VbScriptXtra for Macromedia Director

What is new in VbScriptXtra 2?

VbScriptXtra features:
• VbScriptXtra was rewritten to get clearer internal architecture. Now VbScriptXtra integrates several types of wrapper objects to provide more flexible handling of a data of different nature.
• VbScriptXtra's Binary data wrapper is used to handle BLOB or other binary data including Unicode text. It can also be used as a simple array of bytes or wide chars with possibility to read/write data from files. Binary wrapper of VbScriptXtra is free. You can freely use it in your projects. See License Agreement for more details.
• VbScriptXtra's Date/time wrapper is used to handle date/time data. It offers quite powerful formatting capabilities for date/time values. Date/time wrapper of VbScriptXtra is free. You can freely use it in your projects. See License Agreement for more details.
• GetObject syntax is fully supported now. See GetObject and GetObject2 methods.
• Type casting rules have changed a bit. Lingo symbols passed to VbScriptXtra type casting routines are translated as named constants from the loaded type libraries.
• Older technique of picking named constants as a property of any wrapper object is now excluded due to performance reasons. Instead use wrapper.GetEnum() method to get the value of the specified named constant.
• VbScriptXtra ships with updated ObjectBrowserXtra. You can invoke it with wrapper.Interface() method to view the description of methods and properties provided by the wrapped object. ObjectBrowserXtra is free. See License Agreement for more details.
• VbScriptXtra wrapper objects fully support Macromedia Director's debugger and object inspector. You can now expand object instance to view values of its properties.
• VbScriptXtra is now shipped as a part of ActiveCompanionSet xtras, providing common scripting support for ActiveX objects.