Guest Paul (MVP) Posted September 21, 2006 Report Posted September 21, 2006 Scripting languages... ah... how I miss the 'good old days' of ridiculously long, complex and inappropriate DOS batch files! Now you can relive those days, courtesy of MORTSCRIPT, a scripting language for your Windows Mobile device :rolleyes: You can get the full lowdown at the MortScript site, but here's a bit more about it from the developers themselves... What is it? MortScript interprets a (quite) simple batch language. If you know .bat files in DOS or shell scripts in *nix: it's something like that. Its focus is to remote control or launch other applications, not to write real applications. It's more an hacker tool without a nifty interface, you have to write your scripts with any text editor. For beginners, this might be a bit too complicated. Available commands currently include: * Run, activate, hide, close, and kill programs * Wait functions: certain timespan, wait for existence or activation of windows. * Send keystrokes: carriage return, space, tabulator, ESCape, direction keys, delete, "Print", Ctrl- and any text * Send mouse clicks * File operations: copy, rename/move, delete, create shortcuts * Create and remove directories * Read from and write into the registry (string and dword values) * If conditions, Choice selections and While or Repeat loops * Some system features (e.g. rotation, volume, backlight brightness, soft reset) * Subroutines (Call, Sub/EndSub) * Variables and simple expressions (simple math, string contatenations, ...) There seems to already be some nifty little scripts out there, some of which are posted at GPCarreon's site... I look forward to seeing what MoDaCo members can produce with this tool :( P [Disclaimer: Paul's news catch-up...]
Guest Confucious Posted September 21, 2006 Report Posted September 21, 2006 (edited) Can we have EDLIN to write them with? :rolleyes: Just noticed site nam - sto-helit and Mort? Pratchett fans methinks! Edited September 21, 2006 by Confucious
Guest stevewright Posted September 21, 2006 Report Posted September 21, 2006 What I'd really like (given that I'm Orange so can't afford an "unlimited" GPRS plan) is a program that every hour does the following:Turns on WiFiConnects to an access pointChecks to see if it can access the internet (ping a server)If not, then try another available access point, or turn off WiFi if none are available.Do a send/receive from Pocket OutlookTurn off WiFi.Maybe I'm just lazy :rolleyes: but is this kind of thing possible?
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