hbcontrol.exe

[Richard Naninck]

Anybody:

In the helpfiles the lines below are found for getting a propertyvalue using hbcontrol.exe.
Where does the return value get stored while using this in vbscript?

Setting a value is simple, but I have no Idea how to get a property.



Getting a Property Value (System Time and Date)

hb_control /O 2345 /S HB4me /C GPV /D "System Time" /P TimeAndDate

[Osler]

Why not use HBControlMod.dll?

Osler

[Richard Naninck]

Good call. Using that now. Not even sure why I didn't think of that. Thanks!

Question remains though

[ScottBot]

Question remains though

If you can capture the standard output (std out) from the command in VB, it should contain the return value. I have no idea how to do that though.

[Richard Naninck]

No idea either. I was thinking about using "command > return value" but without any luck. Glad I posted it though because the hbcontrolmod makes much more sense using in an external script. I use it to capture network packets from my camera control unit. I couldn't het PacketX to work from within HB and so I wscript(ed) it. To get the parsed result into HB I used HBControl.exe and it worked fine until I had to get some value from HB into my script..

[ScottBot]

Maybe you can pipe the output into a file and then read the file.

[Richard Naninck]

I am sure it would work that way. It was just not what I had in mind and while reading the help file on the hbcontrol.exe GetProperty part, it looked so simple... I am glad it isn't

[roussell]

There's a couple of ways to pipe the output of a command to a variable, the long way:

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command.exe > temp.txt
set /p test = < temp.txt
del temp.txt

will place the output of command.exe into and environment variable named 'test'

You can also download export.exe from http://www.xeox.com/index.php?option=co ... 28&lang=en

and use it like this

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export test=`command.exe`

with the same results as the top example.

Terry