Here is a book to tell you and inform you on batch file programming and coding with interesting bits and tutorials on code. Additionally, it includes the link to Nova which is a program designed as a template so you can take its features and impleme...
Personally, i believe batch is the most useful language as a beginner as it's universally accepted from vista to windows 10 and everything in between but it would be naive to believe that it's brother (powershell) doesn't provide a boost of power and potential to a bland and boring batch file. In this tutorial, i will be discussing a feature from my program Nova which uses a powershell program alongside batch to achieve this cool feature which could be used for infinite purposes.
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Here we have the basic version of the Sapi command. This creates the object Sapi and uses it to speak anything within the (""). Now as previously mentioned this is a basic version but there has been code made where in a certain time in the day, Sapi will say some unique dialogue that you have assigned which can be created by the following code below
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As you can see, implementation of this code could be unique for your program and would mean folks are greeted to the voice of there computer differently in the morning and night, which brings me onto the last point
"How could you implement this shell program into batch?"
Well good question, it's rather simple actually. Just put the shell program in the same folder as your batch program and then use the 'start' command followed by the title of your shell program and then vbs as this is what you have to save the file as at the end. Which would look like this
start talk.vbs
Hopefully this has sparked ideas for you as well as expanded your own batch programs in new exciting ways. Stay safe
