WSH on Windows CE   

It seems that WSH does not run on WindowsCE 4.20.

Questions are:
1) Will cscript / wscript run on CE 4.20
2) How do you get it there?

date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:23:43 -0500   author:   frankm alias

RE: WSH on Windows CE   

Sorry for asking here but I can't post new question. I click on 'new' button, 
then click button but nothing happens. whot is the problem?
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"frankm" wrote:

> It seems that WSH does not run on WindowsCE 4.20.
> 
> Questions are:
> 1) Will cscript / wscript run on CE 4.20
> 2) How do you get it there? 
> 
> 
>

date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:49:50 -0700   author:   Dmitriy

Re: WSH on Windows CE   

frankm wrote:
> It seems that WSH does not run on WindowsCE 4.20.
> 

hi frankm, I don't know the answer, but have you tried it?

As best I can tell, winCE supports (nearly?) all the system
api that "regular" ms windows does.  And so, it maybe supports
scripting also.

My approach would be just to (fearlessly?) tread where nobody
has dared to tread before.  Just try downloading the scripting
package, and try installing and running it...

Now comes the tricky part.  For one thing, the "old" (and easily
remembered) reference to the ms scripting pages:

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

is broken.  The new (not very memorable) reference is:

   http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms950396.aspx

But that is not much help either.  The links on that page to
"downloads" are broken (both of them).  And so, after searching
and searching, I _FINALLY_ found it:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/results.aspx?productID=478EA476-5552-479E-A200-2C33FFD43F24&freetext=update&DisplayLang=en

But I must say, ms is not spending a lot of time maintaining
their scripting website (maybe because they are promoting
powershell, and consider wsh as "depricated"(?) -- a word ms
applies to products that they are wishing would just go away).
Anyway, the above website gives you a choice of version 5.6
and 5.7.  Again, as best I can tell, 5.7 is only for Vista,
so I would suggest starting with 5.6.

cheers, jw
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date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:28:58 -0400   author:   mr_unreliable

Re: WSH on Windows CE   

mr_unreliable wrote:
> frankm wrote:
>> It seems that WSH does not run on WindowsCE 4.20.
>>
> 
> hi frankm, I don't know the answer, but have you tried it?
> 
> As best I can tell, winCE supports (nearly?) all the system
> api that "regular" ms windows does.  And so, it maybe supports
> scripting also.
> 

Another thought -- if wsh scripting doesn't work, then there
is "BCX for winCE".

So what is BCX and why would I care?  For one, BCX is a "Basic"
compiler, and as you probably know wsh/vbscript is a "basic"
offshoot also.  So if you can program in wsh/vbs, then you can
probably pick up the BCX syntax easily.

The BCX compiler converts basic to "c" language, and uses a
c compiler to compile to an exe.  And c compilers definitely
_do_ work on winCE.

In some ways you may be better off with BCX, because BCX
includes a GUI interface (several in fact), so you don't
have to use IE as an interface.

In case you might be interested in BCX, you can turn up the
main site, and several enthusiast sites with google.

If you want some discussion and examples specifically applicable
to BCX on winCE, here is one reference:

http://www.starpig.com/IDC1/BCX/IDC_BCX_Page.html#Links_to_BCX_Sites

cheers, jw

date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:12:47 -0400   author:   mr_unreliable