Requested Expansion of environment variables during runtime

[mesiek]

The feature that I'd like to be added is the expansion of custom environment variables in lnk shortcuts during runtime.

As an example, let's assume we have two image files in following locations:

c:\windows\photo0001.jpg
g:\prv\photos\photo0002.jpg

In a separate working dir we have two shortcuts (.lnk) to those images.

c:\shortcuts\photo001.lnk -> Target: %SYSTEMROOT%\photo0001.jpg
c:\shortcuts\photo002.lnk -> Target: %MYPHOTOSDRIVE%:\prv\photos\photo0002.jpg

Below is the batch script that sets "MYPHOTOSDRIVE" variable ("SYSTEMROOT" is built into Windows by default) and runs IrfanView with proper parameters. Let's say we have it in the same directory as shortcuts:

c:\shortcuts\script.cmd

script.cmd code:

@echo off
if /i "%PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE%" equ "AMD64" (
  set IRFANPATH="%ProgramFiles(x86)%\IrfanView\i_view32.exe"
) else (
  set IRFANPATH="%ProgramFiles%\IrfanView\i_view32.exe"
)

set MYPHOTOSDRIVE=%cd:~0,1%
echo.Photo drive: %MYPHOTOSDRIVE%
echo.System root: %SYSTEMROOT%

%IRFANPATH% c:\shortcuts\photo001.lnk
%IRFANPATH% c:\shortcuts\photo002.lnk

I'd expect that in this case two environment variables from .lnk files would be expanded to their values and two images would be shown, one after another. It would be awesome if it could also apply to slideshows (here source folder contains .lnk files):

%IRFANPATH% /slideshow=c:\shortcuts\

Would it be possible to include such enhancement in IrfanView?

Thank you for your time!

[impdf]

Irfanview does not resolve shortcuts.
If an application asks the system to resolve the link then the systems also replaces variables.
There is nothing special you should do with the final filename in this case.