All right, I give up. Trying to alter the AutoHotkey numeric keypad mouse script to see if it would work with Dragon and Vocola made me dizzy. In the original script, the mouse clicks will work if you say the corresponding keys. However, the problem with the original script was that the keys corresponding to mouse movement could not be spoken; Dragon doesn’t recognize “press keypad right arrow, press keypad left arrow,” etc. So all I wanted to do was edit the part of the script containing the mouse directions and reassign the keys to ones that Dragon could recognize, so that along with Vocola it might give the continuous mouse commands back. (Trying to do it plain with Vocola didn’t work either.)
But after all that, I realized something I should have realized a lot earlier: if Dragon can’t hold down keys, then even if it could recognize the names of the direction keys, it couldn’t necessarily send them properly in order to generate steady mouse movement. Head, desk, and duh.
I guess it’s a relatively small thing, and I’m trying to be lenient with myself lately, which is not easy. I’ve had a medically and financially horrendous time of it lately, and while I’m not entirely out of it, I think it has lessened somewhat and so I’m trying to recover from the stress while I can, before the next thing happens. I’ve decided that the only way I can conceptualize this kind of stress is in terms of relapse and remission – hang on as hard as you can through the relapse, and concentrate on making the most out of your remission without letting the possibility of relapse hang over your head. For the most part, I can do that medically. It’s just a matter of making that analogy work for other areas of my life.
