Hi! I have a fair amount of IT experience, but I am new to web programming. I just reviewed a tutorial on VBscript, and it seems to add a tremendous amount of functionality to HTML. This is my question. How do you control when the script executes? How do you say, "Script, don't run until the user clicks this hyperlink!" It seems to me that normal HTML executes sequentially. So it would seem that as soon as the browser hits the "<script>" tag, the script would run.
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My question had two parts-
1) how can I stop the code from running initially?
2) how do I tell it to run when the appropriate event happens?
Since I posted my question, I have learned that subs and functions are not read in the first pass. So that answers (1). I could put a script at the top of the page with a bunch of subs, and they would not run initially.
But what about (2)??? How do I say, "when they press the button [or hyperlink], run mySub?"
1) how can I stop the code from running initially?
2) how do I tell it to run when the appropriate event happens?
Since I posted my question, I have learned that subs and functions are not read in the first pass. So that answers (1). I could put a script at the top of the page with a bunch of subs, and they would not run initially.
But what about (2)??? How do I say, "when they press the button [or hyperlink], run mySub?"
one thing I would watch for is sub routines and functions differ in parameter passing. a function should be used for this task if you want to pass values from the user to interact.
on the quetion of calling a function or sub
the call statement for in the script calls
then you use events to call on user actions
NOTE: these are javascript defined events but mostly available in vbscript as well.
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on the quetion of calling a function or sub
the call statement for in the script calls
then you use events to call on user actions
NOTE: these are javascript defined events but mostly available in vbscript as well.
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just watch out for case in the event handlers. eg:
onClick="mySub()"
you can also call them in vbscript with the
Sub MyButton_OnClick
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onClick="mySub()"
you can also call them in vbscript with the
Sub MyButton_OnClick
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