experience with VBScript on Vista needed

[Jim Bufalini]

Hi Phil,

> Have you tried "putting" tVBS just before the "do" to see what the VB
> script looks like? 

No, but I had put in a breakpoint. ;-) The script looked fine. And, as I
said, suspecting line endings, I tried CRLF, etc.

> 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?

No, it's on, but this script doesn't write to disk and is pretty innocuous
(it just brings IE to front). I actually started testing a third party DLL
written in VB that has many, many methods that I wanted to experiment with
and the manufacturer had given examples in calling it from vbscript. The
examples run from disk but when I tried from Rev 3.5 I got the execution
error. So, I backed through different versions of Rev and then decided to
try something basic like this two line script that doesn't use a DLL's
methods.

Just now, to eliminate the UAC factor, I moved the stack (which is a new
stack with one button with this script in it) to XP SP2. There is a UAC on
XP SP2, but I have never seen it interfere with anything. Ran under Rev 3.5.
Same error.

The complete code (double spaced so it hopefully doesn't all run into one
line) is:

ON mouseUp pMouseBtnNo

    VBS_AppActivate "Internet Explorer"

END mouseUp

----------

ON VBS_AppActivate pTitle 
    local tVBS, tResult  
    -----

    put format("set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject(\"WScript.Shell\")")
into tVBS 

    put tVBS & CR & format("WshShell.AppActivate \"Internet Explorer\")")  &
CR into tVBS -- Hardcoded 

    breakpoint 

    do tVBS as "VBScript" 

    put the result into tResult 
    
    IF tResult <> "" THEN put "Error:" && tResult  

END VBS_AppActivate

tResult = *Error: execution error*


Aloha from Hawaii,

Jim Bufalini