Investment Studio > ActiveX Scripting > Add engine
The Add engine dialog can be opened using the macro editor's pop-up menu or the download script editor's menu:
Use this dialog to tell Investment Studio about ActiveX Scripting engines which have already been installed under Windows. Installation under Windows is a separate task which must be completed before using this dialog. See the engine manufacturer's documentation for instructions.
The dialog fields have the following meaning:
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Engine
GUID (Globally Unique ID, sometimes also
referred to as Class ID) uniquely identifies the engine.
Every ActiveX Scripting engine has its own GUID. For
instance, the GUIDs of the standard JScript and VBScript
engines are {F414C260-6AC0-11CF-B6D1-00AA00BBBB58} (JScript) and {B54F3741-5B07-11CF-A4B0-00AA004A55E8} (VBScript). ActiveX Scripting hosts need to know these GUIDs in order to connect to the appropriate engine. Without them, they might find themselves trying to feed JScript code to a VBScript engine, or vice versa. |
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Menu
entry is the engine name used in menu items. The ampersand character "&" acts as a control character: in a menu item, it turns the next character into an underlined (accelerator) character. This allows the item to be selected from the keyboard by pressing Alt and the accelerator character. Enter two ampersands ("&&") if you want the menu item to contain a plain ampersand character. |
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Description is the equivalent of Menu entry in just about all other (i.e. non-menu) contexts, e.g. engine selection lists and message windows. |
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File filter is a list of filename extensions associated with the engine. Use semicolons to separate multiple entries, as in "*.pl; *.pls". |
Click OK to
create a new engine record with the specified settings. Click 
to abort and
leave the list of availabe engines unchanged.