VBScript Articles

Synopsis: Have you ever been to a site where words or sentences are composed of what appear to be two blended colors? Ever wondered how on earth to do it without using a fancy program or wracking your brain trying to figure out which letter should be what color to generate a nice blend in straight HTML coding? Well in this tutorial Ryan Detert plays around with some of the more advanced features that JavaScript offers, as well as some advanced techniques in order to get a nice shading effect.

Techniques: JavaScript, text, font, color, gradients, Gourad shading, hexidecimal numbers

Synopsis: ActiveX is Microsoft's patented Windows technology that allows you to load a type of applet into your web browser. These applets are very much the same as Java Applets and can add an incredible amount of dynamics to your web page - By Ryan Detert.

Techniques: OLE, ActiveX, ActiveX Components, OBJECT, PARAM, VBScript

Synopsis: This article, by Ryan Detert, will show you how to detect client-side browser versions and redirect the client to a web page that is best supported by their browser. And of course, all of this will be done using Microsoft's VBScript

Techniques: Visual Basic Scripting, VBScript, capturing key presses, capturing mouse coordinates, Chr(), UCase(), event, keycode, XOR, offsetX, offsetY, x, y, onClick, onMouseMove, onKeyPress

Synopsis: Ryan Detert describes how to use VBScript to capture key presses and mouse button clicks events

Techniques: Visual Basic Scripting, VBScript, capturuing key presses, capturing mouse coordinates, Chr(), UCase(), event, keycode, XOR, offsetX, offsetY, x, y, onClick, onMouseMove, onKeyPress

Synopsis: Lawrence Elliot introduces VBScript to irt.org, describing the major difference between VBScript and JavaScript, and describing how to include VBScript in a web page

Techniques: VBScript, MSIE, Syntax, Operations, Functions, strings, Arrays, ActiveX, VBScript FAQ