While Click at. Can't get the process "X"

Question

The intention is to perform a single click at (x, y). I did try this method found on internet.

tell application "System Events"

    tell process "X"

        click at {350, 50}

    end tell

end tell

And get an error System Events got an error: Can’t get process "X".
After I did carefully look up in the AppleScript dictionary and found that it's a responsibility of

Process Suite

and gave it another shot, but still get the same error.

Can you please suggest what has been done wrong?

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Answer 1

"X" would be the process that you want to perform the click (ex. Safari, Finder, etc). I've found that it can also be omitted.

tell application "System Events"
    click at {0, 0}
end tell

This should activate the Apple menu in the top left. You can use the crosshairs from the screenshot tool (⌘ + ⌃ + ⇧ + 4) to determine coordinates of objects on your screen. If the application needs to be active beforehand you can do something like

tell application "System Events"
    tell process "Safari"
        activate
        click at {20, 40}
    end tell
end tell

While Click at. Can't get the process "X"

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