Support for sockets

[Heinz57]

Hello,

are there any plans for the foreseeable future to enhance Macro Scheduler to support sockets / websockets?

I am currently about to connect a runtime ms.exe with my application software to exchange data and commands. For this http works, of course, but has, in my eyes, lots of disadvantages versus sockets.

Best regads

[Dorian (MJT support)]

There are no current plans for this.

[Heinz57]

Hello,

I read in MacroScheduler that one can call VBScripts and also read data via VBEval from a VBScript into a MacroScheduler Array.

I have no experience with the Microsoft VisualStudio environment but I strongly suppose that VBScripts are able to communicate via sockets. I am therefore asking if it is feasible to call from MacroScheduler a VBScript, that communicates with our application via sockets, receives the answers and provides this data back to MacroScheduler. And since VBRun can pass data to a VBScript, this should also work the other way round so that my MacroScheduler code provides the initial data to the VBScript.

Will that work?

I am especially not sure about the differences and limitations of VBScript versus a "full" VisualBasic. But there are various postings etc in forums, which claim that this is possible with MSWINSOCK.Winsock and/or third party additional libraries.

Thank you for your kind reply and
Best regards

[Marcus Tettmar]

Hi,

VBScript and VB are very different.

There's no built in support for sockets in VBScript. There used to be mswinsck.ocx which I'm guessing it *may* have been possible to use with VBScript, but I'm not sure if it even exists any more.

Another option might be to use the socket library with Python:
https://realpython.com/python-sockets/

It might be possible to do that within Macro Scheduler using PyExec.

You might also be able to use a third party ActiveX component. Maybe this?
https://sockettools.com/sockettools-activex-edition/

[Heinz57]

Hello,

and thank you very much for the proposals.

I will investigate them and report the results here so that it might help other users.

Best regards