does JS communicate with other non-browser programs?

[bscofield]

Hi, I'm a db app. developer and I am re-writing some helps in
javascript & HTML. The Javascript is for form flow and design and HTML
just to display the helps. I use a seperate app. development platform
and need to communicate between it and Javascript. Does javascript
write to memory variables that are accessible to other programs? I
know the "other programs" part is up to me but does JS write to
something that is used to communicate to non-browser programs?

thanks,

 

[Dr John Stockton]

JRS: In article <[email protected]>, seen

Hi, I'm a db app. developer and I am re-writing some helps in
javascript & HTML. The Javascript is for form flow and design and HTML
just to display the helps. I use a seperate app. development platform
and need to communicate between it and Javascript. Does javascript
write to memory variables that are accessible to other programs? I
know the "other programs" part is up to me but does JS write to
something that is used to communicate to non-browser programs?

Javascript, on a Web page, can communicate with VBscript, on that page,
which you didn't ask.

Javascript, in Windows Scripting Host at the command line or in a batch
file, can accept parameters and write to standard output, so it can be
used in conjunction with other processes, which more or less answers
your second question.

<URL:http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/batfiles.htm#Other> may be of some
help.

However, I've not found a congenial description of the javascript
functions available with the WSH DOM; with that, ISTM much more could be
done.

If indeed WSH is compatible with your other programs, you might do
better to ask in a WSH group such as or in