Re: I am making MORE!!! prgress with GenX!!!!

The thing about learning script is this:  you have to distinguish =
between the language features of VB/JScript, the features exposed by the =
hosting environment, and the features available to you in COM objects.

Unfortunately, most of the docs and sample code you'll find won't do =
much to help make that distinction clear...

In this case, GenX is the script host (not IE, not WSH).  But we've =
tried to expose an object model that will be familiar to users of both =
IE and WSH...  think:  wizard.alert('hi') instead of window.alert('hi').

And you can get to a lot of WSH functionality, for example, via =
JScript's "new ActiveXObject" keyword (or VBS's CreateObject function).  =
Here's how to get at the environment vars:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/script56/html/wsobjwshenvironment=
.asp

Other popular COM objects, useful in GenX wizards: =20
    Scripting.FileSystemObject
    Microsoft.XMLDOM
    TLI.tliApplication

-S


----- Original Message -----=20
From: "David O. Hansen" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 08:03
Subject: I am making MORE!!! prgress with GenX!!!!


> Other GenX Users
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> First, thanks very, very much to Chris and Shawn for the quick =
response
> to my first message a couple of days ago.
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> I have made a lot of progress, but I still working on my commandline
> Genx code generator. I will probably get to task of making it a a
> Wizard this weekend, I hope. Based on the advice from Chris and Shawn, =
I
> expect that to be fairly straightforward.
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> While working on the command line code I ran into a couple of =
problems.
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> First, is there a way to put up a message box from JScript while =
running
> in XCode?
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> And, second, is there a way to get environment variables into GenX?
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> The issue with both of these may be the same. I couldn't get a WScript
> object running in XCode.
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> I will certainly appreciate any advice on either of these.
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> And, thanks again for the help earlier.
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> David O. Hansen
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