Vista - Maybe I should try a different approach

Is is possible to simply display a message box with NO BUTTONS for the
entire time my script is running, then have it close when my script is done
and maybe have some dots keep adding to the text message until the script is
fully completed?

I am a complete newbie and any help would be great!

James

"James" <donotreply@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:ejVEVEgFKHA.1492@xxxxxxvbscript itself has exactly and only two ways to display information: MSGBOX
and INPUTBOX, and the only capabilities these have are the few capabilities
noted in the documentation. While either is active the script is waiting for
input, so neither could be realistically used for a progress bar.

As for a message box with no buttons, you can create whatever you want using
html or hta. The trick is for your script to interact with that IE instance,
for example, to close it when the script is about to exit. You also need to
ensure that it will disappear in the event that your script is terminated by
the user or errors out.

But perhaps the simplest approach for a newbie would be to run your script
using cscript, and use the console window as your progress bar, writing to
it with wscript.echo.

The question is, how important is it that this be impressive and how
important is it that it just works?

/Al

Doesn't need to be impressive at all...just needs to show that something is
happening and have and end to notify it is done...

James

"Al Dunbar" <alandrub@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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"James" <donotreply@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:et1S1TgFKHA.4732@xxxxxxIf you want it to look pretty, have wscript interact with IE like the
example I listed in response to your other thread.
If you want quick and easy, use cscript to run with echo commands.
wscript.exe should do exactly the same thing as cscript.exe except
wscript.exe expects you to create GUI objects for user interaction and
cscript.exe displays the old black window.
If you just double click a .VBS file to execute, by default Windows wants to
use wscript.exe.

If that is all, the simplest approach would be to run your script with
cscript.exe, and use wscript.echo liberally to indicate progress. You could
start it from a batch file with the same name and in the same folder as the
script and containing this command:

cscript.exe //nologo "%~dpn0.vbs

When the script terminates, the window will disappear. If the script used
MSGBOX or INPUTBOX they would behave exactly as they do when run using
wscript.exe. You might, for example, include the following at the end of
your script:

MSGBOX "Processing completed. Thanks for your patience"
wscript.quit


/Al


"James" <donotreply@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:et1S1TgFKHA.4732@xxxxxx

You've asked the ame question in 3 different
posts and received pretty much all of the
possible answers more than once. The facts
won't change by multi-posting. You just fill up
the newsgroup and waste people's time.

doneis

"James" <donotreply@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:ejVEVEgFKHA.1492@xxxxxxI have an example VScript program linked here that uses IE to display an
interactive message form to the user that indicates progress:

http://www.rlmueller.net/IE%20Display.htm

The trick is that the program needs some way to monitor progress. In the
example, I simply iterate a few times with a delay to similate a time
consuming process. I've used this technique a few times in programs that
take a long time. For example, this VBScript program (two actually)
inventories all computers in the domain:

http://www.rlmueller.net/Inventory.htm

It must connect to each with WMI and uses several classes to collect
information, so it can take awhile. The programs uses Sub InitIE to
initialize an IE box, and Sub MsgIE to update the text in the box. In this
case the name of the computer is changed in the box as the program moves
from one machine to the next. If the program hangs, the user can tell. If
the computer name keeps changing, the user knows to be patient. You may be
able to use these methods if your program has some way to monitor progress.

--
Richard Mueller
MVP Directory Services
Hilltop Lab - http://www.rlmueller.net
--

You are right about that Mayayana. The reason being, is that nothing is
really accomplishing what I want. I think I will take a stab at an idea I
am having that may do what I am thinking. Maybe something with a
wshshell.popup, a do until loop, and the timeout value. I will post when
done. Take care.

James

"mayayana" <mayaXXyana@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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"mr_unreliable" <kindlyReplyToNewsgroup@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OlXTb8rFKHA.2832@xxxxxxOE by default shows that there is a .vbs file attached but won't let me
execute it and oddly won't even let me save it. The txt works.