Request: Support for shortcut (.lnk) files

[aziz]

Hi,

It would be great if there was support handling shortcut .Lnk files

Currently SMPlayer v0.6.10 cannot start a file playback from a .lnk shortcut as I can do in other media players such as KMplayer or Splayer. I presume mplayer natively doesn't support this shortcut file input but SMPlayer is an interface front-end to mplayer and so SMPlayer (I think) could potentially translate the shortcut of a file to the absolute path for mplayer to recognize.

I personally drag n drop many of my file(s) to SMPlayer and I attempted to do this with a shortcut .lnk file that was on my desktop. It was a shortcut to an .avi file of mines.

Support for shortcut .lnk should also not limit to files but also should support Folder shortcuts too (e.g. a Shortcut .lnk of a folder that contains media files). I will also trac this feature request on the sourceforge project page.

Please investigate and support.

[EDIT]
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=d ... tid=913576

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Windows 7 sp1, smplayer 0.6.10

[aziz]

Will support for .lnk be added?

(it is definitely a front-end issue that can be implemented)

[aziz]

Right,

So when I double-click on a .lnk file in Windows to launch the media file to SM Player, it is simply Windows doing the parsing work.

However .lnk drag & drop to SM Player is not working

Defiance (2008) Trailer HD - Shortcut.lnk --------->links to my------> C:\Users\Admin\Videos\Defiance (2008) Trailer HD.mp4


.lnk file are commonly created on the Desktop but could be placed anywhere throughout a Windows file system

[aziz]

[rvm]

No, sorry. Still in the todo list.

[aziz]

[rvm]

This should be easy to implement, but I didn't have time | I forgot.

[aziz]

Thank you RVM

I mean no pressure on you.
Please remember to test the .url with both with drag & drop to SM and with Windows "Open with" (smplayer.exe)
I have lots of shortcut links to files in deep folders across different drives so this would be lovely to have in SM.
Would be nice to see it in the next dev build but whenever your ready. Thanks.

[rvm]

In r6023 now it checks for shortcuts in drag&drop events in the main window and playlist.

I don't know if any other change is required.

[aziz]

Thanks I look forward to testing it soon (and report feedback) when a download is available.