VBScript Node

[ChristopheC]

Creation of a VBScript Node, similar to the MathScript Node, allowing to run a VBScript.

[smercurio_fc]

You can already do this using ActiveX. See here for an example.

[muks]

May come handy.

[ChristopheC]

The limitation with the ActiveX example or using the Windows scripting host application is that you can't use variables that would be set in LabVIEW or return values that would be computed by the script. For self-contained / standalone scripts, it works fine.

[AristosQueue (NI)]

Christophe: I don't think that building a full VB parser/compiler is at all something worth spending massive resources on. The Mathscript node requires a lot of attention to keep it up-to-date and to generate good code. I suspect that VB -- a language that gets changes much more frequently than Mathscript -- would require even more attention.

[muks]

>>>I suspect that VB -- a language that gets changes much more frequently than Mathscript -- would require even more attention.

True and by the way we can learn to do the same thing in lv instead

[GrantM]

>> I don't think that building a full VB parser/compiler is at all something worth spending massive resources on.

I agree.  What if this were implemented like the other script nodes, where it simply interfaces to an external script server?  Does such a standalone server exist for VB script?

[Darren]

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