Visual Studio Installer shortcuts

I am working on a VB-6 project and am experiencing the following problem using visual studio installer (VSI) to create an MSI installer package, I appreciate any assistance you could offer.

My VB program accesses txt files that are in the same dir. as my prg.

VSI creates my desktop shortcut, but the advertized shortcut makes my program think the curdir$("") is the desktop!

I tried using ORCA to modify my shortcuts to un-advertized
ie. under target...... [disableadvshortcuts]_MainFeature
under Arguments "[TARGETDIR]MyProg.exe"
under WkDir AppPath

My regular shortcut ends up with an extra \ at the end of the path, doesn't work.


I have also tried using the FileSystemObject currentdir$ = fsfolder.GetAbsolutePathName("") with the same results!

My advertized shortcut on my desktop or in my ProgramFileFolder always makes my program think that THEY are the current path.

I even tried to make a Adv shortcut point to an Adv shortcut in my folder.

Can you offer any suggestions?

Stuck in Mississippi, Darryl

Are you sure you are putting shortcuts, or the actual file... could go either way.
If you select the desktop folder in the filesystembrowser during the install build, right click on the right hand pane and select "create new shortcut". If you you are right clicking on the desktop folder and selecting add file then the current directory would be the desktop.
Hope this helps... if not, email the installer project and I will see if I can figure out what is going wrong....

I will be listening for the cure too, I usually have the same problem