Just out of laziness, sometimes I do not write commands to make life easier for myself.

For example, for ages I said [Press Alt Tab], to switch to the previous application but then Dragon started misrecognises me (I have cerebral palsy which affects my speech slightly). Put up with this for a while but then came to my senses and created a command [Previous Application], which always works.

Therefore yesterday I came up with the idea of creating a master command for all keystroke combination. So I started with a small list, as follows:-

a\Alpha

b\Bravo

c\Charlie

d\Delta

e\Echo

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Now I am even more confused. I am now in the office, using a different voice profile (which I believe was copied from home several months ago).

On my office PC this command is recognised perfectly (a-e). At the moment it simply displays the contents of ListVar1.

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I sometimes find that when the computer has been on for a while, recognition gets very bad, or certain commands (especially the new ones) stop being recognised as commands. Restarting Windows seems to fix that. There are also times when very weird errors happen, like certain vocabulary items disappearing after I add them, and that's a sign that I need to make a new profile. But I don't know if I've ever run into your situation, where the command works only for some of the list.

In case it saves you time, here is my version of your command. I say "con alpha" instead of "control alpha".

'#Language "WWB-COM"

'Example from list:
' a\alpha

Option Explicit
Dim secret_value As String

Sub Main

secret_value = Left(ListVar1, InStr(ListVar1, "\")-1)
SendDragonKeys "{Ctrl+" & secret_value & "}"

End Sub

If you command is called, for example, con <Letters>, change the list to this:

alpha
bravo
...
zulu

Then try this script:

Option Explicit

Sub Main
Dim secret_value As String
secret_value = Left(ListVar1, 1)
SendDragonKeys "{Ctrl +" & secret_value & "}"
End Sub

Thanks for this. I am happy developing the script, the issue appears to be getting Dragon to recognise the command.

Is there any reason why Dragon would recognise a command when it begins with a word rather than a list. For example [David], instead of []?

Yes what I am doing should be straightforward however eventually I want to develop it so I can press a combination of the modifier keys while still having to say less, or at least something easier from my speech, than for example [Press control alt golf].

Thanks

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Please copy the entire list, and paste it into the forum.

Also, I know you're experimenting with different names for this script, so let us know its current name.

There's no reason you can't start a command name with a list, although I try to avoid doing so. I find scripts are more reliable when I choose a unique, easy-to-remember, easy-to-say first word, e.g., squeeze <my-list> or slide over <my-other-list>.

wheels496, I have now experienced a similar problem, although with a totally different list. One member of a list persistently stopped being recognised in commands. It worked just once when I deleted it and added it again, and then it stopped being recognised again. Two different commands were affected, "list [list]" and "brace [list]".

The problem went away when I created a new profile and imported my old commands in XML format. I did try restarting Windows first, but that didn't help. I am on Dragon 15.61.

I hope you found a similar solution and were not discouraged by our inability to help. In hindsight, I suppose this is not unlike my problems with vocabulary items sometimes going away and refusing to be added again, which is also only solvable by making a new profile.

It looks like it is working again-although admittedly I have not been able to do much work (always a balance between doing my work and developing Dragon to make it easier). I may well have time to work on this today

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