Scottswan Posted December 17, 2004 Share Posted December 17, 2004 I wanted to make a text file about 1.75meg big, so I made a quick script to type a line of text over and over fairly fast into notepad.... ;Set type speed to fast!. Opt("SendKeyDelay", 1) ; Run Notepad. Run("notepad.exe") ; Wait for Notepad to become active. WinWaitActive("Untitled - ") ; Define the count integer. $count = 0 ; Start the loop and specify how many counts to do. While $count < 50000 ; Count 1 on each pass $count = $count + 1 ; Send some text to notepad on each pass. Send("Hey, this is a new line of text. ") ; After the number of counts is done, end the loop. Wend Exit It starts out screaming fast and does about 100 lines then it gradually slows down to a crawl. Ok, lets try something else.... ; Run Notepad. Run("notepad.exe") ; Wait for Notepad become active. WinWaitActive("Untitled - ") ; Define the count integer. $count = 0 ; Send some text to the clipboard. ClipPut("Hey, this is a new line of text. ") ; Start the loop and specify how many counts to do. While $count < 50000 ; Count 1 on each pass $count = $count + 1 ; Paste the text. Send("^v") Sleep(100) ; After the number of counts is done, end the loop. Wend Exit This one does the same thing, starts off fast and slows down to a crawl. It's not critical that I solve this or anything, but I was wondering if anyone could come up with a reason as to why it slows down? Running on win98se, PIII 1ghz, 384meg ram -Scott Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Developers Jos Posted December 17, 2004 Developers Share Posted December 17, 2004 guess its the Notepad wordwrap logic, because you are creating one line. Try it with this statement: Send("Hey, this is a new line of text. {ENTER}" ) SciTE4AutoIt3 Full installer Download page - Beta files Read before posting How to post scriptsource Forum etiquette Forum Rules Live for the present, Dream of the future, Learn from the past. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottswan Posted December 17, 2004 Author Share Posted December 17, 2004 guess its the Notepad wordwrap logic, because you are creating one line.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Ha! Now it's screamin....; Run Notepad. Run("notepad.exe") ; Wait for Notepad become active. WinWaitActive("Untitled - ") ; Define the count integer. $count = 0 ; Send some text and 2 carrige returns to notepad on each pass. ClipPut("Thou shalt not deceive others. ") ; Start the loop and specify how many counts to do. While $count < 50000 ; Count 1 on each pass $count = $count + 1 Send("^v") ; Sleep(5) Send("{Enter}") ; After the number of counts is done, end the loop. Wend ExitI did turn wordwrap on/off, but only while the script was running.... so I mistakenly ruled that out.Thanks-Scott Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolvereness Posted December 18, 2004 Share Posted December 18, 2004 Why don't you use FileWrite()? $file = FileOpen($file, 2) $string = 'Hey, this is a new line of text.' & @CRLF $string = $string & $string & $string & $string & $string For $x = 1 to 10000 FileWrite($file, $string) Next FileClose($file);this saves the file Offering any help to anyone (to my capabilities of course)Want to say thanks? Click here! [quote name='Albert Einstein']Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.[/quote][quote name='Wolvereness' date='7:35PM Central, Jan 11, 2005']I'm NEVER wrong, I call it something else[/quote] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottswan Posted December 18, 2004 Author Share Posted December 18, 2004 Why don't you use FileWrite()?<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Oh yea, there is a number of ways to do that, I was just wondering why the slowdown occurred. I thought it might be a 'governor' built into AutoIt that I ran into.Thats the way it acted.Or a memory glitch with Win98, which would not shock me.-Scott Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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