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How do you guys know? - 4/8/2006 3:47:51 AM

nicklas

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I've been searching around in this forum for some scripts that im might able to learn from.

But I find it impossible!

Do you use logic do get scripts? I mean seriously, look these scripts:

Const SHUTDOWN = 8
strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
& "{impersonationLevel=impersonate,(Shutdown)}!\\" & _
strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colOperatingSystems = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
("SELECT * FROM Win32_OperatingSystem")
For Each objOperatingSystem in colOperatingSystems
ObjOperatingSystem.Win32Shutdown(SHUTDOWN)
Next

Set objExplorer = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")
objExplorer.Navigate "about:blank"
objExplorer.ToolBar = 1
objExplorer.StatusBar = 1
objExplorer.Width = 5000
objExplorer.Height = 5000
objExplorer.Visible = 1

How do people come up with this stuff?!

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RE: How do you guys know? - 4/8/2006 4:47:05 AM

Cybex

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Google...

Just a basic understanding of the language and how logic can be applied to accomplich a certain task.

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RE: How do you guys know? - 4/8/2006 2:46:25 PM

DiGiTAL.SkReAM

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When I joined this board in Sept. of 2005, I knew very little about VBScripting. Ok, I still don't know a lot, BUT... I'm able to get doen pretty much anything that i want to get done - it might not be the best or slickest way of doing it, but it *works*. The point is, nobody just *knows* this stuff... it all comes from experience. For me, the best thing I could have done is join this board. It's awfully hard to sit there looking at a blank screen saying "I wonder what I should try to write to learn this language?" - for me, it's MUCh easier to have well-defined goals. Therefore, i'd browse the posts here where folks were asking questions "How do you get a script to write to a text file?", or "How do you get vbs to copy a file?" for example. I'd think "yeah, how *do* you do that?" and then I'd hit google with "vbscript copy a file" or "vbscript output text file". And I wouldn't stop until I had the answer.
Now, granted, by that time, someone else had already answered the question about 99% of the time, but... I had still learned something.

My point: It made things much easier for me to learn vbs to try answering some of the questions that people asked here. And when I coulnd't get the answer - to read what other folks had replied with.

Either way, you win.

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RE: How do you guys know? - 4/8/2006 8:41:54 PM

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It is the same like, looking under the hood of your car...It doesn't make sense at first sight, only after a little more experience and repetition, you find the logic hidden in that code....

Isn't it fun to program? hahaha

It took a while, but nowadays i know enough about i.e. HTML/VBScript/C++/PHP/CSS/Java/JavaScript/Pascal/BASIC/Batch/etc...and it wasn't easy to get there...

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RE: How do you guys know? - 4/11/2006 8:15:46 AM

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It's Magic, we work in the technology industry, scripting for years, all of a sudden we can type gibberish ;-D

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RE: How do you guys know? - 4/28/2006 9:54:06 AM

daluu

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that sample looks benign compared to truly cryptic programs, like some complex ones written in Perl and C, etc. VBScript is pretty English-like if you have good English skills.

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RE: How do you guys know? - 5/15/2006 4:46:17 AM

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Posting the most cryptic program I can come up with:

In a PDF document this simply prints "Hello World"

ooo...or even better, in C

#include <windows.h>

LRESULT CALLBACK WindowProcedure(HWND, UINT, WPARAM, LPARAM);

char szClassName[] = "MainWnd";

int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPSTR lpCmdLine,
                  int nCmdShow)
{
 HWND hwnd;
 MSG msg;
 WNDCLASSEX wincl;

wincl.cbSize = sizeof(WNDCLASSEX);
 wincl.cbClsExtra = 0;
 wincl.cbWndExtra = 0;
 wincl.style = 0;
 wincl.hInstance = hInstance;
 wincl.lpszClassName = szClassName;
 wincl.lpszMenuName = NULL; //No menu
 wincl.lpfnWndProc = WindowProcedure;
 wincl.hbrBackground = (HBRUSH)(COLOR_WINDOW + 1); //Color of the window
 wincl.hIcon = LoadIcon(NULL, IDI_APPLICATION); //EXE icon
 wincl.hIconSm = LoadIcon(NULL, IDI_APPLICATION); //Small program icon
 wincl.hCursor = LoadCursor(NULL, IDC_ARROW); //Cursor

if (!RegisterClassEx(&wincl))
       return 0;

hwnd = CreateWindowEx(0, //No extended window styles
       szClassName, //Class name
       "", //Window caption
       WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW & ~WS_MAXIMIZEBOX,
       CW_USEDEFAULT, CW_USEDEFAULT, //Let Windows decide the left and top
                                     //positions of the window
       120, 50, //Width and height of the window,
       NULL, NULL, hInstance, NULL);

//Make the window visible on the screen
 ShowWindow(hwnd, nCmdShow);

//Run the message loop
 while (GetMessage(&msg, NULL, 0, 0)>0)
 {
       TranslateMessage(&msg);
       DispatchMessage(&msg);
 }
 return msg.wParam;
}

LRESULT CALLBACK WindowProcedure(HWND hwnd, UINT message,
                                WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
{
 PAINTSTRUCT ps;
 HDC hdc;
 switch (message)
 {
 case WM_PAINT:
       hdc = BeginPaint(hwnd, &ps);
       TextOut(hdc, 15, 3, "Hello, world!", 13);
       EndPaint(hwnd, &ps);
       break;
 case WM_DESTROY:
       PostQuitMessage(0);
       break;
 default:
       return DefWindowProc(hwnd, message, wParam, lParam);
 }
 return 0;
}

< Message edited by TNO -- 5/15/2006 4:49:28 AM >

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