They both create the same collection object.
The main difference , I think, is instantiating the new ActiveXObject
only works when you are inside the XSI scripting envrionment for
jscript/vbscript. If you are writing an application using the MS
scripting framework outside of XSI, such as a Netview or web interface
for XSI, you'll need to access the XSI object factory to instantiate
XSI specific collections.
On Dec 27, 2007 1:00 PM, Ponthieux, Joey <j.ponthieux(at)nasa.gov
<mailto:j.ponthieux(at)nasa.gov>> wrote:
Yeah, your right, I interpreted this from VBScript code in XSI docs. I
rarely use VBScript and I assumed that it was directly interchangable
with JSCript. This raises an interesting point though. I was unaware
that there are commands derived for specific languages as opposed
to the
languages only changing the basic constructs and syntax. I see
from the
man pages that these are accepted methods for creating an
XSICollection.
VBScript
Set oColl = CreateObject("XSI.Collection")
set oColl = XSIFactory.CreateActiveXObject( "XSI.Collection " )
JScript
var oColl = new ActiveXObject("XSI.Collection") ;
var oColl = XSIFactory.CreateActiveXObject("XSI.Collection");
So I think the question I really meant to ask was what is the
difference
between
var oColl = new ActiveXObject(" XSI.Collection") ;
and
var oColl = XSIFactory.CreateActiveXObject("XSI.Collection");
You've answered that in how it might relate to NetView, but if you are
not writing scripts to be used in NetView is it otherwise assumed
that
they are identical commands? I've been using XSIFactory, I wasn't sure
if this was considered the norm or the exception.
Thanks
Joey Ponthieux
NCI Information Systems Inc.
NASA Langley Research Center
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Bernard Lebel wrote:
> There is no such thing as CreateObject in JScript. You're either
> referring to the VBScript function for creating ActiveX objects,
or to
> new ActiveXObject() of JScript.
>
> I was once told that using the XSIFactory methods in-place of the
> language constructs (new ActiveXObject() for JScript, CreateObject()
> for VBScript) prevented security issues when that code is ran in
> NetView, as ActiveX is generally considered unsecure in browsers.
> That's all I know!
>
>
> Cheers
> Bernard
>
>
>
> On Dec 27, 2007 11:21 AM, Ponthieux, Joey < j.ponthieux(at)nasa.gov
<mailto:j.ponthieux(at)nasa.gov>> wrote:
>
>> Is there any fundamental difference between
>>
>> var oColl = XSIFactory.CreateActiveXObject("XSI.Collection ");
>>
>> and
>>
>> var oColl = CreateObject( "XSI.Collection" );
>>
>> and is it better to use one versus the other?
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Joey Ponthieux
>> NCI Information Systems Inc.
>> NASA Langley Research Center
