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    Windows script control

    Client has an technical Access application with various algorithms in VBA. He wants a system where users can type in and run their own algorithms. Seemed like a piece of cake with Windows Script Control. However I find it only runs single line statements

    eg with language as vbscript
    if x=1 then y=2

    is ok but

    if x=1 then
    y=2
    endif
    gives 'Statement expected'

    There is no such limitation according to MS's help - it should run any valid vbscript. Anyone else had a problem?

    Cheers
    bloggoth

    If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
    John Wayne (My guru, not to be confused with my beloved prophet Jeremy Clarkson)

    #2
    Originally posted by xoggoth
    Client has an technical Access application with various algorithms in VBA. He wants a system where users can type in and run their own algorithms. Seemed like a piece of cake with Windows Script Control. However I find it only runs single line statements

    eg with language as vbscript
    if x=1 then y=2

    is ok but

    if x=1 then
    y=2
    endif
    gives 'Statement expected'

    There is no such limitation according to MS's help - it should run any valid vbscript. Anyone else had a problem?

    Cheers
    Just come across this in a hungover stupor... is it

    End If rather than endif?
    If you think my attitude stinks, you should smell my fingers.

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      #3
      Damn!!! I am so used to lazily typing a single word in VB or VBA and it gets auto changed to two.

      Actually this did occurr to me earlier (honest) and thought I must remove this thread before somebody sees it and I look like a complete @rse.

      Too late!!!!
      Again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

      Anyway, cheers HD
      bloggoth

      If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
      John Wayne (My guru, not to be confused with my beloved prophet Jeremy Clarkson)

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        #4
        Jeez... I must code some more when I'm hungover - it seems to work...!

        ...that's about the first answer in years I've given that's been correct.

        Mind you xoggoth...all that process engineering we've done in the past must have fuzzled our brains somewhat... I have done the very same thing as you have done - with all these different languages and syntaxes...I've even put that in using C# (a devil's language if I've ever seen one...hopefully Chico can exorcise that into oblivion)
        If you think my attitude stinks, you should smell my fingers.

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