Question

Trying to write a windows speech recognition macro. Written using XML and scripting language is JScript. Using ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell"), executables can be, well, executed. But how can we pass an argument to this executable ? Like, if I were to open IE using the above, how can I pass an argument so that it loads with a specified URL(argument) ?

In XML, we could write :

<run command = "C:\Program Files\BlahBlah\MusicPlayer.exe" params = "D:\Music\Music1.mp3"/>

How to do this in JScript ? Or VBScript?
Any help appreciated. 🙂

Answer 1

I was able to run this from JS. I created a console application which accepts an argument and invoked it from web application.

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
    function RunEXE() {
        var oShell = new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell");

        var prog = "D:\\FetchParam.exe";
        oShell.Run('"' + prog + '" INITParam', 1);
    }
</script>