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From: MarceepooNu on 17 Mar 2010 00:14
Thank you for your comment, your insight, and your humor.
Your points are well taken.

marc

p.s. I'm constantly amazed (i.e., annoyed) at the number of sloppy errors I
make.


--
MarceepooNu


"Al Dunbar" wrote:

>
>
> "MarceepooNu" <mbh2010(a)aol.com> wrote in message
> news:624CCA11-C7CD-48D6-BBAD-1B58C90BC07D(a)microsoft.com...
> > I agree. One of the reasons for my inquiry is the fact that I developed
> > many
> > scripts before it occurred to me that it might be useful to make a habit
> > of
> > always including such an argument in the calling script.
> >
> > The daunting prospect of having to revise every single script led to me
> > wonder if there wasn't some easier way of getting the info,
>
> But, in order for your many scripts to be able to use whatever technique you
> were able to develop, wouldn't that be another daunting, script revising,
> prospect itself?
>
> > and of verifying
> > the argument, in case somehow the calling script sends the wrong info
> > (presumably due to inadvertent sloppy coding on my part).
>
> If you could write script code that could detect logical errors on the part
> of your code, then you are probably a sophisticated enough scripter to be
> unlikely to make such sloppy errors. ;-)
>
> /Al
>
> >
> > marc
> > --
> > MarceepooNu
> >
> >
> > "Todd Vargo" wrote:
> >
> >> MarceepooNu wrote:
> >> >I would like to code a vbscript ("ActionScript.vbs") in such a way that
> >> >it
> >> > would do X, if ActionScript.vbs were called by "TriggerScriptA.vbs",
> >> > but
> >> > do
> >> > something else if ActionScript.vbs were called by
> >> > "TriggerScriptAB.vbs".
> >> >
> >> > Is there some way by which ActionScript.vbs could identify the
> >> > program/process that called ActionScript.vbs?
> >> >
> >> > If the answer is "yes", that would be useful in many contexts.
> >> >
> >> > For example, it would be useful in the context of Hta programming,
> >> > where
> >> > (I
> >> > think) a button (that calls a vbscript inside the Hta file) cannot send
> >> > arguments to the vbscript sub that the button calls. Thus, each
> >> > button
> >> > has
> >> > to have its own sub. As my Hta files grow in size, the proliferation
> >> > of
> >> > subs
> >> > makes it more difficult to keep track of them, and I worry about ram or
> >> > resource usage being wasted.
> >> >
> >> > By contrast, if a sub (that opens a shell and calls exe files) could
> >> > "smell"
> >> > which button called the sub, I'd need only one sub (that opens a shell
> >> > and
> >> > calls exe files) and it could have a nice alphabetically sorted set of
> >> > Case
> >> > Selects, that would call the right exe files.
> >> >
> >> > Identifying the process would be useful in other contexts too. I have
> >> > a
> >> > growing library of backup scripts that backup files and folders at
> >> > various
> >> > times. I would like the script to be able to know when it was called
> >> > by
> >> > another script, as distinguished from being called by me double
> >> > clicking
> >> > on
> >> > the vbscript in Windows explorer.
> >>
> >> Basically, your query boils down to:
> >> How to determine if a script was double clicked or run by another script?
> >>
> >> The author of a script has the option to provide an argument when calling
> >> another script. Double clicking runs a script without arguments, so if
> >> you
> >> have the Trigger scripts provide their name as an argument when calling
> >> the
> >> ActionScript, the ActionScript could use the Wscript.Arguments object to
> >> see
> >> which TriggerScript, if any, was used.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Todd Vargo
> >> (Post questions to group only. Remove "z" to email personal messages)
> >>
> >> .
> >>
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