Albertxu 0 Posted May 30, 2011 Hi all. I am a beginner of AutoIt. I am really grateful for those people who made this wonderful script that we can make ourselves. I want to develop a script that will look up a word from a word list in a pc dictionary by using controlsend function: ControlSend($DicTitle, "", "Edit1", $Entry & "{Enter}", 0) But unfortunately, this script is buggy for my dictionary program. For example, when I look up word "wicked", the dictinary shows "ckedwi", and the meaning actually returns that of "wi". Perhaps that's because the dictionary app react slower than AutoIt and may I slow down the keystroke? And if so, how I can do that? Have a nice day to all! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MHz 80 Posted May 30, 2011 Welcome Albertxu, Add this before you send function Opt('SendKeyDelay', 250); default 5. higher number = slower Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnOne 1,603 Posted May 30, 2011 I'm not certain I understand your problem as I don't know what dictionary program is. If you are sending the word "wicked" to the edit control you could try sending 1 word at a time, with a little sleep pause. Something like this might suit you. $win = "Untitled - Notepad" _MyControlSend($win, "Hello") Func _MyControlSend($DicTitle, $Entry) $aEntry = StringSplit($Entry, "") ; This willmake an array of all letters in string For $i = 1 To $aEntry[0] ControlSend($DicTitle, "", "Edit1", $aEntry[$i]) ;Send each character Sleep(50) ; short sleep delay of 50 ms Next ControlSend($DicTitle, "", "Edit1", "{Enter}") ;finished sending string, now send enter EndFunc ;==>_MyControlSend AutoIt Absolute Beginners Require a serial Pause Script Video Tutorials by Morthawt ipify Monkey's are, like, natures humans. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Albertxu 0 Posted May 30, 2011 Welcome Albertxu, Add this before you send function Opt('SendKeyDelay', 250); default 5. higher number = slower Hi MHZ, just reported to you that your code worked like a charm. I can't love you more since I had been working on this script for one whole day and couldn't figure it out. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites