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I am in the final stages of converting a large number of scripts over to AHK_L (I know, I am way behind), and this command is tripping me up. It was given to me by someone in the forums and I never understood what it was doing exactly, but its purpose was to set a javascript box to a number WITH preceding zeroes. Normally the preceding zeroes get trimmed off because javascript treats it like a number, so I assume this command forces it to take it as text.

I can't figure out what the AHK_L equivalent of this command is.

COM_Invoke_(pwb, "document.forms[0].field.value", VT_BSTR:=8, Var)

Easiest way is prolly to just Force a String:

IIRC, specifying the parameter is no longer necessary, if you specify a literal string it will be sent as a literal string:

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That does work, I just wasn't sure how to use it with a variable. a4u gave me the right idea though:

pwb.document.forms[0].field.value := "" var

You shouldn't have to do anything different when using a variable as far as I can tell, these should produce the same result:

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It was trimming the zeroes when I tried it that way.

Which version of AHK_L are you using? It's not trimming them on my version (1.0.92.02).

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num=000122345 assigns a string to num whereas num:=000122345 assigns both a string and a cached binary integer. In the latter case, num is passed as an integer, which effectively strips the leading zeroes.