.bat on taskbar?

Hi All,

Windows 7 Pro, SP1, 32 bit

I created a Perl6 program for a customer. I created a shortcut
to it on the desktop. But Windows won't allow me to to copy
it to the task bar as perl6 is a batch file.

Looking at google, the trick of creating
cmd /c perl6 program.pl6
on the desktop and dragging it to the task bar, did not
work either

Any word of wisdom?

-T

On 05/04/2018 01:20 PM, T wrote:
Hi All,

Windows 7 Pro, SP1, 32 bit

I created a Perl6 program for a customer.Â* I created a shortcut
to it on the desktop.Â* But Windows won't allow me to to copy
it to the task bar as perl6 is a batch file.

Looking at google, the trick of creating
Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â* cmd /c perl6 program.pl6
on the desktop and dragging it to the task bar, did not
work either

Any word of wisdom?

-T

It seams that it does not like "cmd.exe"

On 05/04/2018 04:20 PM, T wrote:
Hi All,

Windows 7 Pro, SP1, 32 bit

I created a Perl6 program for a customer.Â* I created a shortcut
to it on the desktop.Â* But Windows won't allow me to to copy
it to the task bar as perl6 is a batch file.

Looking at google, the trick of creating
Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â* cmd /c perl6 program.pl6
on the desktop and dragging it to the task bar, did not
work either

Any word of wisdom?

-T
Put it on the menu by copying it in
C:\Users\name\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\St art Menu\Programs
and then open the Windows start menu (bottom left corner icon) and find
it and right click and "add to task bar" ? maybe?

On 05/04/2018 02:57 PM, Big Al wrote:
On 05/04/2018 04:20 PM, T wrote:
Hi All,

Windows 7 Pro, SP1, 32 bit

I created a Perl6 program for a customer.Â* I created a shortcut
to it on the desktop.Â* But Windows won't allow me to to copy
it to the task bar as perl6 is a batch file.

Looking at google, the trick of creating
Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â* cmd /c perl6 program.pl6
on the desktop and dragging it to the task bar, did not
work either

Any word of wisdom?

-T
Put it on the menu by copying it in
C:\Users\name\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\St art Menu\Programs
and then open the Windows start menu (bottom left corner icon) and find
it and right click and "add to task bar" ?Â*Â* maybe?

All I can do it "send to desktop". No pin options in
the context menu.

Rats!

Thank you anyway!

-T

On 05/04/2018 01:20 PM, T wrote:
Hi All,

Windows 7 Pro, SP1, 32 bit

I created a Perl6 program for a customer.Â* I created a shortcut
to it on the desktop.Â* But Windows won't allow me to to copy
it to the task bar as perl6 is a batch file.

Looking at google, the trick of creating
Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â* cmd /c perl6 program.pl6
on the desktop and dragging it to the task bar, did not
work either

Any word of wisdom?

-T

Tried using what the bat file used and that did not work
either (the shortcut did):

C:\rakudo\bin\moar.exe --execname="%~dpf0"
--libpath="C:\rakudo\share\nqp\lib"
--libpath="C:\rakudo\share\perl6\lib"
--libpath="C:\rakudo\share\perl6\runtime"
C:\rakudo\share\perl6\runtime\perl6.moarvm C:\NtUtil\RemoveMargin.pl6"

T wrote:

Windows 7 Pro, SP1, 32 bit

I created a Perl6 program for a customer. I created a shortcut
to it on the desktop. But Windows won't allow me to to copy
it to the task bar as perl6 is a batch file.

Looking at google, the trick of creating
cmd /c perl6 program.pl6
on the desktop and dragging it to the task bar, did not
work either

"Copy to the taskbar". Not sure what you mean. Are you trying to pin a
program to the Windows taskbar? If so, there are restrictions on
filetypes supported for pinning. You can pin shortcuts (that point to
..bat file) to the Windows taskbar. You cannot pin .bat files to the
Windows taskbar.

You can always use or add toolbars to the Windows taskbar. I don't like
pinning and instead use shortcuts in toolbars: QuickLaunch toolbar
(which I had to create since Win7 didn't include an install-time one),
toolbar for web browsers, toolbar for e-mail and other communications, a
utility toolbar, and the addressbar toolbar. I can add shortcuts to
..bat files in any toolbar in the Windows taskbar.

While you can run a .bat file pointed to by a shortcut (.lnk file), you
can also specify commands to run in the shortcut, and you can even
specify multiple commands. You can pin shortcuts to the Window taskbar
(or put them into toolbars in the Windows taskbar).

Create a shortcut on the desktop that runs:

cmd.exe /c "perl6 program.pl6"

If perl6.exe is not in the PATH environment variable (already defined
for use in the new command shell), you will either need to include a
path to it in the command string or specify the target folder ad the
default one in which to start the command shell. You may also have to
specify the path to the .pl6 file. Depends on how the Perl interpreter
can locate its script files. Notice that I enclosed the *command* spec
of cmd.exe within double-quotes. You need to tell cmd.exe what is the
command -- and you have spaces in your command argument. Run "cmd /?"
in an existing command shell and notice what is its syntax. All it
shows is "string" as the command for the shell to run. Think about how
to parse the arguments. You want "perl6 program.pl6" to specify the ONE
argument for "string" that cmd.exe will run. That alone might be your
problem.

While most users only run one command per shortcut, it is possible to
run multiple commands. Delimit each command with & (ampersand) to make
execution non-conditional (every command gets executed regardless what
happened for any one command) and && (double ampersand) to run the
commands conditionally (the next command runs only if the return status
was zero/OK from the prior command). For example, you could run:

dir c:\ /s filelist.txt && notepad.exe filelist.txt

This does a directory listing, dumps stdout into a file, and then loads
that file into Notepad. There's no point in loading Notepad unless the
prior dir command returned an okay status (errorlevel = 0). In your
case, you only showed running a single command. I just mentioned the
ampersands for information should you have a short set of commands that
you could execute just by using a shortcut instead of creating a .bat
file that the shortcut calls.

On 05/04/2018 08:25 PM, VanguardLH wrote:
T wrote:

Windows 7 Pro, SP1, 32 bit

I created a Perl6 program for a customer. I created a shortcut
to it on the desktop. But Windows won't allow me to to copy
it to the task bar as perl6 is a batch file.

Looking at google, the trick of creating
cmd /c perl6 program.pl6
on the desktop and dragging it to the task bar, did not
work either

"Copy to the taskbar".

Pin to the task bar

Not sure what you mean. Are you trying to pin a
program to the Windows taskbar? If so, there are restrictions on
filetypes supported for pinning. You can pin shortcuts (that point to
.bat file) to the Windows taskbar. You cannot pin .bat files to the
Windows taskbar.


Create a shortcut on the desktop that runs:

cmd.exe /c "perl6 program.pl6"

This the favorite on Google: I does not work for me.



If perl6.exe is not in the PATH environment variable (already defined
for use in the new command shell),

It is.

The exact run sting is:

"%comspec% " /K C:\rakudo\bin\perl6.bat C:\NtUtil\RemoveMargin.pl6 && exit

"%comspec% " /C C:\rakudo\bin\perl6.bat C:\NtUtil\RemoveMargin.pl6

Does not work either.

I got the first one to pin once. Then it refused afterwards.

On 05/05/2018 05:13, T wrote:

"%comspec% " /K C:\rakudo\bin\perl6.bat C:\NtUtil\RemoveMargin.pl6 && exit

"%comspec% " /C C:\rakudo\bin\perl6.bat C:\NtUtil\RemoveMargin.pl6

Does not work either.

I got the first one to pin once.Â* Then it refused afterwards.

Why is there a space between the end of %ComSpec% and the closing quote?
Is that your problem?

I have two DOS/CMD prompts open at the moment. If I rt-click the
TaskBar button of either, I have the option "Pin this program to taskbar"

[]
I have two DOS/CMD prompts open at the moment. If I rt-click the
TaskBar button of either, I have the option "Pin this program to
taskbar"

That'll give you a pinned shortcut (is shortcut the right term?) to the
command prompt; I have one, whose Target line is
"%SystemRoot%\system32\cmd.exe" [without the ""]. It wouldn't give you s
shortcut to a batch file. However, maybe you could add the name of a
batch file _to_ its target line. [Maybe needing some "", perhaps even
nested.]

Incidentally, I found I had to right-click _twice_ to get to the Target
line: the first one just brings up a two-line menu, containing "Command
Prompt" and "Unpin this program from task bar". Right-clicking _on_ the
first one brings up another menu that includes Properties, which brings
up the normal properties of a shortcut. Checking with my other "pinned"
shortcuts (?), this seems to be how they all behave - some pop up
something with more than two lines (some of them adding sections
labelled Tasks or Frequent), but those two are always there at the
bottom, and Properties is never there until you do the next right-click
on the upper of the two. (I haven't "played" with pinned "shortcuts"
before; it seems they aren't _that_ different to normal ones though.)
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

No, I haven't changed my mind - I'm perfectly happy with the one I have, thank
you.

On 05/05/2018 03:26 AM, Java Jive wrote:
On 05/05/2018 05:13, T wrote:

"%comspec% " /K C:\rakudo\bin\perl6.bat C:\NtUtil\RemoveMargin.pl6 &&
exit

"%comspec% " /C C:\rakudo\bin\perl6.bat C:\NtUtil\RemoveMargin.pl6

Does not work either.

I got the first one to pin once.Â* Then it refused afterwards.

Why is there a space between the end of %ComSpec% and the closing quote?
Â*Is that your problem?

Doesn't effect it


I have two DOS/CMD prompts open at the moment.Â* If I rt-click the
TaskBar button of either, I have the option "Pin this program to taskbar"

I can do the same. I get blocked after I add anything to the
cmd.exe run line

On 05/05/2018 03:58 AM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

"%SystemRoot%\system32\cmd.exe"

and %comspec% are the same thing

On 05/05/2018 03:58 AM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
[]
I have two DOS/CMD prompts open at the moment.Â* If I rt-click the
TaskBar button of either, I have the option "Pin this program to taskbar"

That'll give you a pinned shortcut (is shortcut the right term?) to the
command prompt; I have one, whose Target line is
"%SystemRoot%\system32\cmd.exe" [without the ""]. It wouldn't give you s
shortcut to a batch file. However, maybe you could add the name of a
batch file _to_ its target line. [Maybe needing some "", perhaps even
nested.]

Incidentally, I found I had to right-click _twice_ to get to the Target
line: the first one just brings up a two-line menu, containing "Command
Prompt" and "Unpin this program from task bar". Right-clicking _on_ the
first one brings up another menu that includes Properties, which brings
up the normal properties of a shortcut. Checking with my other "pinned"
shortcuts (?), this seems to be how they all behave - some pop up
something with more than two lines (some of them adding sections
labelled Tasks or Frequent), but those two are always there at the
bottom, and Properties is never there until you do the next right-click
on the upper of the two. (I haven't "played" with pinned "shortcuts"
before; it seems they aren't _that_ different to normal ones though.)


Well that worked. I did a search on cmd, then pinned it to the task
bar. I rt clicked on the taskbar icon, then rt clicked again on
Command Prompt, selected Properties, and altered the shortcut.

The only thing I can't get it to do now is use the icon I
specified.

Thank you!

On 05/05/2018 05:41 AM, T wrote:
On 05/05/2018 03:58 AM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
[]
I have two DOS/CMD prompts open at the moment.Â* If I rt-click the
TaskBar button of either, I have the option "Pin this program to
taskbar"

That'll give you a pinned shortcut (is shortcut the right term?) to
the command prompt; I have one, whose Target line is
"%SystemRoot%\system32\cmd.exe" [without the ""]. It wouldn't give you
s shortcut to a batch file. However, maybe you could add the name of a
batch file _to_ its target line. [Maybe needing some "", perhaps even
nested.]

Incidentally, I found I had to right-click _twice_ to get to the
Target line: the first one just brings up a two-line menu, containing
"Command Prompt" and "Unpin this program from task bar".
Right-clicking _on_ the first one brings up another menu that includes
Properties, which brings up the normal properties of a shortcut.
Checking with my other "pinned" shortcuts (?), this seems to be how
they all behave - some pop up something with more than two lines (some
of them adding sections labelled Tasks or Frequent), but those two are
always there at the bottom, and Properties is never there until you do
the next right-click on the upper of the two. (I haven't "played" with
pinned "shortcuts" before; it seems they aren't _that_ different to
normal ones though.)


Well that worked.Â* I did a search on cmd, then pinned it to the task
bar.Â* I rt clicked on the taskbar icon, then rt clicked again on
Command Prompt, selected Properties, and altered the shortcut.

The only thing I can't get it to do now is use the icon I
specified.

Thank you!

Thank you all for the help!

Okay, here is what I got so far.

1) desktop
2) create shortcut: %comspec%
Do not rename the shortcut or pinning to the taskbar will fail
3) change the new shortcuts icon
4) pin to the taskbar
5) Right Clink on the taskbar icon
on the pop up, right click again on Properties
6) add after %comspec% what you need on the command line. For example:
"%comspec%" /C C:\rakudo\bin\perl6.bat C:\NtUtil\RemoveMargin.pl6

The only thing missing is the icon's name, which I haven't figured
out how to change yet

On 05/05/2018 13:31, T wrote:

On 05/05/2018 03:26 AM, Java Jive wrote:

I have two DOS/CMD prompts open at the moment.Â* If I rt-click the
TaskBar button of either, I have the option "Pin this program to taskbar"

I can do the same.Â* I get blocked after I add anything to the
cmd.exe run line

One of my DOS Prompts already had stuff after the CMD to launch a *.BAT
file to initialise the environment, yet it still pins to the TaskBar,
and from there launches the DOS Prompt and initialises it correctly.

In message , T writes:
On 05/05/2018 03:58 AM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

"%SystemRoot%\system32\cmd.exe"

and %comspec% are the same thing

Thanks, useful to know. I was just quoting a previous poster.
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

Being punctual makes people think you have nothing to do.