I'm new to Plus! and JS.

I'm pretty skilled with VB 6 & VB.Net however.

Is there a way to have all the events aviable in VB, maybe an API call or function?

Or do i have to manually make a "translator" for each event and argument etc etc?

How could i go about doing this any way? I don't know any direct way to communicate from JS to VB... well fast any way, i'm sure i could read/write to a file... but that's just not practicle.

Also (Not related to the post) When i was doing the mini tutorial that you can download for JS, i found a problem; When i try to make a xml form come up (i don't know the correct term for it). It would not show. I tried restarting MSN and the script and i followed it exactly, i even tried to get it to show up when a msg was recieved (by looking at the code from other scripts), but nothing worked. I'm still trouble shooting this problem however.

Create an ActiveX DLL then call it as an ActiveXObject in the scripts.

What do i put in this DLL?

So i have to manually make all the events and stuff in the dll?

What JS do i use?

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Also (Not related to the post) When i was doing the mini tutorial that you can download for JS, i found a problem; When i try to make a xml form come up (i don't know the correct term for it). It would not show. I tried restarting MSN and the script and i followed it exactly, i even tried to get it to show up when a msg was recieved (by looking at the code from other scripts), but nothing worked. I'm still trouble shooting this problem however.

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What do i put in this DLL?

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Originally posted by Tails
So i have to manually make all the events and stuff in the dll?

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Originally posted by Tails
What JS do i use?

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function OnEvent_Initialize(bMessengerStart){
    var MyActiveXObject = new ActiveXObhect('Projectname.Classname');
}

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ok, thanks for that!

I Will create a DLL and when it's finished i may post it on this site, with script included of course.

User defined objects and forms (from JS) will be a problem for me however and the DLL may not include them.

My bad too, i missed that! I didn't save it as unicode, it was saved as the default (ANSI). It now works

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Originally posted by Matty

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function OnEvent_Initialize(bMessengerStart){
    var MyActiveXObject = new ActiveXObject('Projectname.Classname');
}

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This is going to need 2 actives X files...

One that communicates and translates from JS.

The other will be added to a VB project and used to relay the commands from the JS active X.

They'll communicate with the send message api or somthing like that.

Maybe if you explain in great detail what your plugin/script will do, we could help you more.

As I see it now, you're making it way, and I mean waaaaaaay , too complicated and unneeded.

lol, I'm trying to make it so that i can use VB instead of JS. I don't know much about JS i doubt it's as powerful as VB (well i know JS is good and probebly as powerful, but in a different way). VB has a good editor and all that as well, plus it's easier to link up to other programs and manipulate strings and all that stuff.

My plan in the end is to make a bot with VB that my msn can use, but i guess it will be better just to make the momma load so i can use the same code if i want to make something else with msn/vb later as well.

I don't think JS is good to do something like this in.

I see... well it can perfectly be done in JScript though, just as easy as it is in VB and you wouldn't have all the overhead and stuff...

Note: you only need 1 ActiveX DLL (yuor 'bot') and the wrapper script if you still want to continue to do this in VB6; not two activex DLLs. Also you don't need the sendmessage API, events in your activex dll can be triggered directly from within JScript and vice versa.

In fact, you don't need to make this event driven actually. Your activex dll could simply be the "core engine", processing the given text (manipulating the text and stuff) and outputting the reaction, while your JScript script simply calls the procedure from that "core engine" to process a string. No need for events syncronization between JScript and the activexdll in that way.

I have no idea how this is to be done.

This way sounds alot better and alot less complecated then my way!

But i don't know how to make JS raise an event (i supose a class would be better and having public events that JS triggers, with some parameters that are passed when the event is triggered such as text). The ActiveX will work this way.

Forget about events and stuff, just as in VB6, in the scripts the events are triggered automatically. Everything is done right inside the scripts. All you need to do is make some functions to handle your text.

Read and study the scripting documentation, examples are shown there.

Also, you can find examples in the scripting database.

eg: Some basic JScript code you need:

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function OnEvent_SigninReady(sEmail) {
    var oMyBot = new ActiveXObject('Your.ActiveX');
}

function OnEvent_ChatWndReceiveMessage(pChatWnd, sOrigin, sMessage, nMessageKind) {
    Debug.Trace('Chat window: ' + pChatWnd);
    Debug.Trace('Contact name: ' + sOrigin);
    Debug.Trace('Message recieved: ' + sMessage);
    Debug.Trace('Message type: ' + nMessageKind);
    if (sOrigin != Messenger.MyName) {
        var ReplyMessage = oMyBot.ProcedureToHandleText(sMessage);
        pChatWnd.SendMessage(ReplyMessage);
    }
}

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var ReplyMessage = oMyBot.ProcedureToHandleText(sMessage);

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I've been trying to work with DLL's too, not much luck though!

I've tried making a basic script to simply display some test from a DLL.

SCRIPT:

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function OnEvent_Initialize(MessengerStart)
{
var MyActiveXObject = new ActiveXObject('Project1.Class1');
Debug.Trace(MyActiveXObject.ShowMyText);
}

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Public Function ShowMyText()
ShowMyText = "Hello World!"
End Function

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Script is starting
Script is now loaded and ready
Function called: OnEvent_Initialize
Error: Wrong number of arguments or invalid property assignment.
       Line: 4. Code: -2146827838.
Function OnEvent_Initialize returned an error. Code: -2147352567

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The VB DLL must be an ActiveX DLL, this means your exposed functions need to be in a public class module. Look at the plugin documentation for Plus!3. Plugins are ActiveX DLLs. Example provided in the docs.

And you also have to regsvr32 the dll so it is registered on the computer.

Yup covered all that, still no joy! Anyone got an example at all?

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Originally posted by Griffo

code:

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function OnEvent_Initialize(MessengerStart)
{
var MyActiveXObject = new ActiveXObject('Project1.Class1');
Debug.Trace(MyActiveXObject.ShowMyText);
}

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function OnEvent_Initialize(MessengerStart)
{
var MyActiveXObject = new ActiveXObject('Project1.Class1');
Debug.Trace(MyActiveXObject.ShowMyText());
}

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Originally posted by Griffo

code:

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Public Function ShowMyText()
ShowMyText = "Hello World!"
End Function

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code:

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Public Function ShowMyText() As String
ShowMyText = "Hello World!"
End Function

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Thanks a lot mate, works perfectly now!

Script is starting
Script is now loaded and ready
Function called: OnEvent_Initialize
Error: Automation server can't create object.
       Line: 5. Code: -2146827859.
Function OnEvent_Initialize returned an error. Code: -2147352567

It can't create your ActiveX. I tried registering it manually as well. I used the project you provided and tried my own.

EDIT *** The way i got it to work was to comment the register and unregister lines and create my own bat file.

Thank you for this, your way is soo much better.

Also remember that when you make changes to your dll, and even unregister and re-register it, your script won't be able to use the new dll UNLESS:

1. you restart messenger or
2. save the dll with a different project name and use that when creating ActiveXObject