I finally did a long-overdue installation of the most recent KB commands updater, and now something I use all the time in OneNote either doesn't work at all or works differently. I have a "daily do list" consisting of 15 lines with checkboxes. Until today, what I would do is put the cursor in the front of that list and say "select down 15" which would cause the current and subsequent 14 lines to be selected. When I tried it just now, moments after running the commands updater, it did nothing when I said "select down 15." I poked around verbally with a couple of alternatives, such as trying "select next 15 lines" which didn't work the same; it skipped the line I was on, and selected the next 15 under them, and it did so painstakingly slowly — taking about 10 seconds to do what previously happened instantaneously.

Honestly, I've used KB so long now that it is synonymous with DNS for me, and so I assumed (wrongly?) that it was actually Dragon that empowered me to say "select down 15" and result in the current and next 14 lines being selected (I think I've used it in Word as well).

I'm curious if the capability to do this got removed or changed in KB, AND I'm also curious to know if there is a workaround — something else I can say to accomplish the same thing.  Suggestions?

Thanks!

Ric M

I've come up with a workaround, but I'm sure there's got to be an easier way. While I don't know how to create macros in KnowBrainer, I do know how to create macros in Macro Express, which I did, and now I can simply say "Press control shift d" — a key combination I thought I could remember and that wasn't being used by OneNote — and it does in fact select down the 15 next lines. 

I've attached the script so y'all can see what it looks like. Since I likely only need this command to be a verbal one, maybe there is a way to re-create this in KB?

control Shift D OneNote Workaround for select down 15.png  (74 KB)

Ric M

I've been using this DVC command forever. It does exactly what you want:

<1to200> Items

SendKeys "{Shift+Down "  + _arg1 + "}"

I've attached the command. Simply import it into your Dragon Command Browser.

Examples:

"10 Items", "156 Items", "99 Items"

1to200 Items.xml  (21 KB)

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Thanks for the prompt suggestions, guys. Life's been crazy recently with lots of client work, so I haven't had a chance to try them. Just didn't want you to think I didn't notice and appreciate your tips and specific instructions!

Ric M

This might require you to do a little bit of experimentation…

First, open up your application, position the mouse, then issue your vocal command ("select down fifteen").

I'm assuming that Dragon/KnowBrainer doesn't type anything into your application.

Now say "show recognition history"; a dialog will open showing your most recent utterances. The second one from the bottom is the one you are interested in (the last one should be "show recognition history"). It will probably look something like <???> And in the column labeled "Command" there should NOT be an X. If there is something there try to post back and give us some idea of what is showing up (maybe a picture?).

You're going to try to figure out if you still have a "Select <direction> <number>" command. Just to be thorough, you should start with Dragon’s Command Browser look for both a global and an application-specific command which starts with the word "select" followed by (probably a list variable) a direction and a numeric list variable. Since I assume that this is a KnowBrainer command, you probably will not find it in Dragon. You will do the same with the KnowBrainer sidebar - look for both global and application-specific commands which start with "select" and see if you see something appropriate.

Back in September 2016 I got my first copy of KnowBrainer’s commands (and up until Lunis did the major pruning of his commands) it had such a command (and up until Lunis did the major pruning of his commands) it looks like this:

Command name="Select <Direction> <1to20>"

Sub Main

if ListVar1 = "Previous" then SendKeys "+{Left "+ListVar2+"}"

if ListVar1 = "Next" then SendKeys "+{Right "+ListVar2+"}"

if ListVar1 = "Left" then SendKeys "+{Left "+ListVar2+"}"

if ListVar1 = "Right" then SendKeys "+{Right "+ListVar2+"}"

if ListVar1 = "Down" then SendKeys "+{Down "+ListVar2+"}"

if ListVar1 = "Up" then SendKeys "+{Up "+ListVar2+"}"

End Sub

I have not downloaded the newest command version yet so it might have gone the way of the dinosaur. However, it should be easy to re-create. If you do re-create it it might make sense to make the final numerical list larger (1 to 50 or 100?).

-Edgar
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Sorry, other replies arrived while I was being pedantic!

-Edgar
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This is a good idea to add KnowBrainer 2017 so we just did. The 2 new commands are Select <Direction> <1to20> and Select <Direction> <1to20> Lines

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Again, I haven't looked at any of the more recent (post-pruning) KnowBrainer commands but, I'm hoping that Select left/right assumes characters and Select up/down assumes lines.

-Edgar
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Take a look at your 1st global KnowBrainer command. You should see <%> KB Build 11-10-2020. If Your 1st command is <1st_9th> Desktop, you are using ancient technology that is more than 4 years old. In any event, it is time to use our KBCommandsUpdater

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You are correct, I have the first command <1^st_9^th> Desktop.  I quite like some of the commands in this version.  If I changed to the latest using the KBCommandsUpdater, will I lose all those commands?  Have you stripped KB right down without some of the earlier version commands in it?

Cheers

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About 50% of rarely used previous commands have been removed but over 4 years of technology has been added; mostly artificial intelligence and VerbalBasic II commands. You can always make a backup copy of the original command set at C:\Users\Lunis Orcutt\AppData\Roaming\KnowBrainer\KnowBrainerCommands\MyKBComands.xml or just say Open KnowBrainer Commands

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