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 […]
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PrimalPad updated to export scripts as HTML
Every now and then you need to put a script as its own documentation somewhere. Either on a blog for others to see or on some internal web site for documentation. PrimalPad has been updated to include that functionality.Simply click File – Export to HTML… and it will save your script as colored HTML. The […]
How safe are my scripts in PrimalScript/PrimalForms packages?
This is a question that has come up a lot lately. Our Script Packager used in PrimalScript 2009 and PrimalForms 2009 stores the scripts and additional data files encrypted and in some cases, compressed inside the executable.Some formats create temporary files and use the original Windows tool to run a script; others execute directly from […]
PrimalForms 2009: Exported Script Formatting
In order to start the planning stages of the next version of PrimalForms, we decided to conduct a review the current version. After gathering user feedback on the subject, we concluded that the script formatting needed a makeover to make it easier for the users to read the final script. In order to address user […]
PrimalScript 2011 Features: Piano band enhancement
When I started working with computers, the preferred method of reading, studying and evaluating source code was to print the listing on your dot matrix printer and head to the lake with a pencil.The paper we usually used looked like this: The alternating row color made it easy to follow longer lines. When looking at […]
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, […]
iPowerShell 2.0
Now that PowerShell has been upgraded to version 2.0, it is time for us to release an upgraded version of our well received iPhone app, iPowerShell. So what do we have in store for this version? Obviously, the first thing that we want to support are all of the new PowerShell cmdlets. Not only cmdlets, […]
PowerShell modules and PrimalScript’s Object Browser
The next service build of PrimalScript 2009 (5.0.622) will show registered modules in the object browser under the PowerShell node. Modules have not to be loaded by default to show in the browser, just like snapins they load on demand when you expand a node. This allows you to browse the registered modules on your […]
December Sale
Happy Holidays from the gang at SAPIEN. To celebrate the holiday season, everything at ScriptingOutpost.com is on sale for the month of December! Prices have been reduced 25% on everything offered at ScriptingOutpost.com. So drop by our store and pick up what you need before the year ends! Offer is not available through resellers. Offer […]
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 […]
