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Visual DialogScript (or VDS) is an Interpreted Programming Language for Microsoft Windows . VDS is intended primarily for developing Graphical Interfaces quickly, not for building sophisticated applications, however VDS scripts do have access to the Windows API .


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.

Two versions are available:

# A shareware version that 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.
# A freeware version: Personal VDS (PVDS). This version is incapable of compiling executable files, however compiling files is not necessary as a script file can be executed directly by opening it from Explorer on a system that has PVDS installed on it.


SCRIPTS


VDS resembles BASIC . Here are some one-line code samples:

# This is a single line comment

Rem This is a single line comment

# The line below displays a simple Message Box with a single Ok button

info Hello world!

# The line below is the syntax for creating a user definable dialog box

# dialog create,<name>,<top>,<left>,<width>,<height>

# The line below is a single command to write to the Windows registry

registry write,USER,Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run,MyProgram,%%MyProgramPath

# The line below is a function that will display a dialog box with an editbox for the user

# to enter some value. The function returns the value the user entered

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


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