Cerhost VB 6.0

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Hi all,

I want to make a (VB6.0) program which makes it possible, when clicking a button, to runs CERHOST.EXE and automatically fills in IP address of the host.

(in our factory there are over 50 CX1000 plc's (hosts) each accessible with cerhost, only now we have to type in the 'hostname' or IP-address EACH time...)
Thanks for any help on this,

Eric

Posted 16-Aug-10 23:11pm

Eric from Joure

Updated 18-Aug-10 7:18am

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TheyCallMeMrJames · Answer 1 · 2010-08-18T08:49:00

Solution 1

Is this something you can do with Shell[^]?

There's also an MS article here[^].

Cheers.

Posted 18-Aug-10 8:49am

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Eric from Joure 19-Aug-10 16:55pm

Thanks Mr. James,

I think I could run the program from VB with the shell function. But how do I 'fill in' the IP address. Don't know if there are 'handles' which I could use... Thanks anyway.

Eric

TheyCallMeMrJames 19-Aug-10 17:05pm

Add it to your string when you're making the call. For example, "program.exe 192.168.0.1". This assumes, of course, that the program accepts command line arguments. Is that the case?

Eric from Joure 19-Aug-10 17:16pm

Nope thats not the case. This program (CERHost.exe = CE Remote Host) does not accept line arguments so it will be pretty hard to get it working this way. I did get another tip: use 'macro recorder' to mimic mouse movements which could do the trick. Not a nice solution though...

TheyCallMeMrJames · Answer 2 · 2010-08-19T11:29:00

Solution 3

Time to bust out the old school: pipe the data in through stdin (and save results of stdout).

Here's[^] a KB article.

I think stdin redirection is where you're going to end up, you'll just need to find an approach that works for your situation.

Cheers.

Posted 19-Aug-10 11:29am

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Eric from Joure 19-Aug-10 18:00pm

Cheers to you too mr. James. This i'm afraid is way out of my league. Will read the article though, always learnfull. Goodnight (from Holland),
Eric