[fpc-pascal] Want to create a program launcher for Windows 11, suggestions please.

[Bo Berglund]

On Mon, 8 Sep 2025 09:50:10 -0500, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal
<fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:

> On Sep 8, 2025 at 9:18:42?PM, Bo Berglund via fpc-pascal <
>fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
>
>> I have written a good many Windows appliocations using Lazarus/FreePascal
>> but I
>> have never gone into these Windows internals before...
>>
>> Grateful for any help!
>>
>
>I was curious so I put your question into ChatGPT and got some answers that
>looked interesting. I’ve barely done any Windows development so I don’t
>know the internals but I found ChatGPT to be really good for this kind of
>research.
>
>Sorry that’s a cheap answer :)

I too was using ChatGPT as helper during my conversion to Win11.
When I discovered that the solution that resulted did not work for me and
mentioned this fpc idea for a replacement it came back with a long Lazarus/Fpc
suggestion. :-)

But I thought that asking here would be a safer way...
Before I go further I need to make sure I have a working Lazarus/FPC
installation on my Windows11 machine. In recent years I have done the bulk of my
new coding on Linux platforms...

I have used FpcUpDeluxe the last times I installed on Windows and that gave me
Lazarus 3.4 so I just have to find its launcher. All of my day-to-day programs
were launched from the QuickLaunch toolbar Microsoft has decided to remove...


-- 
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden