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<title>Chatty Help - Create Shortcut (add Launch Options/Icon)</title>
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<div id="backlink"><a href="help.html">Back to main help page</a></div>
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<h1><a name="top">Create Shortcut (add Launch Options/Icon)</a></h1>
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<p>This applies to Windows 7, and probably other Windows versions. The info
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can probably also be applied to other OS with some adjustments.</p>
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<p>You can create a shortcut for Chatty, which has some potential advantages (depending on what you need):</p>
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<ul>
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<li>It may allow you to start Chatty even if you otherwise have issues
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with that.</li>
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<li>You can give Chatty
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<a href="help.html#launch">launch options</a>, like
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<code>-cd</code> or <code>-d</code> to use a different
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<a href="help-guide_folders.html">settings directory</a>.</li>
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<li>You can attach Chatty to the taskbar.</li>
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<li>You can give the shortcut the Chatty icon, to replace the Java icon
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without changing it for all Java programs.</li>
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</ul>
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<p><em>Note:</em> If you used the installer a shortcut may already have been
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created for you.</p>
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<h2>Create shortcut (JAR-Version)</h2>
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<p>Create a shortcut to Java to start Chatty (for this example the
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<code>Chatty.jar</code> is located in <code>D:\Chatty\</code>):</p>
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<h3>First way</h3>
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<ul>
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<li>Right-click in the folder you want to create the shortcut in, choose
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<code>New - Shortcut</code> from the context menu. Enter
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<code>javaw -jar "D:\Chatty\Chatty.jar"</code> as location of the
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item (adjust the path to where <code>Chatty.jar</code> is located
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for you).</li>
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<li>Go to the next page and enter a name for the shortcut and finish
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creating the shorcut.</li>
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<li>Right-click on the newly created shortcut and choose
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<code>Properties</code> from the context menu. Make sure that under
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<code>Shortcut</code> the <code>Start in</code> points to the folder
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that the <code>Chatty.jar</code> is in (otherwise some stuff might
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not work).</li>
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</ul>
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<h3>Second way</h3>
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<ul>
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<li>Right-click on the <code>Chatty.jar</code> and drag it to an open
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area in the folder, then let go to open the context menu, choose the option to create a shortcut.</li>
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<li>Right-click on the newly created shortcut and choose
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<code>Properties</code> from the context menu. In the
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<code>Target</code> field, it should have the path to the
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<code>Chatty.jar</code>. Before that add: <code>javaw -jar </code>,
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so that in total it reads for example (of course the path to the
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<code>Chatty.jar</code> might be different for you):
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<code>javaw -jar "D:\Chatty\Chatty.jar"</code></li>
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</ul>
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<p>The <code>javaw</code> part might automatically be changed into the full path
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to the <code>javaw.exe</code> when you save the shortcut.</p>
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<h2>Create shortcut (Standalone Version)</h2>
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<p>For the Standalone Version you can use the same methods as detailed above
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(for example drag and release with the right mousebutton and choose the option to create shortcut),
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except that it simply starts the <code>Chatty.exe</code> (without <code>javaw</code>), for example:
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<code>"D:\Chatty\Chatty.exe"</code></p>
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<h2>Editing shortcut</h2>
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<p>Add launch options or icon:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Right-click on the newly created shortcut and choose
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<code>Properties</code> from the context menu, then go to the
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<code>Shortcut</code> tab.</li>
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<li>Add any <a href="help.html#launch">launch options</a> you want to
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use with Chatty after the path to Chatty. For example:
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<ul>
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<li><code>javaw -jar "D:\Chatty\Chatty.jar" -cd</code> (JAR-Version)</li>
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<li><code>"D:\Chatty\Chatty.exe" -cd</code> (Standalone)</li>
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</ul>
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For the Standalone Version you can alternatively specify launch
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options in the <a href="help-standalone.html#cfg-launch">Chatty.cfg</a>.
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</li>
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<li>Click <code>Change Icon..</code> and then <code>Browse..</code> to
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select an item to use for the Shortcut from your harddrive.
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(<a href="https://chatty.github.io/Chatty.ico">Download Chatty icon
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as <code>.ico</code> file</a>, right-click and
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<code>Save target as..</code>)</li>
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</ul>
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<h2>Use shortcut</h2>
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<p>You can then start Chatty by using this shortcut or you can drag it to the
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taskbar to attach it to it.</p>
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</body>
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