Can you use a lib in VBscript??

**rossco11** · Mar 16th, 2001, 07:37 AM

I have some code from VB that checks the wininet.dll file using the lib function as below:

Public Declare Function InternetGetConnectedState Lib "wininet.dll" (ByRef lpSFlags, ByVal dwReserved ) End Function

Can this be done in VBscript, I'm having a tough time finding any information on this.

The goal is to retrieve the connection flags from the dll to verify someone's online status.

Any help much appreciated.

Thanks,

Rossco

**harsoni** · Mar 16th, 2001, 01:09 PM

Hi,
I am sorry to say that u cannot access a System lib through vbscript, this is because IE doesn't allow this due to security issue.... so the other way arround is access the lib using VB DLL function and call this DLL function from VBSCRIPT... i hope this helps

Sonia

**gwdash** · Mar 17th, 2001, 11:15 AM

If your target is IE5, then you can determine the connection with the client Caps behavior. I have a sample, it's just i can't find my book CD, so i don't want to type it in if it's not what you want

**rossco11** · Mar 19th, 2001, 09:04 AM

Thanks for the help!

gwdash, if you have an example for me to use, I'd love to see it.

Thanks again,

Rossco

**gwdash** · Mar 19th, 2001, 07:06 PM

ok, here goes

Code:

<HTML xmlns:IE>
<HEAD>
<STYLE>
@media all {
    IE\:clientCaps {behavior:url(#default#clientcaps)}
}
</STYLE>
<SCRIPT>
function showConnectionType() {
   var thisConnection = oClientCaps.connectionType;

   if (thisConnection == "lan") {
      alert("You are on a LAN (network) connection");
   } else {
      if (thisConnection == "modem") {
         alert("You are on a modem (dial-up) connection");
      } else {
         alert("You are borwsing in offline mode");
      }
   }
}
</SCRIPT>
</HEAD>

<BODY>
   <IE:clientCaps ID="oClientCaps" />
   <SCRIPT>showConnectionType()</SCRIPT>
</BODY>
</HTML>

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