Archived News from Rob van der Woude's Scripting Pages, 2023 Q3

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News Archives 2023 Q3

• "Big Alain" notified me that my code using CHOICE to generate a delay in batch files was outdated.
It was based on the syntax of MS-DOS's CHOICE command, in Windows 10 its syntax has altered slightly, enough to break the original code.
Separate Windows 10 code has been added to the batch delays page.

Thanks Alain

• ActivateWindow.exe has been updated again:

with the new optional command line switch /P the window to be activated can be searched by program executable name (default without /P: search by window title)

The new functionality was based on code by Hans Passant on StackOverflow.com.

Thanks Hans

• ActivateWindow.exe has been updated:

it now accepts multiple titles on the command line (the first matching title will be used)
with the new optional command line switch /C the program returns the title of the currently active window

The latter functionality was based on code by Jorge Ferreira on StackOverflow.com.

Thanks Jorge

• Inspired by yesterday's base64 addition, I investigated CERTUTIL's features and "discovered" its -hashfile switch.
So I added a new page on generating file hashes in batch files.