GeorgeH 0 Posted October 6, 2011 Hello. I have noticed I cannot access object properties by using square bracket notation (javascript) - is there any reason for that? I was unable to find it in AutoIt documentation. For example: $oBrowser1.window.frames['gnrl_src'].window.frames['pg_src'].frames['main_src'].name doesn't work: Error parsing function call. while "incorrect" (javascript/DHTML) syntax works: $oBrowser1.window.frames('gnrl_src').window.frames('pg_src').frames('main_src').name Dot notation works fine too... $oBrowser1.window.frames.gnrl_src.window.frames.pg_src.frames.main_src.name Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AdmiralAlkex 125 Posted October 6, 2011 Hi and Welcome to the forums!! I'm afraid I don't really understand your question. This is AutoIt, not Javascript. Square brackets just isn't part of our syntax. .Some of my scripts: ShiftER, Codec-Control, Resolution switcher for HTC ShiftSome of my UDFs: SDL UDF, SetDefaultDllDirectories, Converting GDI+ Bitmap/Image to SDL Surface Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DaleHohm 65 Posted October 6, 2011 You can 'eval' a quoted string using the Javascript syntax rules, otherwise you must use AutoIt syntax because it is AutoIt that is walking the object hierarchy. Dale Free Internet Tools: DebugBar, AutoIt IE Builder, HTTP UDF, MODIV2, IE Developer Toolbar, IEDocMon, Fiddler, HTML Validator, WGet, curlMSDN docs: InternetExplorer Object, Document Object, Overviews and Tutorials, DHTML Objects, DHTML Events, WinHttpRequest, XmlHttpRequest, Cross-Frame Scripting, Office object modelAutomate input type=file (Related)Alternative to _IECreateEmbedded? better: _IECreatePseudoEmbedded Better Better?IE.au3 issues with Vista - WorkaroundsSciTe Debug mode - it's magic: #AutoIt3Wrapper_run_debug_mode=Y Doesn't work needs to be ripped out of the troubleshooting lexicon. It means that what you tried did not produce the results you expected. It begs the questions 1) what did you try?, 2) what did you expect? and 3) what happened instead?Reproducer: a small (the smallest?) piece of stand-alone code that demonstrates your trouble Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GeorgeH 0 Posted October 6, 2011 Thanks (not surprisingly I have been lurking around for a while). Yes, I understand that the AutoIt syntax is different from Javascript. But since dot notation was usable, and basically most of DOM 'syntax' was also functional (even possible to just copy&paste), I wondered why square brackets do not work - and I haven't found anything in help/wiki. Basically I have discovered that ('xxx') works instead of ['xxx'] only by trial and error. Reasons for my question were curiosity and need for clarification. So, do I understand it correctly, that square brackets are to be used only for arrays in AutoIT? And in Web Browser DOM (or elsewhere) round brackets are to be used instead (in places of square ones)? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites