Windows Scripting Host - WScript.Sleep

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Is there a possibility to call WScript.Sleep ( or WScript.Echo ) from LotusScript?

It is no problem to create the WScript.Shell object and pass e.g. keystrokes to the shell but how about a handle to the WScript object?

(It is a ‘global’ object within vbs scripts and one can call it without initializing the object… but that doesn’t help me within LotusScript)

Any ideas?

Here is what I try to do…

Dim WScript As Variant

Dim WShell As Variant

Set WScript = CreateObject(“???”)

Set WShell = CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”)

WShell.SendKeys(“%FDP”) 'Menu - File - Database - Properties

WScript.Echo(“Test”)

WScript.Sleep 5

Thanks in advance!

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Subject: Windows Scripting Host - WScript.Sleep

Why are you using WScript.Echo instead of Messagebox? And there is a Sleep API you can use, too.

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Subject: RE: Windows Scripting Host - WScript.Sleep

Why are you using WScript.Echo instead of Messagebox?

Yes, I know… and that’s what I would do… It was just an example of what I could do if I had a handle to the WScript object.

And there is a Sleep API you can use, too.

I’m using the API for the sleep function now.

Thanks for your response.

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Subject: RE: Windows Scripting Host - WScript.Sleep

Did you try CreateObject(“WScript”)? Since it’s a top-level object that should work. I haven’t tested it, though.

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Subject: Windows Scripting Host - WScript.Sleep

I asked some friends who work with WMI and WSH and they said you can’t access WScript except from Visual Basic Script. The technical bits are it’s a CHostObj, which implements IHost, and that’s only exposed through debugging symbols. Here’s a blog entry from the developer who created the Windows Scripting Host: Fabulous Adventures In Coding | Microsoft Learn