VBScript - how to load one script as a library into another

[johnlopez2000]

Colleagues,

this may be a dumb questions, but I am a relative newbie to VBScript.

In TCL/TK I can load a "library" script into another script via source or other commands. How can I do the same with VBScript, where one script may only contain function calls that I want to commonize to a whole host of other scripts?

Can you do modules or class libraries like in regular VB?

Can I create a DLL and then load it and call it's functions?

I would prefer to just load one script from another, but I'd like to know how to do all 3 approaches.

THANKS!


John Lopez
Enterprise PDM Architect
john.l.lopez@goodrich.com

 

[PHV]

Perhaps some info here ?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/script56/html/c52b52d3-e11d-49f1-96c8-69b3c9ce8ade.asp

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[EBGreen]

There are a couple of options from the simple to the complex. The easiest is to simply read the entire include file into a variable and then use the ExecuteGlobal function to execute the included code. Voila...your functions are now available for use. The more complex yet elegant way is to create a .WSC file with the functions that you want to make common built into a class as methods. You can then register the class as a COM object and instantiate it just like any other COM object in your scripts.

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[johnlopez2000]

Guys - thanks very much. Will try both methods!

Appreciate your help.

John


John Lopez
Enterprise PDM Architect
john.l.lopez@goodrich.com