First attempt at integrating HALi & starCOM

I recently found out that in HAL, I cannot pass variable names as arguments to launching a program. Yet more limitations! To get around this, I'm calling HALi from sC:

// instantiate hali object
var HAL = new ActiveXObject("HALiContol.HAli");
while(HAL.Init()==false) {
  Timer.DoSleep(500);
}

Then when I need to launch something, I have HAL execute a VBScript calling sC and setting a flag. Then sC goes in a grabs the info it needs:

function Devices::FlagUpdate(Index) {
  with (Devices.Flags) {
  case dsOn:
    if (Item(Index).Name=="HALFlag") {
      HALZone = HAL.Sensors.ItemByName("ZONE").State;
      HALPlaylist = HAL.Sensors.ItemByName("PLAYLIST").State;
      Devices.Flags.Item("HALFlag").State=0;
      ShellCmd.Run("perl medianet.pl " + HALZone + " " + HALPlaylist);
    }

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