kunkel321 Posted February 26, 2009 Report Share Posted February 26, 2009 Hi All, I recently got Mind Manager 8, a graphics and plugin-intensive program. It's a major resource hog. I have a simple macro for on-the-fly note taking. It's shortkey-activated and types out "On DDD, M/d/YY, @ t:" It works fine in smaller apps, but does all kind of weird things when I'm typing into the notes area of a MM item. I assume that this is because MM is a HUGE program and maybe because there are so many behind-the-scenes processes going on? Usually it will type out correctly except for leaving out several characters. Other times will type @#%) as though the Shift key was down when the numbers in the date and time are getting entered. One time it even typed the "t" instead of typing out the time... I thought that there was a way to slow down the keystrokes for an individual macro, but I couldn't see how... Ideas one what might cause this or how to fix it? Note that this is not a RAM issue. I have 2 GB. Thanks -steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cory Posted February 26, 2009 Report Share Posted February 26, 2009 Try using the clipboard option to paste instead of typing out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin Posted February 26, 2009 Report Share Posted February 26, 2009 If you do not want to type via the clipboard, as Cory suggests, try the Keystroke Speed command. This command accepts a value in milliseconds so a value of 50 is a fairly large delay. (The Delay after keystrokes setting in the preferences is in microseconds so 300 is a fairly small value.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kunkel321 Posted March 4, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2009 Hy Guys, Thanks for the replies. I haven't totally solved this, but I wanted to give feedback. Slowing down the macro speed didn't seem to help. In most similar scenarios I think it would, but not with Mind Manager. The only thing I can figure is that MM has some type of background process regularly cycling, that takes precedence over MacExpPro. What ever key command is being send to the key que by MEp gets "lost." If the MM event happens to occur right at the end of an operation that involves the Ctrl command, then the Ctrl key is left down and things really get screwed-up. Using the clipboard does work *much* better--still not perfectly though. Portions in the mddle of the "On DDD m/d/yy at HH:MM ampm:" don't get left out anymore with clipboard paste, but about one out of 10 times it will still get stuck in the Ctrl down position. I remedied this by including a Text Type command of: <CTRLUP><CTRLUP><CTRLUP>. This ensures that the Ctrl key isn't left down. Of course the macro still doesn't play properly during the one of of 10 times.... It just essentially aborts. I can live with that though Thanks again -steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cory Posted March 9, 2009 Report Share Posted March 9, 2009 I have several macros for clients that fire keystrokes at Java applets which routinely ignore that what was typed at them. The only solution I found was to enter the text then read it back to make sure it was entered correctly. For instance I might tab forward and back then copy and compare. If not the same then I paste it again. How is the control getting stuck if you are using Text Type command with the "Use Clipboard and Paste Text" option? I'm guessing you're not doing it this way but rather are pasting by using a CTRL+V. If that's the case try sing the method I suggested. Here's the code: <TEXT TYPE Action="1" Text="Type something"/> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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