Adding GUI in VBScript

Question

I have a bunch of VBScripts and I wanted to have a GUI so that I don't have to double click the actual .vbs. Is there a way or other programming languages that can launch VBS and have GUI?

Just edit and post your vbscripts that you want to interface it with HTA and the members here will assiste you to build your own HTA. — Hackoo, Apr 05 '15 at 22:40

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 05 '15 at 10:38

The first choice for a VBScript GUI is a HTA. All languages that can create a window/dialog and call external programs can run something like

P:\athto\corwscript.exe P:\ath\to\script.vbs pa ra me ters

So stick to HTA or pick the language you are most familiar with.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 05 '15 at 23:14

This is a console menu. Right click and choose Open in Command Prompt. Only options 3 and 5 do anything. This is from Filter's menu code at https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=E2F0CE17A268A4FA!121

Set Arg = WScript.Arguments
set WshShell = createObject("Wscript.Shell")
Set Inp = WScript.Stdin
Set Outp = Wscript.Stdout


Showmenu

Sub ShowHelpMenu
    outp.writeline " -----------------------------------------------------------------------------"
    outp.writeblanklines(1) 
    outp.writeline " Menu"
    outp.writeline " ----"
    outp.writeblanklines(1) 
    outp.writeline "  1 Help              2 HTML Help          3 Version           4 History"
    outp.writeblanklines(1) 
    outp.writeline "  5 Exit"
    outp.writeblanklines(1) 
    outp.write "Filter>"
End Sub

'=============================================
Sub ShowMenu
    Do
        ShowHelpMenu
        Answ=Inp.readline
        If Answ = "1" Then
            ShowGeneralHelp "TEXT"
        Elseif Answ = "2" Then
            ShowGeneralHelp "HTML"
        Elseif Answ = "3" Then
            Version
        Elseif Answ = "4" Then
            History
        Elseif Answ = "5" Then
            Exit Do
        End If
    Loop
End Sub

'=============================================
Sub History
    On Error Resume Next
    WshShell.Run """" & FilterPath & "FilterHistory.txt""" , 1, False
    err.clear
End Sub

'=============================================
Sub Version
    outp.writeblanklines(1) 
    outp.writeline " Version"
    outp.writeline " -------"
    outp.writeblanklines(1) 
    outp.writeline "   Filter Ver 0.6  -  2015  (Public Domain)"
    outp.writeblanklines(1)
    outp.writeline "   by David Candy"
    outp.writeblanklines(1)
End Sub

HTA or web pages give VBSript graphical ui. The main difference is HTA avoid security prompts. Although if you load a local web page, so do web pages. You program an HTA as if it's a web page.

Here's an HTA in HTML/VBScript, It uses a object that is a text database object.

<html>
<head>
<style>
BODY        {font-size :100%;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: black;
        background:URL(images/watermark.gif);background-color: white;
        margin-top:0; margin-left:0pt; margin-right:0pt ; text-align:Justify}
P       {margin-left:40pt;margin-right:10pt}
TABLE       {font-size: 90%; text-align:left; margin-left:40pt;margin-right:10pt;background-color:lavender;width:90%}
THEAD       {color: white;font-weight:bold;background-color:darkblue; margin-left:40pt;margin-right:10pt}
TD      {Vertical-Align:Top;padding:3px}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<OBJECT CLASSID="clsid:333C7BC4-460F-11D0-BC04-0080C7055A83"
    ID=dsoMacro5 WIDTH=0 HEIGHT=0>
    <PARAM NAME="DataURL" VALUE="music.txt">
    <PARAM NAME="UseHeader" Value="True">
    <PARAM NAME="FieldDelim" VALUE="&#09;">
    <PARAM NAME="Sort"  Value="Title">
</OBJECT>
<h3>My Music Database</h3>
<h4>Select a button to filter list</h4>
<p>To search for a word in the Title field use <i>* word *</i>. To search for the first word in a field use <i>Word *</i> or the last word use <i>* word</i>. To search for a string within a word or word use <i>*partialword*</i>. Searches are case sensitive.</i></p>
<p><INPUT Name=tb1 TYPE=Text Value=""> <INPUT ID=cmdNavFirst TYPE=BUTTON VALUE="     Search     " onclick="dsoMacro5.object.filter='Title=' + tb1.value;dsoMacro5.reset()"></p>
<p><INPUT ID=cmdNavFirst TYPE=BUTTON VALUE="   Sort Book   " onclick="dsoMacro5.object.sort='Book';dsoMacro5.reset()"></p>
<hr class="body">
<TABLE ID=tblMacro2 DATASRC=#dsoMacro5 OnRowEnter=Alert(tblMacro2.row)>
<THEAD>
<TR>
<TD WIDTH="20%"><b>Number</b></TD>
<TD WIDTH="60%"><b>Title</b></TD>
<TD WIDTH="20%"><b>Book</b></TD>
</TR>
</THEAD>
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TD WIDTH="20%"><SPAN DATAFLD=Number></SPAN></TD>
<TD WIDTH="60%"><SPAN DATAFLD=Title></SPAN></TD>
<TD WIDTH="20%"><SPAN DATAFLD=Book></SPAN></TD>
</TR>
</TBODY>
</TABLE>
</body>
</html>

For this to work you need a database file called music.txt. Note that is TABS between fields.

Number  Title   Book
1   One A song
2   Two A another song
3   Three   A yet another song
4   Four    Yes it's a song

Adding GUI in VBScript

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