Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.
Re: Windows Scripting Host - What is it?
Author: Brent Simmons Posted: 5/26/1999; 11:20:35 AM Topic: Windows Scripting Host - What is it? Msg #: 6746 (In response to 6723) Prev/Next: 6745 / 6747
Windows Script Host (WSH) allows you to write double-clickable scripts (files on your hard drive) in VBScript or JScript or PerlScript (etc.).It builds on Active Scripting, which is sort of like OSA for Windows -- it allows for multiple languages.
It builds on COM -- COM is sort of like Apple events, but more object-oriented. Scripts communicate with other applications and components by instantiating COM objects. Since Frontier is a COM server, you can write a VBScript script that calls into Frontier, for instance.
It's also like the Scriptable Finder -- it adds new COM objects for scripting the Windows shell and file system.
Here's how to work with WSH in Frontier:
http://frontier.userland.com/tree$2.5.3.3
You can call VBScript, JScript, and PerlScript scripts from within Frontier.
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