Is there an easier way to check all 30 boxes on an Internet Explorer page other than the excrutiatingly slow:

 x=0

Do Until x=30

SendKeys " {tab}"

x=x+1

Loop

 

 

Try replacing SendKeys with SendDragonkeys or SendSystemKeys.

The code will probably run faster as a DVC command, although the syntax might be a little different.

Will do. Problem is the shear number of boxes. I was hoping for something like HeardWord "check", "all", "the", "boxes" or a vbs script alternative...

I do this with a for loop and a list (1-5000) to control the number of iterations. 5000 might seem like a lot but I use two different applications which manage a database of over 500,000 items. A couple of hundred iterations are virtually instantaneous, a couple of thousand - maybe two seconds but most of that is redrawing time.

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-Edgar
DPI 15.3, 64-bit Windows 10 Pro, OpenOffice & Office 365, Norton Security, Shure X2U XLR to USB mic adapter with Audio Technica DB135 vocal mic, Asus X299-Deluxe Prime, Intel Core i9-7940X (14 core, 4.3 GHz overclocked to 4.9 GHz), G.SKILL TridentZ Series 64GB (4 x 16GB) DDR4 3333 (PC4 26600) F4-3333C16Q-64GTZ, NVIDIA GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 GV-N1060G1 GAMING-6GD REV 2.0 6GB graphics card with 3 1920x1080 monitors

 

Would you be able to provide an example. How is my loop different from yours that makes it so much faster? Thanks in advance.

Sub Main
   For increment = 1 To Val (ListVar1)
      SendKeys "{Down}", 1
      SendKeys "{Space}", 1
   Next increment   
End Sub

Alan also seems to be using a for loop. You are using a do until loop. As with Alan, I also have to start with the first box ticked. I'm not really sure about how Basic handles for loops and do loops but I suspect that for loops are more commonly used and might have gotten some optimization. The other possibility is that we have faster hardware <shrug>.

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-Edgar
DPI 15.3, 64-bit Windows 10 Pro, OpenOffice & Office 365, Norton Security, Shure X2U XLR to USB mic adapter with Audio Technica DB135 vocal mic, Asus X299-Deluxe Prime, Intel Core i9-7940X (14 core, 4.3 GHz overclocked to 4.9 GHz), G.SKILL TridentZ Series 64GB (4 x 16GB) DDR4 3333 (PC4 26600) F4-3333C16Q-64GTZ, NVIDIA GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 GV-N1060G1 GAMING-6GD REV 2.0 6GB graphics card with 3 1920x1080 monitors

In DPI 15.61, a script like this using SendKeys works just great, faster than SendDragonKeys and just as fast as a DVC command. In earlier versions of Dragon, Alan's advice is absolutely right.

Two or three times a year, I'm tasked with checking thousands of checkboxes on a webpage.

Rather than using a voice command, I use a Macro Express script. I manually do the first checkbox, and then run the macro. It begins by asking how many checkboxes to check. Even when I specify thousands, the script executes almost instantaneously.

Here's what the script looks like:

Variable Set Integer %Num%: Prompt
Repeat Start (Repeat %Num% times)
Text Type (Simulate Keystrokes): <TAB>
Text Type (Simulate Keystrokes): <SPACE>
End Repeat

It would be easy enough to implement something like this in Advanced Scripting, although input boxes appear to be broken in Windows 10. I find that input boxes only occasionally receive focus when Dragon creates them.