Ramblings, ideas, problems, and solutions

Category: script

  • Sense: Referencing files from wherever you want

    In Sense, you can reference a list to control what your program does. By default, the [line X from_file “file.txt”] references the Sense project folder, but it can reference one of many locations. How this works differs on Windows and Mac, but the approach is much the same.
     

     
    The way you do it, as you can see in the screenshot above, is that you simply enter the path you want to reference. On Windows, that would look like this:c:\result.txt, while on Mac OS X, it would look like this: /Users/Example/Desktop/Sources/results.txt. Keep in mind that you can address any mounted share on either platform.

  • Controlling the version of Java installed

    Every so often, I encounter computers that, among other things, have very specific prerequisites. For SAP CRM and Mobile Sales, more often than not, a specific version of Java should be installed. If it isn’t, problems ensue. Now, while you’ll always have the option of finding out what version is installed through the control panel, there is a much quicker way.
     
    Simply open a command line, and enter the command, and the result will be displayed promptly. The command is:
     
    java -version
     
    Here’s the result:

  • Installing printers using a batch script

    Part of my job is installing printers for users. Now, I could just go on mapping the printserver and finding the printer from there, but that takes a lot of time, as we have some 100 plus printers per printserver. Instead, I spent an hour creating batch scripts, and have since used them to install printers.
     
    The command we need is an extension of the rundll32 command. The basic command is this: rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry. Now, just this will not really help you. You need to define some switches and operators. First off, you might want to know what switches and operators are available to you. To find them, simply open the “run” dialog box, and enter the command rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /?. This will yield an information box looking something like this:
     
    Information box containing shitloads of information
     
    The command I usually use looks something like this:
     
    rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /in /q /n "\\PRINTSERVER\PRINTER"
     
    The switches I use are:
    /in – Adds a network printer connection
    /q – Runs in quiet mode
    /n – Defines what printer to add
     
    There are many possibilities with this script, and I have never seen it fail.