This is a long answer, but there’s a lot of ground to cover: it’s also a late reply, but things have changed since some of the replies to this (and similar questions) have been posted on the stack. That sucks like a vacuum cleaner on triple-phase AC, because they were good answers when they were … Read more
You will want to use the WshShell object’s Exec method instead of Run. Then simply read the command line’s output from the standard streams. Try this one: Const WshFinished = 1 Const WshFailed = 2 strCommand = “ping.exe 127.0.0.1” Set WshShell = CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”) Set WshShellExec = WshShell.Exec(strCommand) Select Case WshShellExec.Status Case WshFinished strOutput = WshShellExec.StdOut.ReadAll … Read more
In Windows, an executable is either a console application or a Windows application (or a SFU or Native application, but that doesn’t matter here). The kernel checks a flag in the executable to determine which. When starting using CreateProcess WinAPI function, if it is a console application, the kernel will create a console window for … Read more
Here’s an example (taken from here): Set oShell = CreateObject( “WScript.Shell” ) user=oShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings(“%UserName%”) comp=oShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings(“%ComputerName%”) WScript.Echo user & ” ” & comp
RMDIR or RD if you are using the classic Command Prompt (cmd.exe): rd /s /q “path” RMDIR [/S] [/Q] [drive:]path RD [/S] [/Q] [drive:]path /S Removes all directories and files in the specified directory in addition to the directory itself. Used to remove a directory tree. /Q Quiet mode, do not ask if ok to … Read more
Short answer: You can’t. At least not without writing a COM wrapper for the relevant Windows API calls. Can’t you just use AppActivate and check the result? Set oShell = CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”) If oShell.AppActivate “Untitled – Notepad” Then oShell.SendKeys “Hello, world!” End If Long answer: To get the active window title, you need to call the … Read more
Try this one, it helped me to solve similar problem with IE once: Set oIE = CreateObject(“InternetExplorer.application”) oIE.Visible = True oIE.navigate (“http://technopedia.com”) Do While oIE.ReadyState = 4: WScript.Sleep 100: Loop Do While oIE.ReadyState <> 4: WScript.Sleep 100: Loop ‘ example ref to DOM MsgBox oIE.Document.GetElementsByTagName(“div”).Length UPD: Drilling down IE events I found that IE_DocumentComplete is … Read more
The CLSID for the Chakra Javascript engine installed with IE9 is {16d51579-a30b-4c8b-a276-0ff4dc41e755}. The InProcServer32 is %windir%\System32\jscript9.dll . There is no ProgId that I could find. That’s a bit odd; normally paired ProgId and CLSID entries refer to each other. For a given COM object, the ProgId key in the registry has a subkey called CLSID, … Read more
Try conventional method: Set objIE = CreateObject(“InternetExplorer.Application”) objIE.Visible = True objIE.Navigate “https://www.yahoo.com/” Do While objIE.ReadyState <> 4 WScript.Sleep 10 Loop ‘ your code here ‘ … UPD: this one should check for errors: Set objIE = CreateObject(“InternetExplorer.Application”) objIE.Visible = True objIE.Navigate “https://www.yahoo.com/” On Error Resume Next Do If objIE.ReadyState = 4 Then If Err = … Read more
You can use WScript.Arguments to access the arguments passed to your script. Calling the script: cscript.exe test.vbs “C:\temp\” Inside your script: Set File = FSO.OpenTextFile(WScript.Arguments(0) &”\test.txt”, 2, True) Don’t forget to check if there actually has been an argument passed to your script. You can do so by checking the Count property: if WScript.Arguments.Count = … Read more