Visual DialogScript

Visual DialogScript (or VDS) is an interpreter programming language (scripting language) for Microsoft Windows. It can be used to create small and fast programs. VDS has a large number of dialog and graphical elements available to create professional looking programs. VDS scripts have access to the Windows API, therefore it is possible to write applications that can perform the same tasks as other other programming languages such as Visual Basic, Perl, Delphi programming language.

=Scripting Language=

VDS was originally developed by Julian Moss (JM-Tech). Later the French company S.A.D.E. s.a.r.l. took over development. Currently VDS is owned by the British company Commercial Research Ltd. Visual DialogScript can be downloaded from the official Visual DialogScript [http://www.dialogscript.com/ website].

Two versions are available:

# The most powerful shareware version of VDS. It comes with a 28 day evaluation period, after which a license must be purchased for continued use. The unregistered version is feature-limited: it is not possible to compile executable files and the Icon Editor is unavailable. Registration will provide a registration code that activates compilation and a supplementary package including the Icon Editor. # The less powerful freeware version of VDS: Personal VDS (PVDS). This version is incapable of compiling executable files, however compiling files is not neccesary as a script file can be executed directly by opening it from Explorer on a system that has PVDS installed on it.

More information and a lot of source code and complete programs can be downloaded from VDSWORLD and the VDSWORLD forums.

=Scripts=

VDS uses easy to remember commands and functions, which refer to English words. For example: info Hello world!

dialog create,,,,,

registry write,USER,MicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRun,MyProgram,%%MyProgramPath

%%MyVariable = @input(Please enter a value:)

=External links=

*[http://www.dialogscript.com/ Visual DialogScript official site] *[http://www.vdsworld.com/ VDSWORLD - Unofficial Community Site] *[http://forum.vdsworld.com/ VDSWORLD Discussion Forum] *[http://es.geocities.com/uvedese/ uVeDeSe - Visual DialogScript Spanish Site]