Change macro processing speed on window switching?

Questions & Suggestions
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Dear list,

I’m trying out keyboard maestro to execute the following chain of actions upon a midi trigger:

  • read a (very small) textfile into a variable
  • bring up a specific window
  • click in a position in that window to open an editable field
  • insert the copied text
  • press tab
  • send a midi message

It works quite well, but the problem is that steps 2-4 take some time to execute. Usually it lasts 0,5s to run these steps. As I have a group of 5 macros, it can run up to 2,5s if all are active simultaneously. Ideally, it would take around 1/3 of the speed.
I wanted to ask, is it possible to:

  • set the processing speed, so that the actions run faster?
  • optimise the actions used?
  • In case not, do you know if it would be faster to make these run through applescript instead?

Best,

jimmy

2

PS: I just found out that typing text is much faster than pasting. Nevertheless, I would be interested in knowing more about speed optimisation and comparison with applescript.

3

Generally, actions run at pretty much full speed. Some things have small delays because otherwise they tend to swamp the system (such as typing has a very short delay between each characters, and command keys a slightly longer delay).

Pretty much the only way to speed things up further is to do less work.