Using JScript or JavaScript from eaDocX

[Daniel Sherwood]

Hi

I am trying to use JScript or JavaScript in preference to VBScript for generating documentation, however I don’t seem to be able to get this to work. Using the following code as JScript or JavaScript:

[code]!INC Local Scripts.EAConstants-JScript

function main()
{
Session.Output(“Hello”);
return “Hello”;
}

return main();[/code]

Results in the following error messages…

System[code].Runtime.InteroptServices.COMException (0x800A03F7): Unterminated string constant
at MSScriptControl.ScriptControlClass.AddCode(String code)
at eaDocXAddIn.EAScript.runUsing(Repository Repository, String ElementType, String ElementGuid, String HeadingLevel, String Param1, String Param2, String Param3)
[/code]

…from JScript, or…

[code]Error running script ID: 4[/code]

…from JavaScript.

Please can you confirm that JScript and JavaScript should be supported from eaDocX and provide an example of how it should be used.

Cheers

Daniel Sherwood

[eadocX Support]

i don’t have any examples running with JavaScript, so I can’t say one way or the other.

[Daniel Sherwood]

Hi – thanks for your response. It appears that the issue is that for VBScript, eaDocX is expecting the ‘return’ value of the script to be stored in a variable with the same name as the script which is achieved as a by-product of setting the return value of the function before the end function call.

JScript and JavaScript use a more traditional ‘return’ keyword to return data at the end of the function call which does not result in passing any information back to eaDocX. I presume this means that it is not possible to support JScript or JavaScript in eaDocX?

If this is the case then I will continue using VBScript – but I’d suggest you make a note of this restriction in your documentation.

Cheers

Daniel

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