In an earlier post, I showed you how to make your scripts talk back. Well, you can also use the SAPI object to “speak” a wav file. Imagine having a script play a sound when it finishes a long query…
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A few days ago I showed how to call an Open File dialog box. I promised to show you how to let a user specify a filename and path by browsing using the File dialog box. This is much better…
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As you develop more and more scripts, you’re bound to find yourself working with files. Often, the easiest thing to do is to hard code a filename that we want to open and use. Or we may provide a run…
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I’ve been toying around with text to speech in scripts both in VBScript and PowerShell. I thought I’d share some thoughts and techniques for working with these objects. I’m still trying to find a truly practical need for this in…
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So here you have it from the horse’s mouth on the future of VBScript: This week at Microsoft IT Forum in Barcelona, Jeffery Snover (architect of Windows PowerShell) said that VBScript is “feature complete,” meaning it wouldn’t be developed any…
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I’ve seen a number of posts on a variety of forums from new and beginning scripters. Typically the question is how to achieve a certain task, but it got me thinking about this from another angle: what is the best…
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We’ve updated the “Essentials” page on ScriptingAnswers.com (http://www.scriptinganswers.com/essentials.asp) to include Essentials for both VBScript and Windows PowerShell. “Essentials” are short scripts that demonstrate how to do particular things in a script, such as enumerating through objects, bringing up a debug…
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As you may know, PrimalScript 4.0 used an online-unlocktechnique, meaning that PrimalScript needed to communicate with a SAPIENTechnologies server in order to register itself and unlock the trial. Thissystem was put into place to help discourage software piracy, which costsSAPIEN…
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We’ve just completed a migration of our www.SAPIEN.com Web site to a new softwareplatform. This new platform provides faster performance, more flexible (andcross-browser-compatible) support forums, and uses our SAPIENPASS centralauthentication system. The SAPIENPASS system is now accepted onScriptingAnswers.com, SAPIEN.com, and…
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