AlomWare Toolbox Beta

[Ircus]

AlomWare Toolbox 2.00.02​

Spoiler

Zaloguj lub Zarejestruj się aby zobaczyć!

Zaloguj lub Zarejestruj się aby zobaczyć!

 

[Camel1965]

AlomWare Toolbox 2.00.03​

Feb 18, 2024

• Bug fix: Sometimes the app would silently quit after running for a while. This has now been fixed and was due to an incorrect quit signal that could mistakenly get triggered.
• Bug fix: Right-clicking the "Computer: App launch" step has an option to open the app's location in its folder, but this wasn't previously working if the step's prefix was + ? # etc.
• Bug fix: Right-clicking the "Computer: App launch" step has an option to run the selected app, but this wasn't previously working if the step's prefix was + ? # etc. It now runs the app without any prefixes (use "Run selected step" to include them).
• Change: All references to "toast notifications" have been changed to "app notifications" now, due to Microsoft altering that term (
  Zaloguj lub Zarejestruj się aby zobaczyć!
  ).
• Optimisation: The PC tweak to move toast (app) notifications to a different desktop/monitor position has been optimised to release the CPU (it previously was in a tight CPU loop until the notification was dismissed).
• Maintenance release: Internal bug fixes and code optimisations. Updated the "Toolbox.sys" support file. Updates to the instruction manual.

Zaloguj lub Zarejestruj się aby zobaczyć!

 

[Camel1965]

AlomWare Toolbox 2.00.04​

Feb 25, 2024

• Bug fix: For the Power menu's "Quit forcibly" menu options.
• Bug fix: The PC tweak to hide the volume HUD now works on Windows 11.
• Bug fix: Transparency for the Windows 11 "Notification center" now works.
• Addition: New PC tweak to enable transparency for the Windows 11 "Quick Settings" panel.
• Addition: New step called "Mouse: Lock to assigned window", which locks the mouse to the assigned window. Use the "Mouse: Unlock" step to release it, or close the window to release it.
• Addition: New default action called "WindowsLock mouse to current window", which locks the mouse the current window while a hotkey is held down. Useful for being able to easily move the mouse to any window edge without flying past it.
• Powerful addition: New PC tweak called "Create gray notification ghosts (click them to dismiss)", which means you'll never miss an app notification again due to a ghosted copy staying on-screen until you actually click it to dismiss. Please note that this feature won't work for system notifications; and admin notifications will require AlomWare Toolbox to be running as admin as well.
• Maintenance release: Internal bug fixes and code optimisations. Updated the "Toolbox.sys" support file. Updates to the instruction manual with a new "Troubleshooting" section.

Zaloguj lub Zarejestruj się aby zobaczyć!

 

[Camel1965]

AlomWare Toolbox 2.01.00​

===== v2.01.00 (9 Mar 2024) =====

Security fix: All system DLLs used by the app are now force-loaded from the "C:\Windows\System32" folder to prevent DLL hijacking.

Bug fix: Opening the Power menu would sometimes totally crash the app under certain conditions, due to a shared memory bug that went undetected.

Bug fix: For the keyboard PC tweak for "auto-closing of pairs" of brackets, etc; which wasn't working with some laptop keyboards and OS languages.

Bug fix: The opening window state feature, and scheduled task reminders, weren't running some DOS commands (such as those starting with "shell:::").

Bug fix: When quitting the app, some system item transparency tweaks weren't restoring properly due to being overlooked.

Addition: New productivity item in the "Calendar" tab's date list called "End of workday", to show a countdown till the end of your workday (user-definable) or any other daily time.

Maintenance: Internal bug fixes and code optimisations. Updated the "Toolbox.sys" support file. Updates to the instruction manual in the "Troubleshooting" section.

Zaloguj lub Zarejestruj się aby zobaczyć!

 

[Ircus]

AlomWare Toolbox 2.01.01​

Spoiler

Zaloguj lub Zarejestruj się aby zobaczyć!

Zaloguj lub Zarejestruj się aby zobaczyć!

 

[Camel1965]

AlomWare Toolbox 2.02.00​

Mar 29, 2024

• Maintenance: Internal bug fixes and code optimisations. Updated the "Toolbox.sys" support file. Updates to the instruction manual.
• Startup change: Due to Windows security issues, it wasn't possible to run the app with admin rights if "Windows Script Host" wasn't enabled (or even installed) on your PC, which led to a system prompt asking how to open ".VBS" files. Instead of forcing you to enable or install "Windows Script Host" (which requires modifying your PC and is thus contrary to AlomWare Toolbox being portable), we've done away with that approach and the app now comes with two new batch files: "Toolbox Standard.bat" and "Toolbox Admin.bat". You run either of these to start the app now with your desired control level, or just directly run "Toolbox.exe" if you want it as admin. There is an unfortunate brief black pop-up window when these batch files run; this is normal and unavoidable.
• Bug fix: The internal keyboard hook wasn't exiting correctly, which was affecting keys in other third-party apps.
• Bug fix: Macro playback with the Ctrl key could sometimes abort by mistake (bug introduced in v2.00.00, but was unreported until today).
• Change: Aborting macro playback is now done by pressing the Esc key, instead of the Ctrl key. Macros with Esc recorded will still send it. When a macro is aborted, a confirmation message now also pops up.
• Change: Default automated actions are no longer added when using the app for the first time; the user is offered to have them added instead. Also, hotkeys for these actions are no longer set (you must set them yourself).
• Change: The "Keyboard: Type keys" step has been renamed to "Keyboard: Type to active window" to better explain where it will type.
• Change: The "Keyboard: Type to other window" step has been renamed to "Keyboard: Type to selected window" to better explain that you'll get prompted with a window selection for it.
• Addition: New step called "Keyboard: Type to assigned window", to type pre-defined keystrokes to the assigned window, even if it's minimized or doesn't have the focus; and without leaving the current window that you're using.
• Major enhancement: The app now uses the logged-in user's profile folders. This means if you run the app with admin rights from a non-admin account, then an action that saves a file to the desktop will actually use the desktop of the logged-in user instead of the admin account. (In older versions of the app, doing this would make the file not be seen on your desktop until you logged into the admin account).
• Enhancement: If two or more actions with the same clipboard trigger or typing trigger exist, then the duplicates are now shown in red in the Action list to highlight this for you, and the "Trigger" column title will show the number of clashes. However, different text cases are permitted (so "abc" and "ABC" are considered to be different triggers).
• Enhancement: Icons in the screenshot list now reflect the type of screenshot taken. For example, a screenshot of a folder will show a folder icon, and a web page screenshot will have a globe icon, etc. This makes finding your screenshots easier when scrolling through the list. Note that the icons shown are generated on-the-fly from the screenshot's description, so occasionally they might not be accurate.
• Enhancement: Screenshots taken when folders have the focus will now have the screenshot name prefixed with "Folder", for easy filtering in the screenshot list.
• Enhancement: Launching apps with the "Computer: App launch" automated action step now accepts command-line parameters.
• Enhancement: Macro playback now shows an animated icon in the system tray for the app, with a flashing green "play" triangle; so you know not to use your PC until the animation stops when the macro playback ends.
• Enhancement: All functions that execute a DOS command have been rewritten from scratch to more cleanly handle different command scenarios (environment variables like %TEMP% now get fully expanded, etc).
• Enhancement: PC state captures should now relaunch all system tray apps correctly that didn't have an open window at the time of capture.
• Enhancement: The option to right-click a macro action step to convert its speed now allows setting it to 0 milliseconds (the previous lower limit was 1 millisecond).
• Enhancement: The "Image: Save as" step now supports saving the assigned image as a PDF document. Previously it only supported saving as a PNG image.

Zaloguj lub Zarejestruj się aby zobaczyć!

 

[Camel1965]

AlomWare Toolbox 2.02.01​

Apr 9, 2024

• Maintenance: Internal bug fixes and code optimisations. Updated the "Toolbox.sys" support file. Updates to the instruction manual.
• Bug fix: Deleting or renaming an action inside a group that had trigger text was showing duplicate actions for that group (until you manually refreshed the list again).
• Bug fix: Right-clicking an action to add trigger text would not show that text if you did it twice in a row but cancelled the first time. A rare situation but we want the app to be perfect.
• Major addition: Powerful new convenience PC tweak called "Highlight active admin windows when Toolbox is standard", so when you're running Toolbox with standard rights and you click a window, it will show an admin line across the top of the window if that window was run with administrator rights. The admin line is a series of dashes in the Windows admin shield colors of blue/orange. This enables you to instantly see that the window can't be modified, moved, tweaked, or typed to with AlomWare Toolbox because AlomWare Toolbox was run with standard rights. If you run AlomWare Toolbox with admininstrator rights, then this tweak is not needed (the app can access any window) and therefore no admin line will be shown.
• Addition: New automated action called "ComputerDo activity in clipboard", so you can open/run a file from the clipboard text, open a folder/website from the clipboard text, open a Registry key from the clipboard text, or do an equation from the clipboard text to be copied back into the clipboard.
• Enhancement: The Command Box now supports file and folder paths, so you can run/open a file or folder by typing or pasting it into the box and hitting Enter.
• Enhancement: New file rename mod called "From the clipboard list", so you can bulk-rename a folder of files based on a list of text names in the clipboard.
• Enhancement: The Work Overview window now shows tooltips for the text under the window thumbnails, so you can hover the mouse over them to see their full text.
• Enhancement: The "Action: Repeat next step" and "Action: Repeat this block" automation steps now support a value of "forever" to repeat them indefinitely until you manually stop their action.
• Enhancement: The "Always on top" option for the Power menu and "Window: Always on top" automated action step will now keep that window on top of the taskbar as well (even when you click the taskbar), but only while AlomWare Toolbox is running. Note that this won't stay on top of AlomWare Toolbox's "Work Overview" window or AlomWare Toolbox's Dock, as these are meant to always be visible when in use.

Zaloguj lub Zarejestruj się aby zobaczyć!

 

[Ircus]

AlomWare Toolbox 2.02.02​

Spoiler

Zaloguj lub Zarejestruj się aby zobaczyć!

Zaloguj lub Zarejestruj się aby zobaczyć!

 

[Camel1965]

AlomWare Toolbox 3.00.00

===== v3.00.00 (23 Apr 2024) =====

LICENSE CHANGE: The usage code for free sessions is back to daily again, instead of until the app quits. Purchasing an unlock code will free you of this.

App change: Removed the need for the external "Toolbox.sys" file by embedding it back into "Toolbox.exe". You can delete "Toolbox.sys" if you wish.

Stability fixes: Re-wrote a lot of internal code to be more memory-efficient and not clash with other app functions and threads.

Bug fix: For reminders/scheduled tasks that ran automated actions on arrival.

Bug fix: Hotkeys using the Windows key were slower to respond than those without.

Change: The "Alert: Show a splash message" step has longer timeouts for the number of lines: 1 line = 2 seconds, 2 or 3 lines = 4 seconds, 4 to 6 lines = 6 seconds, and 7 or more lines = 8 seconds.

Addition: New app system tray menu item called "Center all windows", which moves all non-maximized and non-minimized windows to the center of the desktop.

Addition: New automated action step called "Computer: Move all windows", which moves all open windows to the left, right, up, down, or centered on the desktop; in steps of 500 pixels (can be changed in Settings), to give yourself a bigger desktop working area. Maximized windows are resized to the desktop size first, and minimized windows are ignored. Specify the direction as "left", "right", "up", or "down"; or as "center" to center them all. If you accidentally lose track of them, you can right-click AlomWare Toolbox's system tray icon and select "Center all windows" to bring them all back.

Addition: New automated action step called "Computer: Desktop layout snapshot", which temporarily (not permanently) remembers your current desktop layout, specifically: its resolution, icon positions, and open window sizes and positions. You can then later restore this layout with the "Computer: Desktop layout restore" step. This snapshot step is useful before you run a game, put your PC to sleep, or switch a monitor off.

Addition: New automated action step called "String: Assign from assigned window", to get the text (if any) found on the assigned window; using Windows 10 (and later) OCR technology. This means you can now perform actions based on the text seen on a window's interface, such as setting a scheduled task in the "Calendar" tab to do something when a window with specific text opens and becomes active.

Addition: New default action called "Computer\Save and restore desktop layout", which demonstrates the new desktop layout steps mentioned above. Add this via the "Action Wizard" button in the "Automation" tab (use the "Re-add default actions" item).

Enhancement: Right-clicking a clipboard text item now has a menu option to open that item if it's an app, file, folder, or website.

Enhancement: Screenshots of files can now open those files when double-clicked (or right-clicked) in the Screenshots list. Previously only apps, folders, and websites could be re-opened.

Enhancement: Stopped the Dock's appearance from being too sensitive, so it won't accidentally show when you click a window button in the taskbar.

Maintenance: Internal bug fixes and code optimisations. Updates to the instruction manual.

Zaloguj lub Zarejestruj się aby zobaczyć!

 

[Ircus]

AlomWare Toolbox 3.00.1

Spoiler

Zaloguj lub Zarejestruj się aby zobaczyć!

Zaloguj lub Zarejestruj się aby zobaczyć!

 

[Camel1965]

AlomWare Toolbox 3.1.0.0​

===== v3.1.0.0 (4 May 2024) =====

It's Star Wars Day - May the fourth be with you!

Changes: To some automated step descriptions to make them easier to understand.

Major addition: Automated actions now have a dedicated run list under the Action list, similar in concept to the Windows "Task Manager", so you can see which actions are running and the date/time they were started. You can also select actions in that list and press the "Delete" key to stop them. We've removed the red "Stop" button accordingly as actions really shouldn't be stopped until they finish naturally.

Major addition: There's a new box underneath the Step list for actions, which shows help for the selected step; to save you pressing F1 to get step help. F1 still works, though. If you hold down Ctrl and click any line that starts with "See also", then the Step Chooser window will open at that step.

Addition: New automated action step called "String: Assign from notification", which assigns the string from the last OS app notification (aka "toast") shown. Does not apply for notifications from third-party apps. Uses OCR from the OS to assign the text (if any), meaning its accuracy depends on the OS itself. This step means you can now run an action based on what a notification says.

Enhancement: You can now type a dot and press Enter on the "Message or action" box in the "Calendar" tab, which will prompt you to select an action instead of having to manually type its name.

Enhancement: Holding down the Ctrl key when clicking "See also" in a step's description will now jump to that step in the Step Chooser window.

Enhancement: Docking a window to another will now keep it docked when the first window is maximized or minimized, instead of ending the dock.

Enhancement: The "File: Create from Base64 text" step will now prompt you if the file already exists and not just automatically overwrite it.

Enhancement: For safety when deleting actions, you must now hold down the Ctrl key when clicking "OK" at the confirmation prompt.

Maintenance: Internal bug fixes and code optimisations. Updates to the instruction manual.

Zaloguj lub Zarejestruj się aby zobaczyć!

 

[Camel1965]

AlomWare Toolbox 3.1.0.1​

===== v3.1.0.1 (5 May 2024) =====

Quick bug fixes for yesterday's release: For an issue when auto-running multiple actions when the app starts; and also when stopping all actions.

Maintenance: Other miscellaneous internal bug fixes and code optimisations. Updates to the instruction manual for the "Automation" topic.

Zaloguj lub Zarejestruj się aby zobaczyć!

 

[Ircus]

AlomWare Toolbox 4.0.0.0

Spoiler

Zaloguj lub Zarejestruj się aby zobaczyć!

Zaloguj lub Zarejestruj się aby zobaczyć!

 

[Camel1965]

AlomWare Toolbox 4.0.0.1​

===== v4.0.0.1 (19 Jun 2024) =====

Quick bug fix: For the taskbar moving function, which would crash the app.

Enhancement: The "Map" tab now recognises and adds folders based on apps that are running. Standalone folders still can't be supported at this time.

Maintenance: Other miscellaneous bug and stability fixes, code optimisations, and cosmetic text changes. Updates to the instruction manual.

Zaloguj lub Zarejestruj się aby zobaczyć!

 

[Camel1965]

AlomWare Toolbox 4.1.0.0

===== v4.1.0.0 (2 Jul 2024) =====

LICENSE CHANGE: The price has been changed to USD $12/year to see how this fares as a lower-price option. That's right: it's now just $1/month to get an unlock code for a year while supporting us and showing your appreciation. This is NOT a recurring subscription and you don't need to store a credit card with us. The app will revert to free mode after 12 months, upon which you can choose to pay for another 12 months if you're still happy. If you'd prefer to pay for a LIFETIME unlock code, please contact us.

Enhancement: The "Map" tab shows a message for folders on Windows 11 to explain how to make them trackable.

Enhancement: Updated the "Folder: Assign active" automation step to explain how to make Win 11 folders assignable.

Maintenance: Other miscellaneous bug and stability fixes, code optimisations, and cosmetic text changes. Updates to the instruction manual.

Zaloguj lub Zarejestruj się aby zobaczyć!