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Thanks for sharing how to make it work for you, Oblivion. It's not needed here for my PCs, but I'm glad you sorted it for yourself.

I did toy with the idea of making an action not run until its hotkey is released, but that would break some actions from running immediately and/or correctly, such as this magnifying glass one: https://www.alomware.com/forum/index.php?topic=191.0

Thanks for the positive feedback.

I added it after seeing this Reddit post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/software/comments/1x3ts9z/i_made_a_free_screen_magnifier_you_open_by/

So you can really thank the OP there for it being added to Toolbox

If you're a paid user, email me and I'll send you a download link so you don't have to wait.

You can already filter the action list by using the "Toolbox: Filter action list with" step in an action, but I do see merit in clicking the "Trigger" column and having a pop-up menu of types to choose. Would save creating an action to filter them, or typing the filter text manually. So, it's been done for the next release. Teaser:

Looking into it. Pretty sure I can do what rjbull is asking.

[{enter}]

Colors (and rich text) aren't possible with the message boxes as Windows doesn't support that.

For tabs, you can press the Tab key when composing your text and they'll be tabbed in the shown message box:





Having said that, I have also just made the next version allow both {enter} and {tab} to be specified as part of the text for messages. So you will be able to do this for your Data or Strings if you choose to type them as one line:

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Data: Add "one{tab}two{tab}three~{enter}~four{tab}{tab}five"

Thanks for the detailed tutorial, Oblivion!

[Enter]

When your desktop is a mess of files, folders and shortcuts it can be hard to find the newest desktop file that you just downloaded.

Luckily, one of AlomWare Toolbox's default actions lets you auto-select the newest desktop file, so if you've just download something that's now hidden in that desktop mess, you can run the action and the downloaded file gets conveniently selected for you. You can then press Enter to run it, or do something else like press Ctrl+X to cut it for pasting into another folder with Ctrl+V.

Below is the action and a screenshot of it in the app. It's probably a good idea to assign a hotkey trigger to the action for easy access.

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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 Action: Allow failure messages "0"
0002 File: Assign from newest in "desk$"
0003 Action: Continue if "filename$<>blank$"
0004 Computer: Show the desktop ""
0005 Macro: Type keys or use mouse "filename$"
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Version 9.0.0.5 of AlomWare Toolbox introduced a new magnifying glass feature with a step called "Toolbox: Show the magnifier". When used, it shows a magnifying glass on your desktop that you can drag around to zoom in on things. It's not intended to be a replacement for the app's "Desktop Info" tab, but more for just quickly zooming in on something to see it better for a moment. You can zoom in or out by scrolling the mouse wheel on the lens.

Here's an action that shows the magnifier while a hotkey is held down, and then hides it when the hotkey is released:

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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 Toolbox: Show the magnifier "1"
0002 Wait: For action hotkey to be released ""
0003 Toolbox: Show the magnifier "0"
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Hi Oblivion. I replied to your email. For others reading this topic, it was a bug introduced with v6.0.0.0 for the "String: Assign to variable" step, which has now been fixed for the next release. Thanks for drawing my attention to it!

The data$ variable is just a holder for any text (like string$). You can use either, but only string$ can be modified with the String steps. Don't use a variable name with "data$" in it (like "mydata$"), because Toolbox will match the "data$" value first when running a step, like so:

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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 Data: Assign "test"
0002 Alert: Show a message "mydata$"
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Which results in a message like this:

Thank you both for your kind words. I truly appreciate the... appreciation.

Good catch! I just added this for the next update, but it'll only work if AlomWare Toolbox is run as admin because the Task Manager is admin.

I made a typo in the URL that I emailed you. Put a dot instead of the slash before "com".

Indents are not done deeply when copying an action's text, by design. This is to save whitespace when pasting to places like here, because the aim is just for someone to copy the text for pasting into the app, where it'll appear indented nicely. I'll see about suppressing the "Search" part of the "Alert: Ask for a choice" step.

BTW, in the update of the app I emailed you, you can now replace step 1 like so:

Old:

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0001 Folder: Assign "C:\[Tim]\[Toolbox]\Toolbox Data\Actions\My Useful Stuff"
New:

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0001 Folder: Assign "tooldata$\Actions\My Useful Stuff"