Zugg Software :: View topic - Help with Scripting environment (VBScript)

Beginner Joined: 18 Sep 2006 Posts: 29

I'm hoping that someone can provide an example of, or point me to an existing page/topic of using the new scripting environment feature. Ideally this would be in VBScript, though I can probably port it from another language if necessary. Specifically, what I'm looking for is:

Something like this is probably already available somewhere, so my apologies, but my own search hasn't turned up anything.

Thanks much,
G

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

I do believe the only things exposed right now are variables.

Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 9:50 pm

I thought I'd replied to this thread. Obviously it didn't send.

Matt is right - the only part of CMUD that's exposed via the WSH is variables. Commands and functions can't be used yet - this'll probably change in the next version. The objects will be totally different when Lua is added. For now, this, along with the added complexity, makes COM a much more obvious choice for this sort of problem. CMUD's exposes more to the COM interface than it does to its own scripting interface, and COM already lets you do many things like database accesses. If you have your heart set on using VBScript inside CMUD, though, I'm sure someone can help.

Newbie Joined: 25 Apr 2007 Posts: 8

Since this thread is about the same subject, I figured it would be wiser to ask my question here. If this is not how you do things around here, I apologize.

Has there been any change in the availability of commands and functions for using VBscript in the updates since 2007?

Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 6:24 pm

The preferred thing is to start a new topic, and you can reference an old topic if you like.

But to answer my question, the have been changes to the interface beyond that which would have been made available by an updated WSH (Windows Scripting Host) from Microsoft.

Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 5:52 pm

Actually, you *can* access more than just variables via VBScript. In the WSH scripting languages, you have access to all of the COM-based scripting. For example, you can use GetAlias to get an alias, CMUDCommand to execute a command, etc. See the page: http://www.zuggsoft.com/page.php?file=zmud/comserve.htm for the COM API and just replace occurrences of zMUD with CMUD (or maybe lowercase cmud, I forget). Both the main application class and the session class are added to the WSH name space.