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How to pause the script until a key is pressed in VBScript? I need something that would pause the flow of the program and wait until 'left_arrow' key is pressed.
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Start Task Manager, click on the Processes tab, right-click on wscript.exe and select End Process, and confirm in the dialog that follows. This will terminate the wscript.exe that is executing your script.
You can use WScript. Echo to see exactly what VBScript passes out; if the string you see in the result of WScript. Echo works in a command-prompt window, it will work as the first argument for the Run method.
A script can force itself to pause by calling the WScript Sleep method. The Sleep method accepts a single parameter that indicates how long, in milliseconds, to pause the script. (There are 1,000 milliseconds in a second and 60,000 milliseconds in a minute.)
You don't have a lot of choices. If you have a console script, and I'm assuming you do, you can read input from the user but it only registers when you press [ENTER]. So you could pause until the enter key is pressed. For example:
WScript.Echo "Press [ENTER] to continue..."
' Read dummy input. This call will not return until [ENTER] is pressed.
WScript.StdIn.ReadLine
WScript.Echo "Done."
There's also the old pause command from DOS days. However, shelling a new console window to run pause would cause a second window to appear. You'd need to press a key in that window to return to your script. Probably not what you want.
But apart from third-parties, VBScript has no methods to read keypresses at run-time.
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