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From: David Bray "david - at - brayworth dot com dot on 18 Jul 2008 23:44 To give VBSCript an Interface you use an hta Using CreateObject (in Visual Basic for instance) is it possible to embed a HTA - like you can with a Webbrowser Object - or is HTA not the way to do this I want to script on the machine from within an application with a web browser like rendering (and maintain control of the object)
From: mayayana on 19 Jul 2008 09:02 By "maintain control" you mean that the code is not accessible/editable by the people using your tool? Then why not just use VB? A webpage can only render a poor facsimile of the GUI options you can get in compiled software. If you really need to present a webpage for some reason, you probably can't entirely hide the source code. You could maybe do something like save the webpage as a resource in your EXE, write it to the TEMP folder at startup, then open it in your WB control and delete the file in TEMP. Either way, an HTA is almost identical to a webpage. It IS a webpage, in an IE browser window (which is the same as a WB control), but in the case of an HTA the browser window is wrapped and managed by mshta.exe. So an HTA is not something you can create. It's just the functionality of mshta.exe. The main difference between hta and html is just that an HTA has no security other than the requirement that it be local. It may be possible to use a WB in VB and bypass all security by doing whatever mshta.exe does, but I don't know of any documentation about that. > To give VBSCript an Interface you use an hta > > Using CreateObject (in Visual Basic for instance) is it possible to > embed a HTA - like you can with a Webbrowser Object - or is HTA not the > way to do this > > I want to script on the machine from within an application with a web > browser like rendering (and maintain control of the object)
From: mr_unreliable on 19 Jul 2008 13:03 David Bray wrote: > I want to script on the machine from within an application with a web > browser like rendering (and maintain control of the object) hi David, Microsoft also offers the "Microsoft Script Control" -- which may be found on the ms scripting website. Er wait, it is now called the: "Windows Script Control". The Script Control is intended to be embedded in some other app (like a vb app), and allow for scripting INSIDE the app. It is generally used in situations where the app provides the basic framework (business or engineering model), but where the user needs to provide input of a sort that goes beyond simply entering numbers, (e.g., entering equations or supplemental logic). If interested, you can find the script control here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=D7E31492-2595-49E6-8C02-1426FEC693AC&displaylang=en cheers, jw ____________________________________________________________ You got questions? WE GOT ANSWERS!!! ..(but, no guarantee the answers will be applicable to the questions)
From: David Bray "david - at - brayworth dot com dot on 20 Jul 2008 03:27 Thanks Mayayana It's the last minute scripting I want access to, but I need the interface. This is mainly a custom reporting function - I can/do write hta where I am on site and need a report I script a quick report and link it to the menu system of the app - but the app looses control over it from an interface point of view - I'd like a bit of modality security is not an issue - I don't care about the source etc being visible - Internet explorer doesn't allow access to the file system (of course) - the HTA's are perfect programatically, but they don't fit aesthetically mayayana wrote: > By "maintain control" you mean that the code > is not accessible/editable by the people using > your tool? Then why not just use VB? A webpage > can only render a poor facsimile of the GUI options > you can get in compiled software. > > If you really need to present a webpage for some > reason, you probably can't entirely hide the source > code. You could maybe do something like save the > webpage as a resource in your EXE, write it to the > TEMP folder at startup, then open it in your WB control > and delete the file in TEMP. > > Either way, an HTA is almost identical to a webpage. > It IS a webpage, in an IE browser window (which is the > same as a WB control), but in the case of an HTA the > browser window is wrapped and managed by mshta.exe. > So an HTA is not something you can create. It's just > the functionality of mshta.exe. The main difference between > hta and html is just that an HTA has no security other than > the requirement that it be local. It may be possible to use a > WB in VB and bypass all security by doing whatever mshta.exe > does, but I don't know of any documentation about that. > > >> To give VBSCript an Interface you use an hta >> >> Using CreateObject (in Visual Basic for instance) is it possible to >> embed a HTA - like you can with a Webbrowser Object - or is HTA not the >> way to do this >> >> I want to script on the machine from within an application with a web >> browser like rendering (and maintain control of the object) > >
From: mayayana on 20 Jul 2008 11:24
I'm not sure I really understand what you need, but it sounds like an ActiveX DLL or EXE might be the thing. You could script an ActiveX EXE, have events, etc. But it might be a lot of work to build the GUI and to write the COM methods you'd need. > Thanks Mayayana > > It's the last minute scripting I want access to, but I need the interface. > > This is mainly a custom reporting function - I can/do write > hta where I am on site and need a report > I script a quick report and link it to the menu system of the app > - but the app looses control over it from an interface point of > view - I'd like a bit of modality > > security is not an issue - I don't care about the source etc being > visible - Internet explorer doesn't allow access to the file system (of > course) - the HTA's are perfect programatically, but they don't fit > aesthetically > > mayayana wrote: > > By "maintain control" you mean that the code > > is not accessible/editable by the people using > > your tool? Then why not just use VB? A webpage > > can only render a poor facsimile of the GUI options > > you can get in compiled software. > > > > If you really need to present a webpage for some > > reason, you probably can't entirely hide the source > > code. You could maybe do something like save the > > webpage as a resource in your EXE, write it to the > > TEMP folder at startup, then open it in your WB control > > and delete the file in TEMP. > > > > Either way, an HTA is almost identical to a webpage. > > It IS a webpage, in an IE browser window (which is the > > same as a WB control), but in the case of an HTA the > > browser window is wrapped and managed by mshta.exe. > > So an HTA is not something you can create. It's just > > the functionality of mshta.exe. The main difference between > > hta and html is just that an HTA has no security other than > > the requirement that it be local. It may be possible to use a > > WB in VB and bypass all security by doing whatever mshta.exe > > does, but I don't know of any documentation about that. > > > > > >> To give VBSCript an Interface you use an hta > >> > >> Using CreateObject (in Visual Basic for instance) is it possible to > >> embed a HTA - like you can with a Webbrowser Object - or is HTA not the > >> way to do this > >> > >> I want to script on the machine from within an application with a web > >> browser like rendering (and maintain control of the object) > > > > |