Right click on text vs. right click on hyperlink

Is there a way that Windows script can tell whether the mouse has right
clicked on the text area of a web page, or whether it has right clicked
on a hyperlink on the webpage? I have a Windows script in an htm file
that I want to behavior differently depending on whether the first
condition or the second condition exists .

Thanks,
Larry

mayayana
Wed Jul 20 08:50:59 CDT 2005

In the click event sub you can use something
like the following:

sTag = window.event.srcElement.tagName

Select Case sTag

Case "A" 'link was clicked.

Case "IMG"
if window.event.srcElement.parentElement.tagName = "A" then
'-- it's an image link
end if

Case Else
'-- do code for non-tag.

End Select

--
--
Larry <larry328NOSPAM@att.net> wrote in message
news:#LA4Y#OjFHA.3936@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Is there a way that Windows script can tell whether the mouse has right
> clicked on the text area of a web page, or whether it has right clicked
> on a hyperlink on the webpage? I have a Windows script in an htm file
> that I want to behavior differently depending on whether the first
> condition or the second condition exists .
>
> Thanks,
> Larry
>
>
>
>

Larry
Wed Jul 20 11:32:21 CDT 2005

I'm happy to hear that this is possible to do. But is this code
sufficient to set it up? What I mean is, does the script recognize "A"
as meaning that a hyperlink has been clicked on and "IMG" as meaning
that an image has been clicked on?

Also, what if I don't right click on the page, but simply press the
application key on my keyboard which makes the shortcut menu appear? If
the focus is on the page would opening the menu via the application key
have the same effect as right clicking on the page? In other words,
would the code read it as "Case Else," neither a hyperlink, nor an
image, but just plain text?

Thanks.

"mayayana" <mayaXXyana1a@mindYYspring.com> wrote in message
news:7FsDe.14331$aY6.11404@newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net...
> In the click event sub you can use something
> like the following:
>
> sTag = window.event.srcElement.tagName
>
> Select Case sTag
>
> Case "A" 'link was clicked.
>
> Case "IMG"
> if window.event.srcElement.parentElement.tagName = "A" then
> '-- it's an image link
> end if
>
> Case Else
> '-- do code for non-tag.
>
> End Select
>
> --
> --
> Larry <larry328NOSPAM@att.net> wrote in message
> news:#LA4Y#OjFHA.3936@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > Is there a way that Windows script can tell whether the mouse has
right
> > clicked on the text area of a web page, or whether it has right
clicked
> > on a hyperlink on the webpage? I have a Windows script in an htm
file
> > that I want to behavior differently depending on whether the first
> > condition or the second condition exists .
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Larry
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>

Larry
Wed Jul 20 12:05:06 CDT 2005

Also, you refer to a click event sub. I know click events from forms in
Word VBA. But what does that mean here? Is it a file separate from the
source code of the htm file?

"Larry" <larry328NOSPAM@att.net> wrote in message
news:e86HffUjFHA.2904@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>
> I'm happy to hear that this is possible to do. But is this code
> sufficient to set it up? What I mean is, does the script recognize
"A"
> as meaning that a hyperlink has been clicked on and "IMG" as meaning
> that an image has been clicked on?
>
> Also, what if I don't right click on the page, but simply press the
> application key on my keyboard which makes the shortcut menu appear?
If
> the focus is on the page would opening the menu via the application
key
> have the same effect as right clicking on the page? In other words,
> would the code read it as "Case Else," neither a hyperlink, nor an
> image, but just plain text?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
>
> "mayayana" <mayaXXyana1a@mindYYspring.com> wrote in message
> news:7FsDe.14331$aY6.11404@newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net...
> > In the click event sub you can use something
> > like the following:
> >
> > sTag = window.event.srcElement.tagName
> >
> > Select Case sTag
> >
> > Case "A" 'link was clicked.
> >
> > Case "IMG"
> > if window.event.srcElement.parentElement.tagName = "A" then
> > '-- it's an image link
> > end if
> >
> > Case Else
> > '-- do code for non-tag.
> >
> > End Select
> >
> > --
> > --
> > Larry <larry328NOSPAM@att.net> wrote in message
> > news:#LA4Y#OjFHA.3936@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > > Is there a way that Windows script can tell whether the mouse has
> right
> > > clicked on the text area of a web page, or whether it has right
> clicked
> > > on a hyperlink on the webpage? I have a Windows script in an htm
> file
> > > that I want to behavior differently depending on whether the first
> > > condition or the second condition exists .
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Larry
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

mayayana
Wed Jul 20 19:52:19 CDT 2005

I am assuming that you want to do this
in a webpage opened in Internet Explorer,
so the code I posted is showing how to do
it with the Internet Explorer Document Object
model.
Any page in IE is a document object. There is
also an implied window object, where the document
resides. In the document, every HTML tag is an
Element. So you can access the page that way.
Example: A IMG tag is an element. It's tagName
property is "IMG". If a tag contains the IMG tag then
that's its parentElement. You can find out and do just
about anything you want to through that system.

By the "click sub" I meant the click event sub for the
document. There actually isn't any right-click sub but
you can do it like this:

Sub document_onmouseup()
If (Document.parentWindow.event.Button = 2) Then '--right button.
'-- right mouse up.
Else
'-- left mouse up.
End If
End Sub

That sub would provide a way to catch all link
clicks and deal with them.
You can also do it per-link by giving an ID to the A tag.
If you use something like:
<A HREF="somewhere.com.index.html" ID="A1"></A>

then you can catch the right- click with the onmouseup
event of the tag itself by using the following sub in the
HEAD of the page:

Sub A1_onmouseup()

Either way you need to handle events in order to catch
the click. I'm not sure what you mean by the "application
key" and "shortcut menu". You mean the context menu
that shows when you right click? You need to catch the
event. Either you would want to use the onkeypress or
onkeyup events, or you could use the oncontextmenu
event. The only problem with the latter is that it doesn't
work in IE4. In IE5 and 6 you can actually block the context
menu from showing by adding this:

Function document_oncontextmenu()
On Error Resume Next
document_oncontextmenu = False
End Function

You can then show your own menu or message, or
do something else, but it doesn't work in IE4 and
I think it doesn't work in IE6 XP SP2. (I think Microsoft
finally realized, to some extent, that they never should
have let web masters control the browser functions in
the first place!)

You saids you wanted to do something when a link
was clicked. If what you actually want to do is to take
an action when the context menu shows then that's
different. But whatever you want to do, you have to
deal with the related events.

The Document Object Model (DOM) is very complex
and somewhat convoluted. It helps to have documentation,
but the only complete and usable docs I know of are to
have a local copy of MSDN. MSDN online is nearly useless
for finding things and takes far too long to load if you need
to jump around to a lot of pages. Ant the IE DOM is just
too big to put into a normal help file.

If you want to get more into it you could check this
download:
http://www.jsware.net/jsware/scripts.html#domed

It might be of some use for reference. The download is
a full scale "WYSIWYG" HTML editor powered only by
VBScript in IE windows. The whole point of it is to
demonstrate how to accomplish various things using
the IE DOM.

Sorry this answer is so rambling, but I'm not sure
exactly what it is that you need to know.
--
--
Larry <larry328NOSPAM@att.net> wrote in message
news:OzzsyxUjFHA.576@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Also, you refer to a click event sub. I know click events from forms in
> Word VBA. But what does that mean here? Is it a file separate from the
> source code of the htm file?
>
>
>
> "Larry" <larry328NOSPAM@att.net> wrote in message
> news:e86HffUjFHA.2904@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> >
> > I'm happy to hear that this is possible to do. But is this code
> > sufficient to set it up? What I mean is, does the script recognize
> "A"
> > as meaning that a hyperlink has been clicked on and "IMG" as meaning
> > that an image has been clicked on?
> >
> > Also, what if I don't right click on the page, but simply press the
> > application key on my keyboard which makes the shortcut menu appear?
> If
> > the focus is on the page would opening the menu via the application
> key
> > have the same effect as right clicking on the page? In other words,
> > would the code read it as "Case Else," neither a hyperlink, nor an
> > image, but just plain text?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "mayayana" <mayaXXyana1a@mindYYspring.com> wrote in message
> > news:7FsDe.14331$aY6.11404@newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net...
> > > In the click event sub you can use something
> > > like the following:
> > >
> > > sTag = window.event.srcElement.tagName
> > >
> > > Select Case sTag
> > >
> > > Case "A" 'link was clicked.
> > >
> > > Case "IMG"
> > > if window.event.srcElement.parentElement.tagName = "A" then
> > > '-- it's an image link
> > > end if
> > >
> > > Case Else
> > > '-- do code for non-tag.
> > >
> > > End Select
> > >
> > > --
> > > --
> > > Larry <larry328NOSPAM@att.net> wrote in message
> > > news:#LA4Y#OjFHA.3936@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > > > Is there a way that Windows script can tell whether the mouse has
> > right
> > > > clicked on the text area of a web page, or whether it has right
> > clicked
> > > > on a hyperlink on the webpage? I have a Windows script in an htm
> > file
> > > > that I want to behavior differently depending on whether the first
> > > > condition or the second condition exists .
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Larry
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

Larry
Wed Jul 20 22:29:58 CDT 2005

Thanks very much. There's a lot here and I will absorb it and get back
to you. In the meantime, to make it clearer what I want, below is the
htm source file that I want to modify. What this script does is allow
me to open in one step the editing page of any archive page in my blog.
(The software I currently have does not allow for this.) Here's the way
it works. I right click on an archive page in my blog, click a button
on the context menu called "Edit Entry," and it runs the htm file that
contains the below Windows script. The script extracts the url of the
web page, opens Word, copies the url into Word, then runs a macro in
Word called EntryEditPageOpen which changes the url of the archive page
into the url of the editing page for that that archive page, then runs
that url and opens the editing page.

Now what I want to do is to make this also work when I am not in the
archive page that I want to edit, but in another page (say the home
page) and am clicking on a hyperlink to that archive page. In that
event, I want the script to recognize that I have clicked on a hyperlink
instead of the text area of web page and to extract the url from the
hyperlink instead of (as in the other instance I described) extracting
the url of the current web page.

Now here's the script

<html>
<head>

<script language="VBScript"></script>
</head>
</html>

mayayana wrote:
> I am assuming that you want to do this
> in a webpage opened in Internet Explorer,
> so the code I posted is showing how to do
> it with the Internet Explorer Document Object
> model.
> Any page in IE is a document object. There is
> also an implied window object, where the document
> resides. In the document, every HTML tag is an
> Element. So you can access the page that way.
> Example: A IMG tag is an element. It's tagName
> property is "IMG". If a tag contains the IMG tag then
> that's its parentElement. You can find out and do just
> about anything you want to through that system.
>
> By the "click sub" I meant the click event sub for the
> document. There actually isn't any right-click sub but
> you can do it like this:
>
> Sub document_onmouseup()
> If (Document.parentWindow.event.Button = 2) Then '--right button.
> '-- right mouse up.
> Else
> '-- left mouse up.
> End If
> End Sub
>
> That sub would provide a way to catch all link
> clicks and deal with them.
> You can also do it per-link by giving an ID to the A tag.
> If you use something like:
> <A HREF="somewhere.com.index.html" ID="A1"></A>
>
> then you can catch the right- click with the onmouseup
> event of the tag itself by using the following sub in the
> HEAD of the page:
>
> Sub A1_onmouseup()
>
> Either way you need to handle events in order to catch
> the click. I'm not sure what you mean by the "application
> key" and "shortcut menu". You mean the context menu
> that shows when you right click? You need to catch the
> event. Either you would want to use the onkeypress or
> onkeyup events, or you could use the oncontextmenu
> event. The only problem with the latter is that it doesn't
> work in IE4. In IE5 and 6 you can actually block the context
> menu from showing by adding this:
>
> Function document_oncontextmenu()
> On Error Resume Next
> document_oncontextmenu = False
> End Function
>
> You can then show your own menu or message, or
> do something else, but it doesn't work in IE4 and
> I think it doesn't work in IE6 XP SP2. (I think Microsoft
> finally realized, to some extent, that they never should
> have let web masters control the browser functions in
> the first place!)
>
> You saids you wanted to do something when a link
> was clicked. If what you actually want to do is to take
> an action when the context menu shows then that's
> different. But whatever you want to do, you have to
> deal with the related events.
>
> The Document Object Model (DOM) is very complex
> and somewhat convoluted. It helps to have documentation,
> but the only complete and usable docs I know of are to
> have a local copy of MSDN. MSDN online is nearly useless
> for finding things and takes far too long to load if you need
> to jump around to a lot of pages. Ant the IE DOM is just
> too big to put into a normal help file.
>
> If you want to get more into it you could check this
> download:
> http://www.jsware.net/jsware/scripts.html#domed
>
> It might be of some use for reference. The download is
> a full scale "WYSIWYG" HTML editor powered only by
> VBScript in IE windows. The whole point of it is to
> demonstrate how to accomplish various things using
> the IE DOM.
>
> Sorry this answer is so rambling, but I'm not sure
> exactly what it is that you need to know.
> --
> > Also, you refer to a click event sub. I know click events from
> > forms in Word VBA. But what does that mean here? Is it a file
> > separate from the source code of the htm file?
> >
> >
> >
> > "Larry" <larry328NOSPAM@att.net> wrote in message
> > news:e86HffUjFHA.2904@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > >
> > > I'm happy to hear that this is possible to do. But is this code
> > > sufficient to set it up? What I mean is, does the script
> > > recognize
> > "A"
> > > as meaning that a hyperlink has been clicked on and "IMG" as
> > > meaning that an image has been clicked on?
> > >
> > > Also, what if I don't right click on the page, but simply press
> > > the application key on my keyboard which makes the shortcut menu
> > > appear?
> > If
> > > the focus is on the page would opening the menu via the
> > > application
> > key
> > > have the same effect as right clicking on the page? In other
> > > words, would the code read it as "Case Else," neither a
> > > hyperlink, nor an image, but just plain text?
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > "mayayana" <mayaXXyana1a@mindYYspring.com> wrote in message
> > > news:7FsDe.14331$aY6.11404@newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net...
> > > > In the click event sub you can use something
> > > > like the following:
> > > >
> > > > sTag = window.event.srcElement.tagName
> > > >
> > > > Select Case sTag
> > > >
> > > > Case "A" 'link was clicked.
> > > >
> > > > Case "IMG"
> > > > if window.event.srcElement.parentElement.tagName = "A"
> > > > then '-- it's an image link
> > > > end if
> > > >
> > > > Case Else
> > > > '-- do code for non-tag.
> > > >
> > > > End Select
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > --
> > > > Larry <larry328NOSPAM@att.net> wrote in message
> > > > news:#LA4Y#OjFHA.3936@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > > > > Is there a way that Windows script can tell whether the mouse
> > > > > has
> > > right
> > > > > clicked on the text area of a web page, or whether it has
> > > > > right
> > > clicked
> > > > > on a hyperlink on the webpage? I have a Windows script in an
> > > > > htm
> > > file
> > > > > that I want to behavior differently depending on whether the
> > > > > first condition or the second condition exists .
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > Larry

mayayana
Thu Jul 21 08:02:26 CDT 2005

That's very clever. I'm guessing that you're the
sort of person who has figured out automated ways
to get your morning paper, make some toast, and put the
coffee on, so that you need only show up and
enjoy. :)

I have a hard time following your example. I'm not
familiar with Word, but also I don't understand where
the "Edit Entry" menu is happening. You say you
right click on an entry "in my blog". You're clicking
a webpage in the software you're using and that shows
the Edit Entry menu? But it's not IE or Word? The code
you have for getting the URL looks like the page is
being clicked in IE. If that's the case then the code I posted
should work. That is, if you're clicking on a copy
of your blog (or your RSS page?) that's hosted in
IE, then in order to get the page associated with a clicked
link you need to do something like add a
document_onmouseup sub, check for the right click in
that sub, get the event source element and check for
tagName, then get the HREF attribute of the tag if it's an
"A" tag. (I'm not positive but offhand I think you could use
getAttribute on the "A" element to get the URL value
of the HREF attribute.)

--
Larry <larry328NOSPAM@att.net> wrote in message
news:e1CGCPajFHA.708@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>
> Thanks very much. There's a lot here and I will absorb it and get back
> to you. In the meantime, to make it clearer what I want, below is the
> htm source file that I want to modify. What this script does is allow
> me to open in one step the editing page of any archive page in my blog.
> (The software I currently have does not allow for this.) Here's the way
> it works. I right click on an archive page in my blog, click a button
> on the context menu called "Edit Entry," and it runs the htm file that
> contains the below Windows script. The script extracts the url of the
> web page, opens Word, copies the url into Word, then runs a macro in
> Word called EntryEditPageOpen which changes the url of the archive page
> into the url of the editing page for that that archive page, then runs
> that url and opens the editing page.
>
> Now what I want to do is to make this also work when I am not in the
> archive page that I want to edit, but in another page (say the home
> page) and am clicking on a hyperlink to that archive page. In that
> event, I want the script to recognize that I have clicked on a hyperlink
> instead of the text area of web page and to extract the url from the
> hyperlink instead of (as in the other instance I described) extracting
> the url of the current web page.
>
> Now here's the script
>
>
> <html>
> <head>
>
> <script language="VBScript"></script>
> </head>
> </html>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> mayayana wrote:
> > I am assuming that you want to do this
> > in a webpage opened in Internet Explorer,
> > so the code I posted is showing how to do
> > it with the Internet Explorer Document Object
> > model.
> > Any page in IE is a document object. There is
> > also an implied window object, where the document
> > resides. In the document, every HTML tag is an
> > Element. So you can access the page that way.
> > Example: A IMG tag is an element. It's tagName
> > property is "IMG". If a tag contains the IMG tag then
> > that's its parentElement. You can find out and do just
> > about anything you want to through that system.
> >
> > By the "click sub" I meant the click event sub for the
> > document. There actually isn't any right-click sub but
> > you can do it like this:
> >
> > Sub document_onmouseup()
> > If (Document.parentWindow.event.Button = 2) Then '--right button.
> > '-- right mouse up.
> > Else
> > '-- left mouse up.
> > End If
> > End Sub
> >
> > That sub would provide a way to catch all link
> > clicks and deal with them.
> > You can also do it per-link by giving an ID to the A tag.
> > If you use something like:
> > <A HREF="somewhere.com.index.html" ID="A1"></A>
> >
> > then you can catch the right- click with the onmouseup
> > event of the tag itself by using the following sub in the
> > HEAD of the page:
> >
> > Sub A1_onmouseup()
> >
> > Either way you need to handle events in order to catch
> > the click. I'm not sure what you mean by the "application
> > key" and "shortcut menu". You mean the context menu
> > that shows when you right click? You need to catch the
> > event. Either you would want to use the onkeypress or
> > onkeyup events, or you could use the oncontextmenu
> > event. The only problem with the latter is that it doesn't
> > work in IE4. In IE5 and 6 you can actually block the context
> > menu from showing by adding this:
> >
> > Function document_oncontextmenu()
> > On Error Resume Next
> > document_oncontextmenu = False
> > End Function
> >
> > You can then show your own menu or message, or
> > do something else, but it doesn't work in IE4 and
> > I think it doesn't work in IE6 XP SP2. (I think Microsoft
> > finally realized, to some extent, that they never should
> > have let web masters control the browser functions in
> > the first place!)
> >
> > You saids you wanted to do something when a link
> > was clicked. If what you actually want to do is to take
> > an action when the context menu shows then that's
> > different. But whatever you want to do, you have to
> > deal with the related events.
> >
> > The Document Object Model (DOM) is very complex
> > and somewhat convoluted. It helps to have documentation,
> > but the only complete and usable docs I know of are to
> > have a local copy of MSDN. MSDN online is nearly useless
> > for finding things and takes far too long to load if you need
> > to jump around to a lot of pages. Ant the IE DOM is just
> > too big to put into a normal help file.
> >
> > If you want to get more into it you could check this
> > download:
> > http://www.jsware.net/jsware/scripts.html#domed
> >
> > It might be of some use for reference. The download is
> > a full scale "WYSIWYG" HTML editor powered only by
> > VBScript in IE windows. The whole point of it is to
> > demonstrate how to accomplish various things using
> > the IE DOM.
> >
> > Sorry this answer is so rambling, but I'm not sure
> > exactly what it is that you need to know.
> > --
> > > Also, you refer to a click event sub. I know click events from
> > > forms in Word VBA. But what does that mean here? Is it a file
> > > separate from the source code of the htm file?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > "Larry" <larry328NOSPAM@att.net> wrote in message
> > > news:e86HffUjFHA.2904@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > > >
> > > > I'm happy to hear that this is possible to do. But is this code
> > > > sufficient to set it up? What I mean is, does the script
> > > > recognize
> > > "A"
> > > > as meaning that a hyperlink has been clicked on and "IMG" as
> > > > meaning that an image has been clicked on?
> > > >
> > > > Also, what if I don't right click on the page, but simply press
> > > > the application key on my keyboard which makes the shortcut menu
> > > > appear?
> > > If
> > > > the focus is on the page would opening the menu via the
> > > > application
> > > key
> > > > have the same effect as right clicking on the page? In other
> > > > words, would the code read it as "Case Else," neither a
> > > > hyperlink, nor an image, but just plain text?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > "mayayana" <mayaXXyana1a@mindYYspring.com> wrote in message
> > > > news:7FsDe.14331$aY6.11404@newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net...
> > > > > In the click event sub you can use something
> > > > > like the following:
> > > > >
> > > > > sTag = window.event.srcElement.tagName
> > > > >
> > > > > Select Case sTag
> > > > >
> > > > > Case "A" 'link was clicked.
> > > > >
> > > > > Case "IMG"
> > > > > if window.event.srcElement.parentElement.tagName = "A"
> > > > > then '-- it's an image link
> > > > > end if
> > > > >
> > > > > Case Else
> > > > > '-- do code for non-tag.
> > > > >
> > > > > End Select
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > --
> > > > > Larry <larry328NOSPAM@att.net> wrote in message
> > > > > news:#LA4Y#OjFHA.3936@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > > > > > Is there a way that Windows script can tell whether the mouse
> > > > > > has
> > > > right
> > > > > > clicked on the text area of a web page, or whether it has
> > > > > > right
> > > > clicked
> > > > > > on a hyperlink on the webpage? I have a Windows script in an
> > > > > > htm
> > > > file
> > > > > > that I want to behavior differently depending on whether the
> > > > > > first condition or the second condition exists .
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > > Larry
>
>

Larry
Thu Jul 21 16:10:08 CDT 2005

Well, I don't seek to automate my breakfast, but I do like reducing
frequently performed computer tasks from three steps to one. For
example, I have a .vbs file that toggles the display of the file
extensions in Explorer. I just click a Winkey combo, and it's done. If
I were to do that the built-in Windows way, I have to go down about
three levels in a menu. N.G.

Yes, you're right, what I'm talking about is right-clicking on an IE
window that is displaying an archive page in my blog. the menu that
appears is the IE context menu, to which I've added several button via
the Registry.

However, your discussion is a bit beyond me and I'm going to have to
work harder at understanding this. I'll back back later.

Thanks for the continuing help.

Larry

"mayayana" <mayaXXyana1a@mindYYspring.com> wrote in message
news:C1NDe.14745$aY6.9797@newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net...
> That's very clever. I'm guessing that you're the
> sort of person who has figured out automated ways
> to get your morning paper, make some toast, and put the
> coffee on, so that you need only show up and
> enjoy. :)
>
> I have a hard time following your example. I'm not
> familiar with Word, but also I don't understand where
> the "Edit Entry" menu is happening. You say you
> right click on an entry "in my blog". You're clicking
> a webpage in the software you're using and that shows
> the Edit Entry menu? But it's not IE or Word? The code
> you have for getting the URL looks like the page is
> being clicked in IE. If that's the case then the code I posted
> should work. That is, if you're clicking on a copy
> of your blog (or your RSS page?) that's hosted in
> IE, then in order to get the page associated with a clicked
> link you need to do something like add a
> document_onmouseup sub, check for the right click in
> that sub, get the event source element and check for
> tagName, then get the HREF attribute of the tag if it's an
> "A" tag. (I'm not positive but offhand I think you could use
> getAttribute on the "A" element to get the URL value
> of the HREF attribute.)
>
> --
> Larry <larry328NOSPAM@att.net> wrote in message
> news:e1CGCPajFHA.708@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> >
> > Thanks very much. There's a lot here and I will absorb it and get
back
> > to you. In the meantime, to make it clearer what I want, below is
the
> > htm source file that I want to modify. What this script does is
allow
> > me to open in one step the editing page of any archive page in my
blog.
> > (The software I currently have does not allow for this.) Here's the
way
> > it works. I right click on an archive page in my blog, click a
button
> > on the context menu called "Edit Entry," and it runs the htm file
that
> > contains the below Windows script. The script extracts the url of
the
> > web page, opens Word, copies the url into Word, then runs a macro in
> > Word called EntryEditPageOpen which changes the url of the archive
page
> > into the url of the editing page for that that archive page, then
runs
> > that url and opens the editing page.
> >
> > Now what I want to do is to make this also work when I am not in the
> > archive page that I want to edit, but in another page (say the home
> > page) and am clicking on a hyperlink to that archive page. In that
> > event, I want the script to recognize that I have clicked on a
hyperlink
> > instead of the text area of web page and to extract the url from the
> > hyperlink instead of (as in the other instance I described)
extracting
> > the url of the current web page.
> >
> > Now here's the script
> >
> >
> > <html>
> > <head>
> >
> > <script language="VBScript"></script>
> > </head>
> > </html>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > mayayana wrote:
> > > I am assuming that you want to do this
> > > in a webpage opened in Internet Explorer,
> > > so the code I posted is showing how to do
> > > it with the Internet Explorer Document Object
> > > model.
> > > Any page in IE is a document object. There is
> > > also an implied window object, where the document
> > > resides. In the document, every HTML tag is an
> > > Element. So you can access the page that way.
> > > Example: A IMG tag is an element. It's tagName
> > > property is "IMG". If a tag contains the IMG tag then
> > > that's its parentElement. You can find out and do just
> > > about anything you want to through that system.
> > >
> > > By the "click sub" I meant the click event sub for the
> > > document. There actually isn't any right-click sub but
> > > you can do it like this:
> > >
> > > Sub document_onmouseup()
> > > If (Document.parentWindow.event.Button = 2) Then '--right
button.
> > > '-- right mouse up.
> > > Else
> > > '-- left mouse up.
> > > End If
> > > End Sub
> > >
> > > That sub would provide a way to catch all link
> > > clicks and deal with them.
> > > You can also do it per-link by giving an ID to the A tag.
> > > If you use something like:
> > > <A HREF="somewhere.com.index.html" ID="A1"></A>
> > >
> > > then you can catch the right- click with the onmouseup
> > > event of the tag itself by using the following sub in the
> > > HEAD of the page:
> > >
> > > Sub A1_onmouseup()
> > >
> > > Either way you need to handle events in order to catch
> > > the click. I'm not sure what you mean by the "application
> > > key" and "shortcut menu". You mean the context menu
> > > that shows when you right click? You need to catch the
> > > event. Either you would want to use the onkeypress or
> > > onkeyup events, or you could use the oncontextmenu
> > > event. The only problem with the latter is that it doesn't
> > > work in IE4. In IE5 and 6 you can actually block the context
> > > menu from showing by adding this:
> > >
> > > Function document_oncontextmenu()
> > > On Error Resume Next
> > > document_oncontextmenu = False
> > > End Function
> > >
> > > You can then show your own menu or message, or
> > > do something else, but it doesn't work in IE4 and
> > > I think it doesn't work in IE6 XP SP2. (I think Microsoft
> > > finally realized, to some extent, that they never should
> > > have let web masters control the browser functions in
> > > the first place!)
> > >
> > > You saids you wanted to do something when a link
> > > was clicked. If what you actually want to do is to take
> > > an action when the context menu shows then that's
> > > different. But whatever you want to do, you have to
> > > deal with the related events.
> > >
> > > The Document Object Model (DOM) is very complex
> > > and somewhat convoluted. It helps to have documentation,
> > > but the only complete and usable docs I know of are to
> > > have a local copy of MSDN. MSDN online is nearly useless
> > > for finding things and takes far too long to load if you need
> > > to jump around to a lot of pages. Ant the IE DOM is just
> > > too big to put into a normal help file.
> > >
> > > If you want to get more into it you could check this
> > > download:
> > > http://www.jsware.net/jsware/scripts.html#domed
> > >
> > > It might be of some use for reference. The download is
> > > a full scale "WYSIWYG" HTML editor powered only by
> > > VBScript in IE windows. The whole point of it is to
> > > demonstrate how to accomplish various things using
> > > the IE DOM.
> > >
> > > Sorry this answer is so rambling, but I'm not sure
> > > exactly what it is that you need to know.
> > > --
> > > > Also, you refer to a click event sub. I know click events from
> > > > forms in Word VBA. But what does that mean here? Is it a file
> > > > separate from the source code of the htm file?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > "Larry" <larry328NOSPAM@att.net> wrote in message
> > > > news:e86HffUjFHA.2904@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm happy to hear that this is possible to do. But is this
code
> > > > > sufficient to set it up? What I mean is, does the script
> > > > > recognize
> > > > "A"
> > > > > as meaning that a hyperlink has been clicked on and "IMG" as
> > > > > meaning that an image has been clicked on?
> > > > >
> > > > > Also, what if I don't right click on the page, but simply
press
> > > > > the application key on my keyboard which makes the shortcut
menu
> > > > > appear?
> > > > If
> > > > > the focus is on the page would opening the menu via the
> > > > > application
> > > > key
> > > > > have the same effect as right clicking on the page? In other
> > > > > words, would the code read it as "Case Else," neither a
> > > > > hyperlink, nor an image, but just plain text?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > "mayayana" <mayaXXyana1a@mindYYspring.com> wrote in message
> > > > > news:7FsDe.14331$aY6.11404@newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net...
> > > > > > In the click event sub you can use something
> > > > > > like the following:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > sTag = window.event.srcElement.tagName
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Select Case sTag
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Case "A" 'link was clicked.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Case "IMG"
> > > > > > if window.event.srcElement.parentElement.tagName =
"A"
> > > > > > then '-- it's an image link
> > > > > > end if
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Case Else
> > > > > > '-- do code for non-tag.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > End Select
> > > > > >
> > > > > > --
> > > > > > --
> > > > > > Larry <larry328NOSPAM@att.net> wrote in message
> > > > > > news:#LA4Y#OjFHA.3936@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > > > > > > Is there a way that Windows script can tell whether the
mouse
> > > > > > > has
> > > > > right
> > > > > > > clicked on the text area of a web page, or whether it has
> > > > > > > right
> > > > > clicked
> > > > > > > on a hyperlink on the webpage? I have a Windows script in
an
> > > > > > > htm
> > > > > file
> > > > > > > that I want to behavior differently depending on whether
the
> > > > > > > first condition or the second condition exists .
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > > > Larry
> >
> >
>
>

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