WSH Debugging

Dorel

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Apr 16, 2001, 3:51:34 PM4/16/01

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I've installed Microsoft Script Debugger 1.0a on a Windows 2000 machine and
hoped to use it for scripts written in Jscript, but the debugger works only
on HTML pages.
To use a script in HTML pages I need to make minor modifications to it, like
replacing "WScript.CreateObject()" with "new ActiveXObject()", and then it
seems that I can't use the WScript object (like WScript.Echo).
How can I use the debugger without having to save the script as a HTML page?
(I'm using Jscript 5.5 with WSH 2.0 and Debugger 1.0a).
Thanks.

Michael Harris

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Apr 16, 2001, 3:06:35 PM4/16/01

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In IE hosted script, just use window.alert() or confirm() or prompt().

To debug standalone (WSH hosted) script...

In WSH 2.0, set HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows Script\Settings\JITDebug = to 1 (DWORD value). Then
start your script with "wscript //d yourscript.vbs " to allow the "stop" statement to be honored. Or
use the syntax "wscript //x yourscript.vbs " to start the script in the debugger (no stop statement
needed).

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John Zullo

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Apr 16, 2001, 4:02:46 PM4/16/01

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That did the trick! Thanks

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Shannon

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Apr 16, 2001, 6:30:59 PM4/16/01

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are you debugging the js/vbs file as well as the wsc?

"John Zullo" <jo...@gmsint.com> wrote in message
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> That did the trick! Thanks
>
> "Michael Harris" <Please....@To.NewsGroup> wrote in message
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> > In IE hosted script, just use window.alert() or confirm() or prompt().
> >
> > To debug standalone (WSH hosted) script...
> >
> > In WSH 2.0, set HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows Script\Settings\JITDebug
=
> to 1 (DWORD value). Then

> > start your script with "wscript file://d yourscript.vbs " to allow the

"stop"
> statement to be honored. Or

> > use the syntax "wscript file://x yourscript.vbs " to start the script in

Michael Harris

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Apr 16, 2001, 9:24:10 PM4/16/01

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To debug a WSC, set the same JITDebug named value. You also need to add the

<?component debug="true" error="true"?> processing instruction to the WSC source file...

For a WSF file, add

<?component debug="true" error="true"?> processing instruction to the WSF source file...

The error attribute isn't strictly needed to debug, but it certainly helps ;-)...

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Shannon

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Apr 17, 2001, 1:07:50 PM4/17/01

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Michael,
Edited the registration value for the current local user, and edited my
component tag to be " <?component debug="true" error="true"?> ". Then
running from the command line wscript.exe c:\peoplepc\components\test.js and
put the debugger statements with the x in front of it, and I get an illegal
advise error.

My wsc file contents are as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252"?>

</registration>

var description = new WSHTest;

function WSHTest()
{
return "test";
}

]]>
</script>

</component>
And then the javascript file that calls this guy has the following contents:
debugger;
WScript.Echo("This machine is running " + WScript.Name + ", version " +
WScript.Version);
var objNewCharger = WScript.CreateObject("BaddaBing");
WScript.Echo("-*-*-* Test *-*-*-");
var txtTmp = objNewCharger.WSHTest();
WScript.Echo(txtTmp);

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Shannon

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Apr 17, 2001, 1:33:17 PM4/17/01

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Nevermind Michael I got it, I realized that the " <?component debug="true"
error="true"?> ", statement doesn't replace the component start tag. After
that it worked great, thanks for the help once again. Many thanks at that.
Shannon

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Michael Harris

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Apr 17, 2001, 3:20:04 PM4/17/01

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And fix this...

<?component debug="true" error="true"?>

And take the time to read the documentation ;-)...

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Michael Harris

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Apr 17, 2001, 3:15:35 PM4/17/01

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To start with, remove the line:

var description = new WSHTest;

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