There are a few people I gotta thank: Jon Wojtowicz for his contributions and encouragement, andĭean Edwards for his clever js-highlight.htc behavior which I plugged into this.Designed, developed, and open-sourced by Google, J2CL is a source-to-source compiler that converts Java to Javascript. ScriptConverter was created by Rob Eberhardt of You may use the tool freely, and copy it to use or play with locally, but please do not mirror it publicly without permission. ScriptConverter is a work-in-progress, so use it at your own risk. I'd love to open this up to be a community project. (or are better than existing ones), they're certainly welcome. If you want to contribute regular expressions for constructs which aren't covered If you're interested in the planning & guts: It may not work correctly in other web browsers. ScriptConverter has only been tested in IE6. The remaining 10% you will simply have to convert yourself. It converts the basic & most-used language constructs - the first 90% or so of the work. ScriptConverter does not perform a complete translation. Paste into your editor, and review for any remaining translation work.Paste in your VBScript (clear the original sample VBScript first).Were invested to bring it into the world. Thus, the ScriptConverter tool was conceived, and way too many hours of painful regular expressions creation
Manually converting is a huge pain, and prone to create syntax mistakes.Īfter doing the same syntax conversions and thinking for the nth time that a computer should be doing this, I decided it would. Or a project which was coded in a mish-mash of JS & VBS, and which you need to make consistent? Have you ever inherited a web-project coded with client-side VBScript which had to be upgraded to work in other browsers? It uses Regular Expressions in Javascript to detect the language constructs and map them to the equivalent in Javascript. ScriptConverter performs a basic translation of VBScript code into Javascript code. Sadly, VBScript is pretty much dead and gone (thanks to web standards, Classic ASP → ASP.net, and WSH → Powershell), and these days what you want is probably already written better in Javascript somewhere. I think a lot of script beginners have found it too, and were disappointed when their copy/pasted samples didn't run as-is. I'm glad to know that many have found and benefitted from it. One roadblock is that VBScript has many convenience functions built-in (e.g. I was surprised when a few folks expressed interest in making it a community project, which was exciting, but it didn't go far.Īs a result, it looked exciting(!), but is little more than a prototype. ScriptConverter started as a shortcut for work I often did in 2002-2004. You probably don't want to bother with it.I never anticipated this would get so popular.
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