Mark
Wed Jun 14 17:45:25 CDT 2006
No, I do not.
I am not aware of how to download or register it...
I don't think that it would be useful to me right now as I'm pushing out
a VBSCript update to about 400 machines on our network through SMS.
Mark
On 2006-06-14, Jim <no@spam.com> wrote:
> yes, do you have the object installed and registered??
>
>
> "Mark Withers" <BSDjunkie@mymailbox.com> wrote in message
> news:slrne90ic6.lsl.BSDjunkie@bsdjunkie.homeunix.org...
>>I receive the following error:
>>
>> ActiveX component can't create object: 'DynamicWrapper'
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> On 2006-06-14, mr_unreliable <kindlyReplyToNewsgroup@notmail.com> wrote:
>>> Mark, if you are courageous enough (or foolhardy enough)
>>> to consider calling a system api from script, then
>>> "BlockInput" could do what you want. That is, it could
>>> stop that uncooperative user from restarting his/her app.
>>>
>>> Like it says, "BlockInput" will block all keyboard and
>>> mouse input.
>>>
>>> Here is a demo script:
>>>
>>> --- <snip> ---
>>> ' test "sleep" api call, using DynaWrap, ca 2000, jw
>>> ' 25Jan05: revised to show elapsed time explicitly...
>>> ' 11May05: revised to show blockinput rather than sleep...
>>>
>>> Const CPP_TRUE = 1 ' c++ (i.e., system values - NOT vb values)
>>> Const CPP_FALSE = 0
>>>
>>> Dim oDW : Set oDW = CreateObject("DynamicWrapper") ' instantiate
>>> dynawrap
>>> oDW.Register "USER32.DLL", "BlockInput", "i=l", "f=s" ' declare api
>>> (no return value)
>>>
>>> MsgBox("Click OK to start blocking keyboard and mouse input")
>>>
>>> Call oDW.BlockInput(CPP_TRUE) ' block any keybd or mouse input...
>>>
>>> WScript.Sleep 5000 ' wait-a-bit (5 sec) to allow for testing
>>>
>>> Call oDW.BlockInput(CPP_FALSE)
>>>
>>> MsgBox("input blocking cleared")
>>>
>>> Set oDW = nothing ' clean up
>>> WScript.Quit
>>> --- </snip> ---
>>>
>>> Note that if you and your user are ever to remain to speaking
>>> terms, you must remember to UN-blockinput when you are done.
>>>
>>> cheers, jw
>>> ____________________________________________________________
>>>
>>> You got questions? WE GOT ANSWERS!!! ..(but,
>>> no guarantee the answers will be applicable to the questions)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --- <DynaWrap Boilerplate> ---
>>> It is possible to declare-and-call an api from script,
>>> but you must use a third-party control to do so,
>>> or else write one yourself.
>>>
>>> It has already been correctly pointed out that there
>>> is no api-capability in "pure" script.
>>>
>>> If you are willing to use a third-party control, then
>>> one such control, called "DynaWrap", can be found on
>>> Guenter Born's website (note: Guenter refers to it as
>>> "DynaCall"). Here is the link to it:
>>>
>>>
http://people.freenet.de/gborn/WSHBazaar/WSHDynaCall.htm
>>>
>>> On that page you will find a download for the control,
>>> plus some code samples.
>>>
>>> Note: you may find additional sample code by searching
>>> the archives of the wsh and vbscript ng's.
>>>
>>> Note also: DynaWrap does have its limitations. There are
>>> certain things it can't do. For example, you can't call
>>> api's which take typedefs as parameters, and you can't call
>>> api's "by ordinal". But it will work for most of the
>>> "usual suspects".
>>>
>>> And finally, DynaWrap doesn't work entirely as advertised.
>>> For example, it is supposed to allow for the declaration of
>>> several api definitions in one instance of itself. I could
>>> never get that to work (in win9x). You will need a new
>>> instance of DynaWrap for every api, or else re-instantiate
>>> the object for every api. Someday I'm going to learn enough
>>> c++ to fix that...
>>> --- </DynaWrap Boilerplate> ---
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Mark Withers wrote:
>>>> To All:
>>>>
>>>> I was wondering if there is anything such as a 'persistent process kill'
>>>> in VBScript?
>>>>
>>>> Say that I am upgrading software, and the user decides (after I kill
>>>> their application) that they want to double-click on it and restart it
>>>> while the upgrade/install process is going?
>>>>
>>>> That would prevent msiexec from being able to write the installation
>>>> files and the install may fail.
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone else in this forum taken care of this problem?
>>>>
>>>> Is there some sort of a while/do loop that can run or that the
>>>> installation can be sandwitched in between?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks again for listening!
>>>>
>>>> Mark Withers
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