Creating a shortcut file from Java

Question

One problem which has been puzzling me for weeks now is how I can create a shortcut file from Java. Now before I say anything else, I have looked all over Google (and also o

Answer 1

http://www.mindfiresolutions.com/Creating-shortcut-from-a-Java-Application-1712.php

A nice and simple tutorial to use a jni using library called jShellLink

Answer 2

I can recommend this repository on GitHub:

https://github.com/BlackOverlord666/mslinks

There I've found a simple solution to create shortcuts:

ShellLink.createLink("path/to/existing/file.txt", "path/to/the/future/shortcut.lnk");

If you want to read shortcuts:

File shortcut = ...;
String pathToExistingFile = new ShellLink(shortcut).resolveTarget();

If you want to change the icon of the shortcut, use:

ShellLink sl = ...;
sl.setIconLocation("/path/to/icon/file");

Hope this helps you :)

Kind regards

Josua Frank