Hi Alexander, For the CWT, the scaling functions are not commonly used. For discrete analysis wavelets are typically defined in terms of a multiresolution analysis. A multiresolution analysis is a nested series of subspaces and their orthogonal complements. The bases for the subspaces are the scaling functions (dilated versions of the scaling function for $V_0$) and the wavelets are derived from the scaling functions.
In the CWT, that is not the case. One usually starts with the wavelet, typically some rapidly-decreasing oscillatory function like a modulated Gaussian. You can however obtain the scaling function as the integral, $\int_{s'}^{\infty} \dfrac{\hat{\psi}(s \omega)}{s} ds$ where $s'$ is the maximum scale you have in the CWT. $\hat{\psi}$ here is the Fourier transform of the wavelet.
