[THIN] Re: VBScripts
- From: Martin Stephenson <martin.stephenson@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 10:32:47 +1000
And that would be the Monad Shell (MSH). There an interesting PPT
presentation at:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/8/f/18f8cee2-0b64-41f2-893d-a6f2295b40c8/TW04038_WINHEC2004.ppt
Looks real promising. I might even download the Beta one of these days...
Cheers,
Martin.
On 4/21/05, Joe Shonk <joe.shonk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It's all good until something better comes out.
>
> Joe
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Martin Stephenson
> Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 3:25 PM
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: VBScripts
>
> I thought someone would ask me to back up my claim. I was going to
> say that you couldnt use any WMI functions in Kixtart but I thought I
> should read the manual of the latest release first and sure enough, I
> discovered you can call WMI functions. Not that I have tried this in
> Kixtart though. I first used Kixtart in the mid 90's on a Lan Manager
> site but by the late 90's had discovered VBScript, which was at the
> time streets ahead of Kixtart. (At the time I also recall there was a
> bug with the InGroup function of Kixtart that was causing me real
> headaches) Now having browsed the Manual for Kixtart version 4.22 I
> can see that it has come a long way since then.
>
> So after browsing the Kixtart Manual and my O'Reilly's VBscript
> manual, I have come up with a very short list of functions available
> in VBScript which are not (AFAIK) available in Kixtart.
>
> InputBox - displays a dialog box and requests a users input, not just
> yes or no. Quite handy really.
>
> GetTempName - Returns a string containing a valid Windows temporary
> filename. I've used this to generate a temporary data folder that you
> know will not already exist, which is quite handy.
>
> IsArray - Indicates whether a variable is an Array.
>
> Mathematical Functions
> Log, Sgn, Sin, Sqr, Tan - well I have never used these myself and
> there probably not commonly used in VBScript. I suspect
> mathematicians use a language with a far greater range of math
> functions.
>
> There are other advantages to VBScript for instance the code is easily
> ported to and from Visual Basic (not sure about VB.net though) and
> there is a huge number of VB programmers and free source code to tap
> into.
>
> As I dont want to start a religious war here, if either product works
> for you, then by all means stick with it.
>
> Cheers,
> Martin.
>
> On 4/20/05, Braebaum, Neil <Neil.Braebaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Martin Stephenson
> > > Sent: 19 April 2005 22:53
> > > To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Subject: [THIN] Re: VBScripts
> > >
> > > I agree Kixtart is definitely easier to use to write reg
> > > keys, particularily binary values but then again theres
> > > things you can do in VBscript that you cant do so easily in Kixtart.
> >
> > OK, now you've said that, give an example.
> >
> > > I posted the URL so that those who don't already know how to
> > > write the code have a good reference site. No slander was
> > > intended for those who already know how to write the code.
> >
> > I think all Joe meant was that citing that link was perhaps slight
> > indicative that you hadn't really read what he was asking.
> >
> > Neil
> >
> >
> >
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