Hi Chip: I agree! Even during this project I lost workdue to inadvertently having more than one version of a NotePad file open at once without knowing. I'll be glad to put a NotePad script up but want to tweak it a bit first. The xml file needs to be cleaned up and some strings should be more descriptive. If there are any other things you can think of in NotePad that could benefit from scripting let me know and I'll add them prior to uploading if I can. I might put a question out on list, and perhaps the Blind Programming list, to see if I can get someone to translate the warning message into a foreign language so I can see how that works. Another option here might be to use one of those online translators but I'm not sure how good they are. Later: Rick USA To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 9:33 PM Subject: RE: VBScript NotePad App and Loading To App Central
Very nice Rick; thanks, and I hope everyone in the class will download the .zip file attached to Rick's message. he's not only provided his solution, but he's provided a "walk through" document, a kind of log of his process for developing this app and debugging and testing it as he put the two parts together, to make sure everything was working ok. Rick, I've decided this is useful enough to me that I'm going to keep mine running, but I don't feel like taking on the support of another app just now. so, if you'd like to do it, feel free to finish it off and upload it to app central; I think it's useful and belongs in the program enhancements. If you don't feel like doing it though, maybe let the list know in case someone else would like to take it on? One thing I'd like to mention to the beginning students: in my examples, I've always placed the code of the main body of any app at the start of the .vbs file. You'll find Rick has placed his down into the .vbs file (a not uncommon practice), marked with a comment. this is all the same to Window-eyes, no matter where it's placed, it takes all the statements which are not in a subroutine or function, and groups them together and executes them as the main body; just something I thought I should mention now, as I don't ever recall mentioning this point earlier, and someone may have thought there was no main body code. Chip ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: RicksPlace [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 4:51 PM To: [email protected] Subject: VBScript NotePad App and Loading To App Central Hi Chip: Here is the Script files for the NotePad script we were working on in class. It is unfinished since I did not want to upload it to App Central unless this is the version that would be a good Production Fit with anything else up there for NotePad. Also, since I have not uploaded it I don't have a real ID, ScriptNamed Website and whatever else goes along with uploading a script properly. That said, this is getting close and I will check out any docs on uploading scripts. I to not want to add to the bloat that is happening with the available scripts by putting up some test script so will wait until I hear from you here or in class. Anyway, it's done for now so it is what it is. Let me know if you are going to put a real NotePad script up or if you are going to modify an existing script. Rick USA
