Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <00b601c2bcf4$0feeb720$0402a8c0@badsector> From: "Dave Hooper" To: "Cygwin Mail List \(E-mail\)" References: Subject: Re: Explorer Shell shortcuts with a DOS shell Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 00:13:14 -0000 Organization: @spc MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 You know what I would do? I'd write a tiny .exe (for Win32) wrapper around cmd.exe and use that to execute your .bat which in turn spawns bash, etc. Why? Because as far as I know there's no way to instruct a shortcut to 'run hidden' (you can run Minimized, though). So, if the command shell window is 'only slightly' annoying, you can set your shortcut to cmd.exe /c your-batch-script.bat and set that shortcut's properties to run minimized. But, if the command shell window is 'really very' annoying, write a cheesy .exe that does a CreateProcess() on cmd.exe and specifies the SW_HIDE flag on launch. This is from memory, so apologies in advance for any mistakes or omissions. NB - this isn't really on-topic for Cygwin as it's a Win32-explorer integration problem not a Cygwin problem. Of course, you could use Cygwin (or Mingw32) to create your wrapper .exe ! :-) Naturally you'll want to use command.exe instead of cmd.exe if you're using Win9x instead of NT/2K/XP. You could even make use of the COMSPEC environment variable (e.g. on my 2K box Windows has this set to J:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe) dave > From: "Mutiso, Anthony" > I am searching for way to build Explorer shell integration tools > that I can call from say the Explorer "Send To" menu and have it > execute a shell script without the annoying DOS shell. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/