CScript vs WScript

[humbletech99]

Hi,

I am currently writing some command line tools and was wondering what the most portable way of having a script called myscript.vbs that works like any normal command line program.

I have tried so far testing for the name of the script host executable and if it's wscript, then doing in an if block

shell.run "cscript.exe """ & Wscript.ScriptFullName & """"
WScript.Quit

However this opens the script in a new cmd window which is a bit of a problem, especially since you can't read the output before the window closes.

I know I can change the default scripting host of the system to be cscript instead of wscript but it would be nice to do this in a more portable way such that I don't have to change the host environment to achieve this.

Also, if I change the scripting host, then whenever I run any wscript orientated script that I want to run behind the scenes, it pops up a cmd box, which looks rubbish.

Perhaps there is a way of doing the shell.run in the current window or some completely different way of doing this? shell.Exec? Or get cscript to execute in the current window instead of starting a new one?

Any ideas welcome.

Thanks

[#rootworm]

if you use ExeScript to compile your vbs to an exe you should get the predictable results you're looking for.

Edited July 8, 2007 by #rootworm