Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

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Re: Status report on 6.0 and 5.1.5

Author:	Brent Simmons
Posted:	12/4/1998; 10:42:05 AM
Topic:	Search engine comments?
Msg #:	793 (In response to 773)
Prev/Next:	792 / 794

The plan is to use VBScript, Jscript, PerlScript -- any Active Scripting Engine -- as our COM clients.

You'll be able to send parameters from Frontier to a script and get back a result. Frontier will execute the script by passing it to the Microsoft Script Control, a DLL they provide free from their Scripting site:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/scripting/

You'll be able to edit your VBScript scripts in a script editor window if you want -- but at least at first you'll need to call a glue script to execute these scripts, rather than call a script directly. The syntax will be somewhat like the callScript verb.

I think this will be very powerful -- rather than try to build a complete set of COM client verbs in Frontier's kernel, it's better to connect to the platform's already well-developed COM scripting languages.

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