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June 11, 2002

Scripting Solutions with WSH and COM: Extending WSH with ActiveX Controls


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GooeyScript lets you create versatile form dialog boxes (i.e., forms) that can include various form components (e.g., customized backgrounds, buttons, check boxes, combo boxes, progress bars, radio buttons) that full-blown applications require. In addition, GooeyScript lets you create forms that can pause a script to trap events that happen on the form and pass those events to the script.

When you download the GooeyScript .zip file, you must install the demo ActiveX control—gooeyscriptdemo.exe—and the VB 6.0 runtime DLLs on each client that will use GooeyScript before you begin scripting with this tool. GooeyScript comes with an excellent VBScript script that helps you use GooeyScript. In addition, the Woodchop Software Web site provides the full interface definition.

Creating Event-Driven Forms
For an overview of what you can do with GooeyScript, let's create some sample forms. I use Windows XP and Windows 2000 in the following examples, but the same principles apply to Windows Me and Windows 9x. . . .


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