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Question: NUM LOCK issue

"I just cannot get [my PC] to leave the NUM LOCK function as set to ON permanently."

This user has tried everything to get his PC to keep the Num Lock key on, but nothing worked. AlomWare Toolbox has a setting to force it on at all times. Once enabled, you can press Num Lock to turn it off, but it'll stay on regardless. Just open Toolbox's "Settings" and navigate to "Tweaks for your PC > Keyboard > Freeze the Num Lock key so that it always stays on".

Images for posting here need to be linked from Imgur.com or some other image host. I didn't enable attachments so as to keep the forum database small.

Sorry, I forgot to enable that. The next release (v9.0.0.1 tomorrow) will allow text of up to 2048 characters (2 KB) to be converted into a QR code.

Can you send me a screenshot of the recurring reminder/task with it selected in the Calendar tab, so I can see how it's composed? Thanks.

I'm looking into it.

I've heard of the 'PayPal refund' trick before, but only once, and hadn't realised it was so prevalent. Nasty.

Yeah, it's bad. PayPal always sides with the buyer too, so I have to refund the buyer AND pay a PayPal dishonor fee. So the user basically gets the unlock code for free to use the app for life. Well, until now due to the activation check.

@Oblivion: I've emailed you with a fixed version of the auto-closing of ( { [ and "

Please reply here with how it went.

Oops, you're right! I only made them ticked when opening the "Saved Window Manager" if they were created with v9.0.0.0. I've enabled them by default for the next update (if not unticked). Thanks for the heads-up!

Confirmed that auto-closing fails. Something must've broken when I added non-English keyboard support. Will look into it.

I can't get the mouse positioning to fail, with or without multiple desktops, and with or without any windows being open. Please post an action (or email it to me) so I can copy it exactly and see how it goes at my end.

The checkboxes for saved windows in the "Saved Window Manager" have to be enabled for the window to be moved:

AlomWare Toolbox lets you find any image on the desktop, such for clicking as part of an automated action. It uses the step called "Image: Find on desktop" to do the search. You first need to snip the image that you want to find and save it to a folder, then assign that snippet to find it on the desktop later.

If the image is found, its location is stored in these variables (which will all be blank if not found):

• imagex$ = The image's left position on the desktop.
• imagey$ = The image's top position on the desktop.
• imagew$ = The image's width (in pixels).
• imageh$ = The image's height (in pixels).

Here's an action that searches the desktop for the image specified in step 1, and then puts the mouse over the center of it (the calculation in step 3):

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HOW TO USE: Copy from Start to End, and then paste into an action.
REFERENCE : See an example of pasting at alomware.com/paste.png
0001 Image: Assign "c:\image\to\find.png"
0002 Image: Find on desktop ""
0003 Mouse: Move to desktop position "{=imagex$+(imagew$/2)},{=imagey$+(imageh$/2)}"
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As a test without using an image file, you can snip part of the desktop with the Windows "Snipping Tool" and copy the snip to the clipboard. Then run the action below to find what you snipped on the desktop:

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HOW TO USE: Copy from Start to End, and then paste into an action.
REFERENCE : See an example of pasting at alomware.com/paste.png
0001 Image: Assign "clip"
0002 Image: Find on desktop ""
0003 Mouse: Move to desktop position "{=imagex$+(imagew$/2)},{=imagey$+(imageh$/2)}"
(End)


With AlomWare Toolbox, you can easily create a QR code from any website URL. You just use the "Image: Assign" step in the format "qr=URL". Here's an action that does it from a screenshot of AlomWare Toolbox's "Automation" tab:

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HOW TO USE: Copy from Start to End, and then paste into an action.
REFERENCE : See an example of pasting at alomware.com/paste.png
0001 Image: Assign "qr=https://www.alomware.com/images/tab-automation.png"
0002 Image: Show at desktop position "numpad5"
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Running this action results in the QR code being displayed in the center of the desktop. Try scanning it with your phone!



Here's an action that you can set to a hotkey that grabs the URL from the active web browser and creates a QR code for it:

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HOW TO USE: Copy from Start to End, and then paste into an action.
REFERENCE : See an example of pasting at alomware.com/paste.png
0001 String: Assign URL from active browser ""
0002 String: Insert text "1,qr="
0003 Image: Assign "string$"
0004 Image: Show at desktop position "numpad5"
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Tip: You're not restricted to just website URLs; you can actually create a QR code for any text (but not "War and Peace"!). Just remember to prefix the text with "qr=" and you're all set.

By default, the Windows "Run" dialog box is not wide enough to show long text. With AlomWare Toolbox, you can now have it always open wider:



The setting is located here: "Tweaks for your PC > Windows > Make the Windows 'Run' box wider to show more text".



Once you go wide, you'll never go back! 

Would it be useful if Toolbox did something similar -- just added a word count to the status bar for the current clipboard entry?

Already there, my good man. Just look at the status bar when a clipboard item is selected in the list.

Or, you can use this action with a hotkey, which shows a word count of the clipboard text as a message:

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HOW TO USE: Copy from Start to End, and then paste into an action.
REFERENCE : See an example of pasting at alomware.com/paste.png
0001 String: Assign from clipboard text ""
0002 Alert: Show a message "Clipboard text word count: stringwc$"
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@GrahamB: Email sent.  Make sure to test it with your PC in airplane mode at launch, and in normal mode.