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Translating WSH sample
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27/07/2001 10:29:24
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
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Visual FoxPro
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Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
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00536302
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>>>>Yes, thank you, this version works. Did I understand correctly, that every reference to WScript (at the beginning of the line) in the samples has to be converted to an Windows-API call?
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>>>Yes, I have it found at "Q259103 - HOWTO: Use the Windows Scripting Host to Automate an Application". It seems to be that Wscript object accesible only inside the Windows Script Host and not creatable by OLE.
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>>Thanks, again. Now, having to invoke the WinAPI for different functions looks too complicated to me. It seems to me I should rather a) Run scripts directly (for instance, I can create a file with Visual FoxPro - copy the samples, as is, for a start - and run it), or b) Study the WinAPI, and run it without the W. Scripting Host.
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>>Hilmar.
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>I would use the integrated approach when available. WSH, ADSI, WMI, etc. are great COM-based wrappers to the WinAPI. A lot of the WinAPI functionality that would require memory management and structure manipulation has been incorprated into those packages with an easy VFP friendly interface.
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>Regards.

Please, what does "ADSI" and "WMI" mean?

Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
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