This script demonstrates the user of a procedure that forces the currently executing script to execute under the WScript scripting host. This forces the output from WScript.Echo statements to be displayed message box dialog. This functionality may be useful in situations where the default scripting host is set to cscript.exe and/or the programmer uses a common set of code to program for wscript.exe and cscript.exe.

Typical usage would see the ForceWScript procedure called at the beginning of a script.

This script demonstrates the use of the Speech API via VBScript. Simply type in the word or phrase that you want to the computer to speak and click OK. Useful for vocalizing the results of a function or literally reading a text file to the user.

Note: To successfully run this code you MUST have the Speech API installed. The Speech API is installed during a complete Office install. If the required libraries are not present on your system, search Microsoft.com for the speech API SDK download. See this page for help on setting up Text To Speech: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306902/

Draws a line (with arrow head) between two given points.

More often than not, if your trying to work out what's going wrong with your subclass of InputStream, why the character encoding is getting lost in your database, or your file format reader is failing, you'll need to dump a byte buffer out in a useable form.

Here's two methods, one which appends to a StringBuffer, one which simply prints out to System.out

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(NB: The line: sb.append( "n" ) ; SHOULD have a leading slash ie: sb.append( "\n" ) ; but the formatter seems to remove it...

Toggles the visibility of an HTML element. Should be part of everyone's javascript toolkit

A prototype function to get an array of elements by id in an array

This should stop your JSP page being cached by browsers and proxies.

It tries to cover all bases, just stick it at the top of any JSP page.

If your entire web application requires this, it would be much more economical to write a J2EE Filter, and run this code for each request before chaining on to the next filter..

If you have ever written a website or java application where people paste stuff in from Word, you are likely to have hit the problem of Word using high ascii chars for "open quotes", "close quotes", reg symbol, etc...

This java class (with a single static method) can replace the most prevalent of these with normal ascii values

Hope it helps someone...

This shows how the computed style of each node differs from the computed style of its parent. The root element, which has no parent, is instead compared against the root of a blank HTML document.

* create a new bookmark called "compute styles" in your firefox toolbar. Place the snippet code in the location field of your "compute styles". click the compute styles bookmark, then click an element on the page with the crosshairs.

This function returns a Date object being set at 12 A.M. It is useful for comparing dates where you don't know if they'll come set at the beginning of the day or not.