I'm trying to cause the Google Earth camera to fly to a particular position using a Perl script, but my attempts to alter the camera settings are running into a problem. The following code fails 
use warnings;
use strict;
use Win32::OLE;
my $GE = Win32::OLE->new('GoogleEarth.ApplicationGE');
my $cameraInfo = $GE->GetCamera(0);
$cameraInfo->Range = 500;

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with the error "Can't modify non-lvalue subroutine call at GE.pl line 6." Ok, so maybe I need to treat it as a function call, so I tried 
use warnings;
use strict;
use Win32::OLE;
my $GE = Win32::OLE->new('GoogleEarth.ApplicationGE');
my $cameraInfo = $GE->GetCamera(0);
$cameraInfo->Range(500);

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and got the error "Win32::OLE(0.1707) error 0x80020011: "Does not support a collection" in METHOD/PROPERTYGET "Range" at GE.pl line 6" As I understand it, this means there's something wrong with the argument type, so I tried variations on the argument like '500'. No luck. I can read the parameters fine, such as 
print $cameraInfo->Range;

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which yields the expected result. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong here? If it helps, when I run the following: 
use warnings;
use strict;
use Win32::OLE;
use Data::Dumper;
my $GE         = Win32::OLE->new('GoogleEarth.ApplicationGE');
my $cameraInfo = $GE->GetCamera(0);
print Dumper($cameraInfo);

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I get this: 
$VAR1 = bless( {
                 'FocusPointLatitude' => '38.9594283106337',
                 'FocusPointLongitude' => '-95.2654992558942',
                 'FocusPointAltitude' => '0',
                 'FocusPointAltitudeMode' => 2,
                 'Range' => '11110155.9149248',
                 'Tilt' => '0',
                 'Azimuth' => '-1.00991539999065e-005'
               }, 'Win32::OLE' );

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In reply to Controlling Google Earth via COM interface by jjorsett

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