ThinBASIC COM Server

**ErosOlmi** · 29-07-2008, 10:44

Roberto,

I will check in thinCore.dll what happen when the passed script is a not existing file.
I should have already managed it but I will double check again.

Ciao
Eros

**ErosOlmi** · 29-07-2008, 16:49

Ok, I checked inside thinCore.dll

Problem is there and precisely inside the Dialog Box of the RuntimeError handling function, the dialog used to show runtime error info to the user.

Now I've fixed GPF but there is no dialog. This because RTE dialog is managed by an external DLL (thinRTE.dll) loaded dynamically when an error occurs. Now the loader of this dll is not able to find it because the main executable is not anymore thinBasic.exe but wScript.exe (in case of VBS) or other executable (in case of Excel files, js, ...)

What I'm thinking to do is to incorporate thinRTE.dll functionalities inside main thinBasic engine (thinCore.dll). In this way there will be one dll less and no dependancies.

I will check further in next days.

Regards
Eros

**RobertoBianchi** · 29-07-2008, 17:58

Eros,

maybe it's better not touch thinRTE.dll and thinCore.dll, the important thing is having eliminated the GPF.
Instead we can add the script's existence check to the COM server and later fix the dynamic loading of RTE.
What do you think about?

Ciao,
Roberto

**RobertoBianchi** · 30-07-2008, 15:13

Updated the TBCOMServer.zip attachement with a couple of scripts that show how run a script from a string variable.

Roberto

**Petr Schreiber** · 30-07-2008, 17:17

Thanks Roberto,

worked well for me!
Just that different thinBasic install path on my PC forced me to update paths in test scripts manually.
Not anymore, script slave does the dirty job for me, see attachement

Petr

UPDATED

**RobertoBianchi** · 30-07-2008, 17:35

Amazing, you are a high automated guy!

I also like scripting because it can do a lot of otherwise annoying and repetitive works.

Roberto.

**RobertoBianchi** · 31-07-2008, 12:51

Updated the TBCOMServer.zip attachement with a Power Basic example that show how run a script from a PB executable.

Regards,
Roberto

**Petr Schreiber** · 31-07-2008, 15:23

Thanks Roberto,

worked ok for my PB.
I think the LET <objVar>, SET <objVar> are optional, at least when I put out those keywords, it worked too.
According to help file, SET has been replaced with LET ... and LET is optional

Petr