Window/client area coordinates differ from AutoIt Window Info Tool

[JohnHenry]

I'm relatively new to AutoIt so forgive me if I'm missing something.

The ControlClick Coords from AutoIt Window Info Tool don't seem to be correct!

I'm trying to access an area on a web page and have simplified my problem to the following script:

ShellExecute("https://www.autoitscript.com/forum/")
WinWaitActive("Forums - AutoIt Forums","",10) ; Wait till loaded

sleep(1000)

Opt("MouseCoordMode", 2)

MouseClickDrag("",104,582,353,582)

The coordinates are those given in the AutoIt Window Info Tool  but the area chosen is above what I selected. I chose the opening page of this forum:

Announcements and Site News

AutoIt releases and site announcements.

I was trying to select the 2nd line (AutiIt ..) but the first line is selected.

Obviously I can experiment and get it right but I would like to find out what I'm doing wrong.

 

[Jfish]

You would be better off referring to the HTML elements directly than using mouse clicks which as you can see can be a bit snarly ... that said, the option you set is for relative coordinates to the client area of the active window.  Have you tried to use the default for the absolute coordinate value (change 2 to a 1)?

Quote

MouseCoordMode Sets the way coords are used in the mouse functions, either absolute coords or coords relative to the current active window:
0 = relative coords to the active window
1 = (default) absolute screen coordinates
2 = relative coords to the client area of the active window