experience with VBScript on Vista needed

[Phil Davis]

Hi Jim,

Have you tried "putting" tVBS just before the "do" to see what the VB 
script looks like? You might see some obvious thing malformed. Or is it 
possible there's a permissions issue? Stranger things have happened. I 
just automatically suspect permissions if the script is correct. Is your 
UAC turned off?

Phil Davis



Jim Bufalini wrote:
> Ken Ray wrote:
>  
>   
>> Here's how it would be done in Rev 2.9+:
>>
>> on VBS_AppActivate pTitle
>>   put format("set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject(\"WScript.Shell\")")
>> into
>> tVBS
>>   put tVBS & cr & "WshShell.AppActivate" && quote & pTitle & quote into
>> tVBS
>>   put tVBS & cr & "result = Err.number" into tVBS
>>   do tVBS as "VBScript"
>>   put the result into tResult
>>   if there is a file tVBSPath then
>>     send "delete file" && quote & tVBSPath & quote to me in 1 second
>>   end if
>>   if tResult <> "" then return "Error: " & tResult
>> end VBS_AppActivate
>>     
>
> Hi Ken,
>
> After you gave this answer to Tiemo about a week or so ago, I decided to
> play with running some vbscript out of rev 2.9+. The only thing I get is
> "execution error." I tried your above script and get the error and then
> reduced it down to two hard coded lines:
>
> put format("set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject(\"WScript.Shell\")") into
> tVBS
> put tVBS & CR & format("WshShell.AppActivate \"Internet Explorer\")") into
> tVBS
> do tVBS as "VBScript"
>
> I tried CRLF instead of CR (thinking maybe it was a line ending issue), put
> one at the end of the second line, etc. No matter what I do I get the
> execution error. IE is running and, of course, clicking on a file with these
> same two lines and .vbs extension runs without error and brings IE to front.
>
>
> What's the trick? ;-) Testing on Vista.
>
> Aloha from Hawaii,
>
> Jim Bufalini

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