Hi Doug,
I also have these enlightened moments when I say - hey I never knew you
could do that!
One was when I found the power of .hta's, also on a windows platform,
they are full programs, where the logic is programmed in javascipt (or
vbscript), and the interface in html. They don't have the restrictions that
html pages have, so you can read/write to the local disk etc.
It means you can use DynAPI to design your application front-end, but
with the power of any VB application.
It's just a shame there's not much information out there on them.
If you want you can checkout a test application I made here:
It connects to the internet to check which of my friends are online with
their ICQ, and displays US/EU time( with a bug sometimes).
It includes an installer / uninstaller and all is done with DynAPI
(except the installer of course), it copies the DynAPI libraries to the
install directory. Just open the .hta in your editor to see the
source-code.
If you wanted to do the same thing in VB, you would be looking at a lot
of code/OCX's to get your app chromeless, draggable by background, connecting
to the internet, not showing in the taskbar, etc, while here it wasn't that
hard, just one page of code.
I can verify it is virus/trojan free, but be careful with .hta files,
they are often abused.
Richard.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: 05 June, 2001 00:22
Subject: [Dynapi-Help] OT: Mega Cool..
or "calling all Win32 Users!"
I just puta dynapi page into my
desktop.
What I mean is that Using active
desktop,
I was able to embed a DynAPI document into my
Desktop.
It's REALLY cool..
Doug
Melvin
Programmer/Analyst
Creative-Workshop.com
(613)
236-5556
