Resolving Large SENDTEXT Issues

[fthomas]

Something I thought I would share to help the next fellow is a rather unique solution to a unique problem.

One of my automation sequences required me to send about 2,000 words of text into a text block of an application. No matter the time delays or different ideas on using a standard SENDTEXT> command, it would continuously get messed up. I"m sure I could have instituted a time delay between keys sent, but in the end, it would severely increase the time to complete the automation sequence.

A quick and easy solution kind of hit me. What I did is Performed a copy to the clipboard of the variable holding the text to be sent. Then I selected the field to be populated and did a simple CNTRL+v! Voila! The text as a whole is inserted almost instantly and completely error free!

So hopefully this will help someone down the road.

Frank

[Marcus Tettmar]

To insert a delay between keys set SK_DELAY. E.g.

Let>SK_DELAY=50
Sendtext>textblock

That would insert a delay of 50ms between each character.

See help file topic for sendtext command.