Where/how to start scripting?

RabanePaco · Post by **RabanePaco** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 4:12 pm

Hi,

I am an old Unix hack, where I have done some scripting (perl, Tcl/tk, etc).

Where should I start with MS scripting? What kind? I get overwhelmed with all the books and versions. Any (book) recommendations? Any basic links?

Thanks.

PS. I LOVE regular expressions (grew up with them. Unix

). Any leads how I could edit id3 tags wit reg.exp.'s? Any leads how to incorporate them in (which?) MM scripts?

trixmoto · Post by **trixmoto** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 7:10 pm

Well the scripting languages on offer are JScript or VBScript - I think VBScript is most commonly used because it's a fuller implementation.

Probably the best place to start looking is the wiki: http://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Scripting

Post by **Peke** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 9:24 pm

One of Books I needed to read was MSDN "Microsoft® Visual Basic® Scripting
Edition and Microsoft Windows® Script Host Essentials" also I have read "Microsoft® VBScript Professional Projects" and had brief look at Thomsons "Microsoft® WSH and VBScript Programming for the Absolute Beginner Second Edition" and Online Book apps for editing search several free VBScript Editors,
You can test LargeEdit 2.0 it looks nice and here is list of few others.
I hope it will get you started.

RabanePaco · Post by **RabanePaco** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 11:15 pm

trixmoto wrote:Well the scripting languages on offer are JScript or VBScript

VB scripting I had figured out already

. But there also seem to be 00 versions of (anyway books).

Probably the best place to start looking is the wiki: http://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Scripting

This I hadn't found yet. Seems useful as do Peke's tips.

Thanks.