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Hello everyone

I am new for jscript, I am developing a program (script) to send a auto message to my friends, whom stay online for too long. I mean, I will notice them for take a little break from computer online.

Now my script almost complete just left in a part of load data (nice and worm messages) for send it out.

I try to search for this solution for a week but still no exactly I want.

In my idea, I think to prepare messages in local XML file (same directory of the script), then open and load it to script array, then random select them to send out. I looking the way to do this work.

I hope will has someone show me an answer in a sample XML file that contain messages. Also a script to load and random select their message in array to display.

Thank you so much for your help.
Sakpong (Thailand)

ps. I also attached my (modified) script. In case you need to understand more in my idea.

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Dear everyone

I'm looking in Tips's topic(http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=56747). I feel I am found a solution (Reading the contents of a file) in there. It's seem not to hard. Next I must separate it to array.
I will try to implement it and will tell the result soon.

Sorry to annoy you. The solution is seem to very closely but I am looking in wrong places.

But if someone have any good suggestions, please. I always open for your opinion.

Thank you so much.

Dear everyone

This problems are still on. 

I try (some tips from http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=56747&page=1)

    code :
    var msgFile    = MsgPlus.ScriptFilesPath+"\\Messages.xml";
    function file_exists(file)
    {
       return new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject").FileExists(file);
    }
    -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

and

    code :
    -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    function get_file_contents(file)
    {
        var fileSys = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
        var fileH = fileSys.OpenTextFile(file, 1, 0);
        var text = fileH.ReadAll();
        fileH.close();
        return text;
    }
    -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Both function is work fine to load plain text file, but not work to parse XML file. If I change to prepare messages in text file, I still have problems in parser data. Because one message can be either one sentence or more sentences. That maybe a new problem to split messages to array.

Then I try (XML request) next one, even I don't know what are output should be.

// -------------------------------------------------------------------
// XML request
function NewRequest(service)
{
    xmlFile = service;
    Debug.Trace("Calling: "+xmlFile);
    var xml = new ActiveXObject("MSXML2.DOMDocument.4.0");
    xml.validateOnParse = false;
    xml.async = false;
    xml.load(xmlFile);
    var resp = xml.documentElement;
   
    return resp;
}
// -------------------------------------------------------------------

But I found an error. They say cannot to create obj from
var xml = new ActiveXObject("MSXML2.DOMDocument.4.0");

Because I am very new in XML, I not sure about XML structure.
I don't know how to parse information out.

Please help me! please give me some basic samples will be very kindness.

Thanks

The ".4.0" specifies a version of the ActiveXObject to use, although you may not have it. try removing it and seeing if you getany results from just "MSXML2.DOMDocument"

Thank you Spunky so much.

It's done. Script modified follow your advice work very well.
Now I can continue coding.

Thank Thank Thank