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Size limitation to a vbs ArcScript?

DanikBourdeau — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 03:05:44 GMT

Just wondering if anybody has come across any issues using very large vbs scripts? Mine is just about to top 1000 lines and it got me wondering if I should be concerned.

I may be wrong but as far as I can figure out you can only have 1 script per applet, is this correct?

Thanks

Re: Size limitation to a vbs ArcScript?

RolfBroch — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 07:22:44 GMT

I have not found a size limitation to the vbscript files. The largest I have used are over 10 000 lines of code.
I have also found that in the pc environment, the following link is useful:
http://forums.esri.com/Thread.asp?c=34&f=1180&t=87072
This is quite handy if you have developed a library of routines that you would like to use in several projects (for ex. routines for reading and writing xml files)

The short version is this:

' "Include" routine for Windows VBScript
Sub Include(sIncludeFileName)
On Error Resume Next
Dim pFSO, fInclude, sScript
Set pFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
If pFSO.FileExists(sIncludeFileName) Then
    Set fInclude = pFSO.OpenTextFile(sIncludeFileName)
    sScript = fInclude.ReadAll
    fInclude.Close
    ExecuteGlobal sScript
End If
Set pFSO = Nothing
Set fInclude = Nothing
End Sub

Re: Size limitation to a vbs ArcScript?

DanikBourdeau — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 00:36:33 GMT

Hey Rolf,

10 000 lines of code! I should be good for a while 😉

That's an awesome snippet of code, thanks! I've put it in my little vault.