Thanks Doug and vic, That does it, all though it's a fussy little line of code as if you don't include a space between Click and 0 VBScript flags the error "object doesn't support this property or method." Warm regards. Martin Webster.
--- On Sat, 3/10/12, Doug Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Doug Lee <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: performing a single left mouse click? > To: [email protected] > Date: Saturday, March 10, 2012, 4:34 PM > You have encountered what I regard as > a rather confusing point in > VBScript syntax. > > When calling a function and assigning its result to > something, you > parenthesize the function's arguments: > > x = myFunc(1,2,3) > > But when you call a sub, you don't use parens: > > mySub 1, 2, 3 > > Now it just so happens that a single-argument sub call will > accept > parens anyway: > > mySub(1) > > and > > mySub 1 > > do pretty much the same thing. > > Well almost... > > Putting parens around a single argument forces it to be > passed by > value rather than by reference. So > > mySub(x) > > passes x by value, whereas > > mySub x > > can pass x by reference. > > This confuses people though, because you can see mySub(x) in > someone's > code, assume that means parens are acceptable, try mySub(x, > y), and > find out there's a hole in that logic. mySub(x), (y) would > work, > pointless though that probably is for most applications. > > Hth. > > On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 08:17:40AM -0800, martin webster > wrote: > Hi all, > I am trying to perform a single left mouse button click, so > I open notepad, move the mouse to the "I" in file menu, open > the immediate mode app, and issue the following line of > VBScript: > Mouse.Click(0, 1) > I get the following error cannot use parenthesis when > calling a sub. What's wrong with the line of code above. > When looking at the mouse object Click method there are > parentheses in the method's break down. > Warm regards. > Martin webster. > > -- > Doug Lee, Senior Accessibility Programmer > SSB BART Group - Accessibility-on-Demand > mailto:[email protected] > http://www.ssbbartgroup.com > "While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, > it was done." --Helen Keller > >
