Help with setTimeout and others

[bshul]

Hello experts,

I was able to have windows' phone dialer, dial phone numbers in (on IE webpages), bu simply highlighting the number and right clicking. I added a context menu item "PHONE". clicking on "PHONE" would open a hidden webpage that:
Copied the highlighted phone number to the clipboard and opened another hidden window that executed Dialer.exe, waited a few milliseconds then pasted the clipboard into the dial number field of the dialer and activated the Dial button. Then after a delay, closed all windows involved in the routine.
I used the following code stored in 2 htm documents.

Numb.htm

<script language="javascript"type="text/javascript">
{var SelectedText =window.external.menuArguments.document.selection.createRange().text;
window.clipboardData.setData("Text",SelectedText);}
window.open('C:/numba.htm',"mywindow","menubar=0,statusbar=0,toolbar=0,scrollbars=0,location=0,center=0,resizable=0,width=1,height=1,left=400,top=250");
var wsh = new ActiveXObject('WScript.Shell');
wsh.SendKeys ("{TAB}");
wsh.SendKeys ("{ENTER}");
</SCRIPT>

The last 2 sendkeys were to get rid of the security warning box about running script that windows generated.
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and numba.html

<script language="javascript"type="text/javascript">
var wsh = new ActiveXObject('WScript.Shell');
wsh.Run("C:\\WINDOWS\\Dialer.exe");
setTimeout("wsh.Sendkeys ('^V')",250);
setTimeout("wsh.Sendkeys ('{ENTER}')",260);
setTimeout("wsh.Sendkeys ('%{F4}')",8500);
setTimeout("wsh.Sendkeys ('%{F4}')",8600);
setTimeout("wsh.Sendkeys ('%{F4}')",8800);
</SCRIPT>


I decided to go to Netscape, but that does not have modifiable context menus.

Can you rewrite the above script (or give the same function) in .js,
I would like to activate it by setting up a hotkey to a shortcut to the .js file stored on the desktop, but this takes the focus off the webpage and I don't thin the scripted copy function will work

So far I found that WSH dosen't like:
<script language="javascript"type="text/javascript">

and also

gives an "object expected error
at the settimeout statement

[the_cat]

I see you've answered this yourself in a different post. The thing with script files is that they are implicitly in one language or another, so a file ending in .JS is pure JavaScript, there's no need for a tag to say what script language it is, ditto for a .VBS being pure VBscript.