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Chapter 10 - Scripting Components / Scripting Components Reference

Generic Scripting Component Routines

Using Component-Specific Routines

You can't use the generic scripting component to call a component-specific routine. Instead, you must use an instance of the specific scripting component that supports the routine.

To facilitate the use of component-specific routines, the generic scripting component allows you to identify the scripting component that created stored script data, get an instance of a specified scripting component, and convert between generic script IDs and component-specific script IDs.

If you want to identify the scripting component that created a storage descriptor record but don't want to load the script, use the OSAGetScriptingComponentFromStored function. When you need to use a specific scripting component, the OSAGetScriptingComponent function allows you to get a component instance for that scripting component.

The OSAGenericToRealID and OSARealToGenericID functions allow you to convert between generic script IDs and component-specific script IDs.

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Subtopics

OSAGetScriptingComponentFromStored

OSAGetScriptingComponent

OSAGenericToRealID

OSARealToGenericID