Posted: November 28 2002 at 22:57 | IP Logged

Hi....

I've written a script in VB which uploads motion pictures from X10 cams to my web site every 15 minutes. Works great except.... PH waits for the script to complete before continuing execution, it 'hangs'. I've tried the routine as both a 'Sub' and as a 'Function' with the same results. Files are about a 1/4 meg in size so at my 28.8 this takes the program off line for what seems like forever. Is there a way to call a script and return before it's finished executing?

Thanks, SA

ps. Been using the program for awhile now and love it...

Posted: December 03 2002 at 14:59 | IP Logged

Steve,

Sorry its taken so long to respond.  Ive been out of town for the Thanksgiving holidays.

There is no way to make the script run asynchronously from within PowerHome.  However, based upon your description of what you are doing, it doesn't sound as if you need the script to run within PowerHome.  If the script is not directly attempting to control PowerHome using the PH functions, then you should be able to have PowerHome execute a vbscript asynchronously from the command line.  Even if you are doing some control in the script, you should be able to split the script so that the time-consuming upload portion is by itself and able to be launched from the command line. 

Depending upon the version of Windows you are using and whether or not you've installed Microsoft scripting, just make sure that the script has the extension ".vbs" and launch it using the macro command "Launch App".  If your script was named "upload.vbs" then your Send Keys parameter for the Launch App command would be "wscript upload.vbs".  This will launch the script asynchronously and PowerHome will not wait for it to finish. 

Dave.

Posted: December 03 2002 at 23:01 | IP Logged

Dave,

I just did the Homer Simson, doh... something about not seeing the forest cause the tree's were in the way. Have this 'mother of all vbscripts' and breaking out this sub as a stand alone would be way to easy. Been hacking since the TRS80 day's and appreciate the effort that's gone into PH... keep up the great work....