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How To Make Dialog Box Interacting With Bat

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Hallow every one,

I have a question.

Is there any easy programing language or software to make a dialog box (GUI Window) which I can run from a bat file and receive one or more inputs (which I want users to provide) passed to that bat file?

I mean, for a batch programing usually we use (set /p <variable>=”<User prompt text string>”) syntax format to prompt a user to provide a input value what required, but I want to give a prompt to users through a dialog box (GUI Window) and receive the input value (wich a user have inputted) directly or indirectly (if not possible directly) passed to the corespondent running batch program.

Is that possible? if it is possible then i want to know in detailed about how to do it.

Can any one help me,

Please help me.

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    1. vis.basic or vbscript are probably what you’re wanting. here’s a vis basic program
      i wrote to put the clipboard contents into a text file. The “dialogue” is simply the
      path/filename where the user wants the clipboard content to go. (It eliminates having
      to use “notepad”, which i hate, and doing a filesave.)

      Attribute VB_Name = “clip”

      Sub main()
      ‘write clipboard into a file
      X = Clipboard.GetText
      c = InputBox(“CLIPBOARD CONTENT: ” + Chr(10) + X + Chr(10) + “file, [line#]: “)
      if ltrim(c)=”” then end
      p = InStr(c, ” “)
      If p > 0 Then
      Line = Mid(c, p + 1)
      c = Left(c, p – 1)
      Open “c:\windows\tempor~1\temp” For Output As #3
      Open c For Input As #1
      For i = 1 To Line
      If EOF(1) Then Exit For
      Line Input #1, k
      Print #3, k
      Next i
      Print #3, X
      Do While Not EOF(1)
      Line Input #1, k
      Print #3, k
      Loop
      Close
      Shell (“move /y c:\windows\tempor~1\temp ” + c), 2
      Else
      On Error GoTo 10
      Open c For Append As #1
      GoTo 20
      10 Resume 11
      11 Open c For Output As #1
      20 On Error GoTo 0
      Print #1, X
      Close #1
      End If
      End Sub
      ‘———————–
      vbscript uses the same command, “inputbox”, so you don’t have to aquire or
      posess a vis.basic platform to use the function, but has the slight disadvantage
      that it is not compiled so your batch file has to go like:
      cscript .\getdata.vbs
      and the “getdata” will probably have to write the data through an intermediate squibfile i believe (i’ve gotten real rusty from not using vbscript for awhile).

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    2. Sorry, for the mis-confusion, Lol! The program i gave was visual basic, not vbscript.
      Two different platforms…
      To do what you want, here is the vbscript “bare bones” version, vbscript first:
      ‘—- begin, getdata.vbs
      set outp=wscript.stdout
      c=inputbox(“what? “)
      outp.write(c)
      ‘———– end
      and here’s the batch that will invoke it:
      ::begin batch script dataget.bat
      @echo off & setlocal
      for /f “tokens=*” %%a in (‘cscript getdata.vbs’) do set x=%%a
      echo the returned value from the gui-box is: %x%
      ::—- end script
      This should work. It is the “absolute zero” of a working demo.
      Of course, make sure all the paths (to programs and scripts) are straight!

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    3. As i don’t know VB and VBSctipt for that region can you post the exact code what i have to have in the getdata.vbs file?

      Black_Blood,

      As nbrane posted, What should go in your VBS file is:

      set outp=wscript.stdout
c=inputbox("what? ")
outp.write(c)

      You will be able to call the to VBScript using this command in a batch file:

      for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('cscript getdata.vbs') do set x=%%a

      Can I put a question here?

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