Custom Dialog Box in vbscript

[nzstorm]

Reposting in the correct forum.

While running a vbscript, I would like to prompt the user with a few inputs that are required to continue with the script.
some variable fields, a few check boxes, maybe a dropdown list, etc.. All in a dialog box.
The only thing I see is InputBox function, but it seems very limited. I would like to customize a dialog box by size, content, fields, etc..

all need to be in a .vbs script, I am not using HTML.
If you could point me to the right direction that would be greatly appreciated.
thanks

 

[xwb]

Instead of a dialog box, would you consider input from the terminal. If so, you could use WScript.stdin and WScript.stdout. eg

WScript.stdout.WriteLine "Who are you?"
nutcase = WScript.stdin.ReadLine
WScript.stdout.WriteLine "Goodbye " & nutcase

 

[dm4ever]

Since you're looking for drop down boxes and checkboxes then you can't do that with VBScript. The closest thing would be to spawn an instance of InternetExplorer from within your script...write out your HTML code to it...then wait for the input and have it returned to the VBScript to continue processing the information.

When would this script be running? If the user would execute it, then maybe an HTA would be better.

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My philosophy: K.I.S.S - Keep It Simple Stupid

 

[nzstorm]

What dm4ever explained seems like something that would work for my application. Do you have any examples of how to do that ?
HTA will not work because I want to execute the vbscript from within a different program and during the execution, a dialog box appears.

 

[dm4ever]

Tom Lavedas shows an exmaple:

http://members.cox.net/tglbatch/wsh/PasswordBox.vbs.txt

I posted another simple example somewhere, but forgot where...if I find it I'll repost here.

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dm4ever
My philosophy: K.I.S.S - Keep It Simple Stupid

 

[ESquared]

Why not write an actual compiled VB application that can have all the rich GUI features you want?

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