Writing to Console (stdout) with VBScript from within the ScriptControl

[Julian Catchen]

Hi-

I am writing an application that uses the Microsoft Script Control to run
VBScripts. The VBScripts then interact with our internal data.

I want to write output, to the console the program is running in, from
within my script. If I run the following test script with the cscript.exe
program it works without a problem:

vbfoo
Sub vbfoo()
WScript.StdOut.Write "Hello World"
End Sub

However, when I fun the same script from within the ScriptControl, I get the
following error:

Object required: 'WScript'

Any ideas on how to write to StdOut from within the ScriptControl?

[Michael Harris]

[FSO] GetStandardStream is supported but not in the official docs...

This was copy/pasted from a VB/VBA object browser...

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Function GetStandardStream(StandardStreamType As StandardStreamTypes, [Unicode As Boolean]) As
TextStream
Member of IWshRuntimeLibrary.FileSystemObject

StandardStreamTypes
Const StdErr = 2
Const StdIn = 0
Const StdOut = 1

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[Tom Lavedas]

Is this version dependent?

Tom Lavedas
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[Julian Catchen]

Thanks for the help. Would it be possible for you to provide an example of
how to use this in VBScript? I am trying the following:

dim sout
set sout = GetStandardStream(StdOut)
sout.Write "Hello World"

But I keep getting type mismatch errors.

"Michael Harris" <mik...@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:ez0PMf9lAHA.2016@tkmsftngp02...

[Tom Lavedas]

Just reading the info Michael posted, I think that should be ...

dim sout, oFS
const StdOut = 1
set oFS = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
set sout = oFS.GetStandardStream(StdOut)
sout.Write "Hello World"

I didn't take time to confirm this.

Tom Lavedas
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http://www.pressroom.com/~tglbatch/

[Julian Catchen]

Great! It works! Thanks for the help.

"Tom Lavedas" <lav...@pressroom.com> wrote in message
news:3A8D562C...@pressroom.com...

[Michael Harris]

"Tom Lavedas" <lav...@pressroom.com> wrote in message news:3A8D486A...@pressroom.com...
> Is this version dependent?
>

scrrun 5.1.x.x or higher (i.e., WSH 2.0+)