RE: [DUG]: Plugins/MS Scripting Host

1999-03-10 Thread Dennis Chuah
Mark, Forget the MS scripting engines - they are too much trouble for what they are worth! Firstly, there is no proper debugger, and the languages Whats MS Script Debugger then? I've seen references to it on several web-sites I've been looking at. I won't exactly call the script

RE: [DUG]: Plugins/MS Scripting Host

1999-03-10 Thread Peter Hyde
Dennis wrote: One thought. If the scripts are only used for reporting, try using Crystal reports. It can do most of what you can achieve using the basic scripts. Ditto for Shazam Report Writer -- http://www.shazamware.com, which has the advantage of being VCL, so built completely into

Re: [DUG]: Plugins/MS Scripting Host

1999-03-10 Thread Mark Derricutt
Dennis Chuah wrote: One thought. If the scripts are only used for reporting, try using Crystal reports. It can do most of what you can achieve using the basic scripts. Nah, they're mainly used for performaing advanced calculations to building a summary table of imported information. For

RE: [DUG]: Plugins/MS Scripting Host

1999-03-10 Thread Grant Black
]: Plugins/MS Scripting Host Dennis Chuah wrote: One thought. If the scripts are only used for reporting, try using Crystal reports. It can do most of what you can achieve using the basic scripts. Nah, they're mainly used for performaing advanced calculations to building

[DUG]: Plugins/MS Scripting Host

1999-03-09 Thread Mark Derricutt
Hiya - has anyone here written any applications that use "plugins" and "extensions" to extend the use of their application? Currently I'm using dynamically loaded .dll's to provide a plugin system for my application, only, delphi bloats .dll's quite a bit making each one around 100-150k, which

RE: [DUG]: Plugins/MS Scripting Host

1999-03-09 Thread Jeremy Coulter
recipients of list delphi Subject: [DUG]: Plugins/MS Scripting Host Hiya - has anyone here written any applications that use "plugins" and "extensions" to extend the use of their application? Currently I'm using dynamically loaded .dll's to provide a plugin system for my application,

Re: [DUG]: Plugins/MS Scripting Host

1999-03-09 Thread Nic Wise
] To: Multiple recipients of list delphi [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Peter Jones/LogisticsInformation Technology/Christchurch/Foodstuffs) Subject: [DUG]: Plugins/MS Scripting Host Hiya - has anyone here written any applications that use "plugins" and "extens

RE: [DUG]: Plugins/MS Scripting Host

1999-03-09 Thread Dennis Chuah
Mark, Currently I'm using dynamically loaded .dll's to provide a plugin system for my application, only, delphi bloats .dll's quite a bit making each one around 100-150k, which is compleatly overkill when the function being called is only 5-10 lines long (the functions often create a

Re: [DUG]: Plugins/MS Scripting Host

1999-03-09 Thread aaron
Currently I'm using dynamically loaded .dll's to provide a plugin system for my application, only, delphi bloats .dll's quite a bit making each one around 100-150k, which is compleatly overkill when the function being called is only 5-10 lines long (the functions often create a TQuery and connect

RE: [DUG]: Plugins/MS Scripting Host

1999-03-09 Thread Grant Black
of list delphi Subject: [DUG]: Plugins/MS Scripting Host Hiya - has anyone here written any applications that use "plugins" and "extensions" to extend the use of their application? Currently I'm using dynamically loaded .dll's to provide a plugin system for my appli

Re: [DUG]: Plugins/MS Scripting Host

1999-03-09 Thread Peter Hyde
Peter Jones wrote: There is also the Dream Controls - available from dream.com (?) or DSP. This seems to good to be true as it gives you a full Delphi interpreter and Delphi like environment. Robert Loof and I just had a review of the above published in Developers Review (March issue, I

Re: [DUG]: Plugins/MS Scripting Host

1999-03-09 Thread Mark Derricutt
Nic Wise wrote: [DLLs] Definatly overkill :) Yup, and a memory hog/bloat, and make it not very customizable for quick fixes/additions :( http://www.microsoft.com/scripting I think - seach on msdn.microsoft.com or install IE4 I've just been looking through the sites on this and also came

Re: [DUG]: Plugins/MS Scripting Host

1999-03-09 Thread Mark Derricutt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is also the Dream Controls - available from dream.com (?) or DSP. This seems to good to be true as it gives you a full Delphi interpreter and Delphi like environment. Mmmm, now I like the sound of this. We're also using Report Builder for our reports, and

Re: [DUG]: Plugins/MS Scripting Host

1999-03-09 Thread Nic Wise
I've just been looking through the sites on this and also came accross wsh.glazier.co.nz (I remember seeing glazier.co.nz mentioned on here, Ian I think???). Unfortunately I didn't really find anything that gave me pointers in how to link them to my app, I think I delphi orientated

Re: [DUG]: Plugins/MS Scripting Host

1999-03-09 Thread Mark Derricutt
Dennis Chuah wrote: Have you considered using packages? If you build your app and dlls with packages, you will find a big reduction in size. You can also use packages instead of dll. (Well, a package is really just a dll with info about If possible, I want to get away from compiled

Re: [DUG]: Plugins/MS Scripting Host

1999-03-09 Thread Mark Derricutt
Grant Black wrote: imagine in a few years when you get a few thousand lines of perl tying One would hope your 'scripts' are not reaching the thousand lines of code area, if so then its a very complex piece of script, or theres something wrong with the main application :) If your DLL's work