Open a desktop JS file to display a message/output

Discussion in 'JavaScript' started by bhutz, Oct 17, 2005.

  1. #1
    Hi Guys,
    I am pretty new to javascript but have previously used other people's scripts in some of my webpages in the past.

    This time round I have an application that I am using that displays the caller's phone number but not in a web page. I simply want to display the number in an alert style box, but when I try alert("Caller is ext.459"); I get an error saying object expected.

    This led me to guess that when you use the browser the object already exists so I would like to know how I go about creating the object so I can display alerts amongst other things without using my script in a browser.
    Bascially I would like to be able to double-click a .js file on my desktop and have it display a message, sounds simple enough but all tutorials I have found relate to web base usage of javascript.

    I had the choice of writing this in VBScript, JScript or Javascript and opted for javascript as I think I will also be using this more in the future.

    If anyone could provide some direction or examples in any of these languages that would be a great help for me.

    Thanks for your time
     
    bhutz, Oct 17, 2005 IP
  2. durango

    durango Guest

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    Maybe this might help:

    
    WshShell = WScript.createObject("WScript.Shell");
    WshShell.Popup("Caller is ext.459");
    
    Code (markup):
     
    durango, Oct 17, 2005 IP