autodelay — spe and slowkeys — time estimation

[T U]

Thank you. I was mostly concerned about being able to rouphly estimate what value I would have to use next to spe to make the characters appear in a certain pace, e.g. 200 ms. What is the connection between the value of spe and the number of characters? If I used spe 1000 and 10 characters I would expect it to finish the macro either in 1 or 10 sec (depending on the connection I ignore), but it does it in 5 sec. Maybe if we didn't talk about how slowly the active window processes keyboard input events but the pace QM is going to send the message at, can you give me an idea?

For the moment I don't think I need much accuracy; it's mostly an effect for the user's eyes (not an effect without meaning, though*). But I also need it for scrolling through catalogs and tree structures by representing the typing of the names of the items they contain and I don't know how accurate this has to be.

With the text and keys dialogs we can only add the slowkeys line and not change the value of spe or in any way choose the speed, right?

If I we want more accuracy can this be done be pressing one key per line, e.g.
key "1"

key "2"

key "3"

key "4"

...

key "0"

and using wait (or some kind of timers) between them or by generally using arrays and loops?


*Sometimes we need the pressing of the keys to be slow enouph for us to understand what is happening but also quick enouph so as to not make the macro too slow.