With the release of our new website some files may no longer be where you remember them to be. Registered users can always download the latest build of their software from their accounts page.You can find that by clicking MySAPIEN on the top right of the SAPIEN home page. The direct URL ishttp://www.sapien.com/account If you […]
Category: Howto
Where can I find support files?
Every now and then we need to provide our customers with files that fix a problem. For our software products we usually do that with our monthly service builds. Most of our training products come on discs though, so there are no service builds. While we update the discs we ship almost continuously, some discs […]
RSEE and security
We have received a couple requests in the last few days to explain the security implications of using our Remote Script Execution Engine (RSEE). The RSEE service must be installed on a target machine and uses a configurable tcp/ip port to listen for incoming script execution requests from a PrimalScript instance. Another port is used […]
Moving to 64 bit: Running PowerShell files in 64 bit from PrimalScript 2009
Last time we looked at running VBScript files in 64 bit from within PrimalScript 2009. As you may recall, the only thing required was to provide a path to the 64 bit CScript.exe or WScript.exe and substituting “sysnative” for “system32”. The rest was all automatic. As I mentioned last time, PowerShell requires some extra work. […]
Moving to 64 bit: Running VBScript files in 64 bit mode from PrimalScript 2009
PrimalScript 2009 usually uses CScript.exe to run VBScript files and captures its output and directs it to the IDE’s output windows. Since PrimalScript 2009 is a 32 bit application the host used is also of the 32 bit variety, residing in the System32 folder of your Windows directory. If you are working on a 64 […]
Moving to 64 bit: Running a 64 bit PowerShell console inside PrimalScript 2009
PrimalScript 2009 is a 32 bit application, so by default it uses the 32 bit version of PowerShell even on a 64 bit machine for the embedded console. If you are dealing with mostly 64 bit server software you may want to make the embedded shell use the 64 bit version of PowerShell. The default […]
Simpler eBook Downloads
SAPIEN Technologies has streamlined it’s ebook download scheme for an easier user experience. Customers that purchase SAPIEN Press ebooks on ScriptingOutpost.com only need to register their license keys on My.SAPIEN.com to instantly download their ebooks. Once registered, a download link appears next to the ebook title. The customer just clicks that link to download their […]
PrimalForms 2009: The Packager and Command line Arguments
Per forum request, this blog provides examples of how to access the packager’s command line arguments as well as provide some useful functions to parse the contents. These examples apply to PrimalForms 2009’s Packager and as well as PrimalScript 2009’s packager. The package’s script host provides a convenient string variable named $CommandLine. This variable contains […]
PrimalForms 2009: OnApplicationLoad Function
Recently on the forums we had a user who wanted to know why he couldn’t initialize the form controls within the OnApplicationLoad function. Seeing how this can result in some confusion, we would like to elaborate on the subject. The purpose of OnApplicationLoad is to initialize any dependencies necessary for your form script to run, […]
Extending PrimalSense for external PowerShell snapins
Getting PrimalSense for a COM object that you didn’t have installed on your development machine is fairly simple: Copy the TLB file (type library) to you machine, associate it to a progid and you are all set. With PowerShell Cmdlets it is not quite that easy. Say you have to use a snapin that is […]
