
> mention I'd seen the expression  %CDROM% before in DOS
> batch files. But that detected the first CD drive in
> sequence.  Maybe though I can find an expression for the
> first unassigned drive letter in sequence DOS expression and
> see how that works.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I'll experiment some and ask my good buddy Google for
> help too (but only if I have to).  :)
> 
> On Wed, Feb
> 24, 2010 at 11:49 PM, Steven Westcot <tsudico at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Len,
> Tthe easiest way on Windows might be a batch
> file that has the following line in it:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> %CD%\opensim\OpenSim.32BitLaunch.exe
> 
> %CD% is
> an environment variable for Windows that puts the current
> directory path where the variable is located.  It's
> often used in batch files and on the command prompt but
> whether it would work for a shortcut I'm not
> sure.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Steve
> W.
> 
> 
> 
> This is
> not really OpenSim specific but kinda...
> 
>     I have virtual drives I mount that OpenSim resides on
> which I use for
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> local experimentation.  These virtual drives always mount
> the the same
> specific drive letter.
> 
>     But I have a copy of OpenSim on a thumb drive I use
> on a few different
> computers.  As a result, sometimes it mounts as D: and
> sometimes as E: and
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> so on.
> 
>     I have a shortcut to the OpenSom executable located
> outside of the
> "opensim" directory on the thumb drive.  The
> shortcut has the following:
> 
> X:\opensim\OpenSim.32BitLaunch.exe
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>     X, obviously, is whatever drive the thumb drive is
> currently assigned
> 
> to.  But since this thumb drive's letter assignment
> occasionally changes, is
> there something I can replace the above with so that no
> matter what drive
> letter my thumb is assigned, the shortcut will still link
> to the executable
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> in the opensim directory?
> 
> Thanks a bunch!
> 
> --
> - Len W. Brown
> 
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