First off I'd like to thank the developer(s) of WPKG for all the hard work they've put into this. WPKG has proven to be extremely useful for a network I'm currently setting up. Recently while I was setting this network and WPKG up, I thought it would be nice to have a message window of sorts display to inform the user of what was happening while WPKG was executing. I noticed the messenger service is currently used to inform the user of status updates, but it seemed to take awhile to receive the message plus it'd be nice to have something that didn't depend on the messenger service and looked a bit nicer. So a few days ago or so I set out to code something in jscript that would accomplish just this. My solution makes use of Internet Explorer automation and works for IE5.00 through IE7 (on both Win2k (no/any service packs) and WinXP (tested with SP2)). The code could use some more work and I may clean it up and continue work on it in the following days, but I was mainly concerned about it displaying the same for all mentioned browser versions. My message box solution right now features the ability to simply specify an (optional) "title bar"/header as well as the message text. Both the background and foreground colors of the header and message text can be set, and the message text can be optionally centered. One last thing, on systems with IE7 installed I had to incorporate a workaround to get messages to look like they do in IE5 through IE6. The reason for this is because with IE7, there has been a security check put in place to keep scripts on websites from resizing less than 250px wide and 100px tall (and from setting certain unallowed window positions). Unfortunately I wasn't able to find a way to get around this using pure WSH scripting so I wrote a tiny little AutoIt script (and compiled it to exe form) that bypasses said limitations and it only executes when IE7 is detected. If anyone is interested in what I currently have, let me know and I'll see if I can host it somewhere. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/attachments/20080617/5057a520/attachment.html> |