VBscript editor 1

[Ben79]

Hi I'm looking for a vbscript editor. Sure Notepad is great but it would be nice to see the code and arguments and such in more colors then black. Anyone got any good freeware editors to share?

Ben

 

[xwb]

If you have office, look for MSE. It may be called MSE7 or have some other strange number after MSE. It is basically the visual studio editor but it is a bit strange - it works quite well if you give your file a .htm extension but not if you give it a .vbs extension. Office XP and Office 2000 put it in different places so you'll have to search for it. You can put a shortcut on your desktop - the default installation doesn't put one for you be default.

Alternatively, try syn from

http://syn.sourceforge.net/

It doesn't try to be clever by working out what object you've assigned something to and then working out the intellisense bit but you get the syntax highlights. It has this annoying thing about creating projects so you end up with a whole bunch of projects with one file each.

Alternatively, if you are a Unix diehard, vim from

http://www.vim.org/

will also do vbscript (and n other languages)

 

[Ben79]

Thanks alot! Syn looks great...

 

[markdmac]

I like PrimalScript. You can get a free trial, but it is not freeware.

You can also ge t afre copy of VB.Net Express edition from Microsoft:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vb/

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

 

[melmitts]

Here is another but it is not free...

http://www.vbsedit.com/

Later...
Mel

 

[EBGreen]

I'll put in my vote for GVim.

http://www.vim.org/

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[Rick998]

Like markdmac, I like PrimalScript and have been using it for years. However, I've been looking at AdminScriptEditor (

http://www.adminscripteditor.com/)

recently, using their 45-day free trial and I must admit that I'm considering changing.

 

[xwb]

The only problem I have with PrimalScript is endif. It is really annoying that it highlights it so you think it is a reserved word. It is acutally an error and cscript moans when it gets to the line which should have been "end if" instead of "endif". I haven't figured out how to add reserved words yet - things like "me

 

[Tactical]

I ended up purchasing vbsEdit after the demo period. It includes lots of functionality and hundreds of sample scripts. Been quite pleased with it...

- Iris

 

[AlexRiedel]

PrimalScript does not color "endif" as a keyword in VBScript.

xwb, what version of PrimalScript do you have?

Alex

 

[PHV]

PrimalScript does not color "endif" as a keyword in VBScript
Perhaps just because the right syntax is:
End If

 

[AlexRiedel]

Yes, I am aware of that.
But xwb says it is colored as a keyword so I am trying to find out how that could happen.

Alexander Riedel
SAPIEN Technologies, Inc.

 

[xwb]

Quite ancient, the version that was around in 2003.

 

[tsuji]

You should then upgrade to some freeware. Or you just win the prize of free upgrade to the what editor you say?

 

[AlexRiedel]

Can you please go into Help about and check at the lower left corner for the exact version and build?

Thanks,

Alex

 

[xwb]

Sorry - my mistake. It was Quick Test Professional that the testers for some odd reason called PrimalScript. Version 6.2 had the problem. It has been fixed on 8.2.

Sorry about the misunderstanding.