Run vb script from web page. 1

[Jouster]

I posted this on the HTML forum, but thought i would put it here also to see if I could get some answers...


What I would like to do is to be able to have the user click on a button and then I will run a script to send information to a barcode scanner connected to the user's PC (window.print won't work). The script would be a .vbs preferably.

This would be running on an intranet here at work.

If anyone has a better idea, I'm open at this point.

 

[mrmovie]

does this script need to be run the client?

WshShell.Run "vbscreipt.vbs

 

[Jouster]

<<does this script need to be run the client?>>
I'm not sure, but i think it does need to.


<<WshShell.Run "vbscreipt.vbs">>
I tired this, but i get an error saying it can't create the active x object....

 

[mrmovie]

Set WshShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")

this code wont work i dont think, the second part of it needs to be slightly different i think, unless you are running it client side, there have been a few posts on this sort of thing but i cant recall the syntax, perhaps you can find it with a search or one of my estemed forum members can help us out of a jam

 

[PHV]

Have a look at hta

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[Jouster]

After doing some more searching this is what i came up with:

This code goes in the head section:

<script language="vbscript">
Public Sub RunScript()
Set objWSH = CreateObject("WSCript.Shell")
strCMD = "c:\net.vbs"
objWSH.Run(strCMD)
Set objWSH = Nothing
End Sub
</script>


THis code goes in the Body section:

<FORM NAME="Form1">
<INPUT TYPE=BUTTON OnClick="RunScript" VALUE="Disable">
</FORM>

I had to change the security properties of the browser to allow this to work also.

Thanks,
-J

 

[PHV]

I had to change the security properties of the browser
Seems you haven't followed my advice ...

 

[Jouster]

Sorry PHV, wasn't sure what hta was... A little more explanation may help. Someone told me to use FF on another forum. Didn't really know what that was either.

 

[PHV]

Have a look here:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/hubs/htas.mspx

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