The main idea of ActiveCompanionSet is to bundle several xtras developed to provide complete support for COM, OLE, ActiveX technologies for Macromedia Director. The key component of the ActiveCompanionSet is the renewed VbScriptXtra (version 2).
VbScriptXtra allows you to use Lingo in the same way as VbScript to automate applications. Full control over Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Office, Internet Explorer, ADO, ADOX, ADOMD, DAO, system shell and other software and system components right from Lingo. Shipped within ActiveCompanionSet. Among others, VbScriptXtra includes wrapper objects for different types of data. The current version includes wrapper for binary (BLOB) data, wrapper for date/time data. These wrappers are free. See the License Agreement for more details.
The ActiveCompanionSet currently includes VbScriptXtra , revised ObjectBrowserXtra and new OLE xtra . Further versions of the ActiveCompanionSet will include ActiveX visual controls support.
Potentially, any software may support COM Automation technology. Most of Microsoft software fully supports Automation. 'Fully' means anything you can do by hands you can do by script.
Software, which supports Automation (and therefore is supported by VbScriptXtra) includes: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Visual Source Safe, some system components including common open/save dialogs, system shell, Windows Scripting Host, data access components: ADO, ADOX, ADOMD, DAO, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe ImageReady, Microsoft NetMeeting, Collaboration Data Objects (CDO), Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) etc.
Download the demo here.
VBScript Xtra is Copyright © 2001-2009 Eugene Shoustrov
