Dsabled newbie; needs help with keyboard emulation...

[dturley]

usig latest beta and USB-UIRT. ALL works well except one thing... must be me!

trying to auto load plylist, when i put keyboard emulation in a multi-action macro the file/open box opens, cursor blinking in correct spot, but thats all, it stops.
if i make 2 macros; one to 'open file', and a second with only the keyboard emulation [party1.m3u] then it fils in??

i'm disabled w/ALS, my hands barely work and i dont want to hit 2 buttons for every keyboard emulation. what am i doing wrong?

tred both zoom and winamp - same...

[bskchaos]

you should try WACommand
http://nunzioweb.com/daz/WACommand/

It is far better than a complex macro.

[Bitmonster]

bskchaos is right, that you should prefer to avoid emulating keystrokes as much as you can, because this can easily get unreliable. For Zoom Player you can for example give the file through the command line, thus the "Start Application" action.

But if you have no alternative, you can try two things in these situations:

1. Split the keystroke emulation into two actions and add a little pause between them. Every time a keystroke action takes place, EventGhost will try to find the front-most window first. If this window changes while keystrokes are emulated, they might got sent to the wrong window (or better say: not to the window you expected). So first make an action to open the open file dialog, then wait some time and in the final step let it type the filename.

2. Even better, use the "Find Window" action before each keystroke emulation, to state explicitly the right window that should receive the keystrokes. This will also give you the option to wait for the right dialog to pop up and might even work if the window is not the front-most.

[Bitmonster]

Here is an example of the second approach:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<EventGhost Version="1488">
    <Macro Name="Open party1.m3u" Expanded="True">
        <Action>
            Window.FindWindow(u'winamp.exe', None, None, None, None, None, False, 0.0, 0)
        </Action>
        <Action>
            Window.BringToFront()
        </Action>
        <Action>
            Window.SendKeys(u'l', False)
        </Action>
        <Action>
            Window.FindWindow(u'winamp.exe', None, u'#32770', u'', u'Edit', 1, False, 3.0, 0)
        </Action>
        <Action>
            Window.SendKeys(u'party1.m3u', False)
        </Action>
    </Macro>
</EventGhost>

Just copy everything inside the box and paste it to your tree somewhere.