Hello Everyone

I've been wanting to develop a script of my own for over 6 months now but I found it very hard to save data on the hard drive. In fact, I still don't know how it works. I know it has to do with XML and ActiveX but I never used both these languages.

So basically, my question is : what is the simplest way to save something on the hard drive??? I spend my whole afternoon yesterday and today's whole morning trying to figure out how it worked, but it seems hard and complicated. Is there simply a function that does the work?

Also, I suck at JScript

Please reply, thank you

What exactly are you trying to save?

I wanna make a script that counts how many times I spoke to a contact. I need to save that number every time I close the chat window let's say

I am interested in knowing the code so if you get it from anywhere please share.

There's no code for the moment. I programmed my app on MatLab, and generated an exe file. But it sucks to have to write the name of the person everytime, so that's why I wanna do it as a messenger script.
The problem is I don't know how to save the data

There are 2 ways that you can do this, you can save data to a file or to the Windows registry. Take a look on the scripts forum and other scripts

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Originally posted by Infinity8888
I wanna make a script that counts how many times I spoke to a contact. I need to save that number every time I close the chat window let's say

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How many times a window was opened for example. The algorithm is simple - as I said I've already done it all in Matlab - I just don't know how to save data with jscript, and this wasn't discussed in the messenger plus documentation. Is it just a simple instruction?

I've checked out another script (called Stat Center) and it was really confusing, there were notions of encoder, decoder, serializer, asyncrhonous, I was like "wtf???"

The best analogue I can think of to learn from would be a win32 read/write example. Some things need to be changed though still such as ActiveXObject instead of create object and no constants are defined so you have to explicitly assign these values. There may be an example somewhere around here. I'll see what I can dig up (getting son to sleep atm)

js code:

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function WriteDemo()
{
   var fso, f, r
   var ForReading = 1, ForWriting = 2;
   fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
   f = fso.OpenTextFile("c:\\testfile.txt", ForWriting, true)
   f.Write("Hello world!");
   f.Close();
   f = fso.OpenTextFile("c:\\testfile.txt", ForReading);
   r = f.ReadLine();
   return(r);
}

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js code:

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function Write(filename, text){
   try{
      var fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
      f = fso.OpenTextFile(filename, 2, true)
      f.Write(text);
      f.Close();
      return 1;
   }catch(e){
      Debug.Trace("Write Error: (File '"+filename+"': " + e.message);
      return 0;
   }
}

function Read(filename)
   try{
      f = fso.OpenTextFile(filename, 1);
      return f.ReadLine();
   }catch(e){
      Debug.Trace("Read Error: (File '"+filename+"': " + e.message);
      return 0; // Failed
   }
}

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Oh thanx this is working. I've read about XML but if I can use this to write in txt files, it doesn't bother me

Thank you very much

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Originally posted by Spunky
Although I'm sure there should be an f.Close(); before the return. This is taken from MSDN though

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Originally posted by Infinity8888
this wasn't discussed in the messenger plus documentation.

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js code:

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function Write(filename, text){
   try{
      var fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
>>>      var f = fso.OpenTextFile(filename, 2, true);<<<
      f.Write(text);
      f.Close();
      return 1;
   }catch(e){
      Debug.Trace("Write Error: (File '"+filename+"': " + e.message);
      return 0;
   }
}

>>>function Read(filename){<<<
   try{
>>>      var fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");<<<
>>>      var f = fso.OpenTextFile(filename, 1);<<<
>>>      var r = f.ReadLine();<<<
>>>      f.Close();<<<
>>>      return r;<<<
   }catch(e){
      Debug.Trace("Read Error: (File '"+filename+"': " + e.message);
      return 0; // Failed
   }
}

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
Although, there are some small errors in Spunky's code

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Yeah I added the Close() yesterday because I wasn't able to erase the files I was working with because they were still used by messenger.

I just needed something to start with. Thank you very much