Hello,

I was wondering if it is possible to build lists at run time using Dragon naturally speaking scripts?

The reason being I have a script which is called by saying the following 2 words:

IntelliSense <category>

This script opens a database and lists all the available SendKeys statements for the category spoken.

The problem is I'm constantly adding new categories and therefore I'm having to manually edit the script each time.

Please find the script attached in XML format.

It's not the end of the world if this can't be done but it would be nice…

Many thanks for your time and patience.

Mark Phillipson

IntelliSenseScript.xml  (15 KB)

http://mphillipson.users.btopenworld.com/index.htm

No, as a practical matter.

I saw a partial script at least 2 years ago which walked through all the manual steps, but it ended up taking several seconds to add an element to a list so it wasn't very practical but might have use where hands-free usage was more important than time.  e.g. it had a dialog box to define the list element, then closed the dialog, opened Command Browser, went to the Script tab, found the script with the list, opened it, went to the Name Editor, picked the list, did "Edit", added to the list, closed windows.  It was posted on one of the Internet groups discussing Dragon.   As I recall, there was a common error that caused this script to fail at least some of the time.   Or perhaps I just wish I had seen such a script.   If it had worked well, I know several of us would have adopted it for our own use!

Larry Allen
Softnet Systems, Inc.
http://www.pcspeak.com

Larry,

being in the mood for throwing ideas ...

How about trying this with an export of the command in XML format? - Not that I even touched it, but it just sprang to mind here.

Rüdiger

Well, it's past the point where we can make any changes in the code, but we can still make changes to the Easter Egg!

will allow you to directly edit any valid list which is contained in <lists>, note it doesn't call any command but simply directly accesses the list using the commands editor. We did this for Mike Crowe last year.

Sub Main
 Dim EngineControl As New DgnEngineControl
 EngineControl.DlgShow(dgndlgNewCommandWizard, 0, , 0)
 Wait 1
 SendKeys"%m"
 Wait 0.5
 SendKeys "<" & ListVar1 & ">"
 Wait 0.1
 SendKeys"{Tab 2}"
 Wait 0.1
 SendKeys" "
 Wait 0.1
 SendKeys"%e"
 Wait 0.1
 SendKeys"^{End}"
End Sub

The other way to do it:

1)  is edit the MyCmds.dat directly, not easy because it's partially encoded but we do it with ScriptManager.

2) create a new .dat file with one command and your list and directly import it with the engine control's ImportMyCommands

3) similar to 2 but using an XML file as suggested by Rüdiger.

Lindsay

www.pcbyvoice.com
www.pcbyvoice.co.uk

To answer the question more directly you can add a list as follows. This will add a list called <myNamesList> with the following content:

Larry
Rüdiger
Lindsay
Lunis

Takes only a couple of seconds and you may be able to shorten the waits

Sub Main
 Dim EngineControl As New DgnEngineControl
 EngineControl.DlgShow(dgndlgNewCommandWizard, 0, , 0)
 Wait 1
 SendKeys"%m"
 Wait 0.5
 SendKeys"%i", True
 SendKeys"^a", True
 SendKeys"myNamesList", True
 SendKeys"%c", True
 SendKeys"Larry~Rüdiger~Lindsay~Lunis", True
 SendKeys"{Tab}~", True
 SendKeys"~", True
 ControlPick"Cancel"
 Wait 0.1
 SendKeys"%y"
End Sub

Lindsay

www.pcbyvoice.com
www.pcbyvoice.co.uk

Hello,

Thank you for all your replies.

Lindsay your solution works fine thank you very much.

Regards Mark 

http://mphillipson.users.btopenworld.com/index.htm

Sorry, being late to the game, but lists in Advanced Scripting are a red rag to me.

Actually I created an intricate command system with Advanced Scripting for editing lists a while ago, and I used it extensively for quite some time. I created some special commands that I named "zzz3 <mylist>" and "zzz4 <myotherlist>". The commands did nothing; they were just named so I could access them with a script by pressing z a number of times. I could say in a browser "add this website to the list" and it did just that.

However, the scripts were unreliable and worked only about 80 % of the time. The main reason for this was the MyCommands Browser, which is very hard to script and does not really work well with SendKeys commands. For this and other reasons, I gave up using them.

Had I only thought of Lindsay's solution then.

But then again, what I really hate about the lists is that they are limited to 127 characters, which means long URLs, for instance, cannot be stored in them, unless you use some URL shortener. And long file and folder paths would not work, either.

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depending on how fast you need to update the list, this is easy to do in Vocola -- just generate a new include file and it will be used at the start of the next speech utterance.

If you need to continuously update the list (e.g., a list of files in the current Explorer window), then you need to use NatLink.