Because I don't know any REAL programming languages I made an oggenc frontend as an HTML Application (*.hta). It's not finished yet but what is there is quite usable. Try it out and let me know.

Since it's HTA it requires Windows98 or higher and IE5 or higher.

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http://www.geocities.com/mcaines/makeItOgg/makeItOgg.zip

*fingers crossed that it doesn't break for everyone but me...

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Damn I don't miss the days of usimg geocities, xoom, or angelfire for hosting. Just wish I had more bandwidth to push my site. Eh the 2 people a day I get to my 2 pages should be fine with 580kbps. At least since I stopped the MP3 radio station.

I got it just now. Seemed to work just fine.

Updated it. I'm not going to keep spamming this thread/board with 'I updated it' posts, if anyone actually wants this thing they can go here for the newest version:

http://www.geocities.com/mcaines/

C & Q are still welcome here or by email though.

as I'm very interested in html coding could you perhaps tell me where to find a tutorial on such cool stuff ?

Well this entire 'program' if you want to call it that is made using the following:

HTML (XHTML 1.0 aka HTML 5.0)

Cascading Style Sheets (Included as part of XHTML really)

Javascript/Jscript (Jscript is just Microsoft's version of Javascript which includes all the standard stuff plus their own additions. As much as I hate how MS breaks all the web standards, Jscript is better IMO.)

WindowsScript (WS is just some crazy combination of activeX controls which are controlable with script, such as Jscript or even VBscript. It allows you to do things that are beyond the scope of web pages, such as work with files and the registry.)

And the *.hta filetype is essentially still a web document, except Windows treats it like it were an application. It's not subject to the same security limitations as web pages, since the user(supposedly) knows this and will treat it like it is any other application. One cool thing is that there is no compiling process, ha, HTA is about as opensource as you can get!

The biggest part of makeItOgg is just one big commandline generator, it just makes a text string depending on the settings you've chosen.

Do you have any experience with HTML or Javascript?

yeah I have average experiences in HTML 4.01 and CSS but java script was out of my reach yet

Some examples can be found here
www.ogg-vorbis.f2s.com

But this hta seems very interesting since I don't need to go through the hassle a C++ compiler offers . Well, I need to learn java script now

Well I have pretty much zero experience with C or C++, but from what I've heard Javascript (and Jscript) is a chopped down version of Java, and Java is a diluted form of C++. So they all have similarities, the syntax uses some of the same conventions afaik.

For makeItOgg I used mainly simple if else statements, ie:



It's all Jscript except for the one function that sends the commandline to oggenc.exe, which is a simple WS command.

There are a ton of JS tutorials out there, and for Jscript (which again is based on Javascript but also has been improved and enhanced imo) reference go to Micro$ofts MSDN Library @:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default....soriJScript.asp

The WS and HTA stuff is buried in the MSDN 'pit of info' as well.

As for HTML, imo XHTML is the way to go. Much cleaner and strict. Reference for XHTML, CSS, and more can be found @:

http://www.w3.org/

BTW if you find out a way to read and write ogg tags (long shot) using any of these technologies let me know!

all my content is very strict and I use CSS for almost everything so it won't take long to make it XHTML conform. Should be fun . Can't tell you how i like html coding