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#1

Help and Support / Re: How do we backup our actio...

Last post by Paul (Lead Developer) - June 06, 2026, 10:20:04 PM

I can add that, yes (an action step to create a note).

#2

Help and Support / Re: How do we backup our actio...

Last post by oblivion - June 06, 2026, 08:21:08 PM

Fair enough.

However, I do wonder if a command to create / edit a note from an action might be a useful thing?

Just to make that perhaps a bit better expressed: one of my gadgets is a notes program called Cintanote. Something it can do, which often comes in useful, is I can highlight some text somewhere, hit a hotkey, and Cintanotes will create a new note with the selected text as the content. So it's that sort of functionality I'm thinking of here.

#3

Help and Support / Re: How do we backup our actio...

Last post by oblivion - June 05, 2026, 03:36:06 AM

Fair enough.

However, I do wonder if a command to create / edit a note from an action might be a useful thing?

#4

Help and Support / Re: How do we backup our actio...

Last post by Paul (Lead Developer) - June 03, 2026, 05:47:55 PM

I totally forgot about action backups. I promise to do it soon. I don't want to do the add-to-note thing because that's more of a custom request and I prefer to avoid those. To find backed-up actions, I'll see what I can do.

#5

Help and Support / Re: How do we backup our actio...

Last post by oblivion - June 03, 2026, 01:02:18 AM

Can I make a suggestion?

How about a (hopefully simple) right-click function that could take the currently selected action and copy it to a Note, with the action name as the first line of the note and a the hotkey as the second? Oh, maybe some element that could be used as a search criterion so you could find all your backed-up actions easily?

#6

Tips and Tricks / Re: Case modification anywhere

Last post by oblivion - May 31, 2026, 10:13:02 PM

The updated version of the code -- and I've added in the MiXeD cAsE block because removing unwanted blocks is easier than adding them -- is here:

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(Start)
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 Window: Assign active ""
0002 Wait: For action hotkey to be released ""
0003 Clipboard: Clear all content ""
0004 Keyboard: Copy ""
0005 Action: Abort if no clipboard text ""
0006 String: Assign from clipboard text ""
0007 Alert: Ask for a choice "Case modification type?~iNVERT~lower case~Sentence case~Title Case~AL¬
L CAPS~MiXeD cAsE"
0008 Action: Do next step if "alert$=iNVERT"
0009  String: Case swap ""
0010 Action: Do next step if "alert$=Title Case"
0011  String: Case title ""
0012 Action: Do next step if "alert$=Sentence case"
0013  String: Case sentence ""
0014 Action: Do next step if "alert$=lower case"
0015  String: Case lower ""
0016 Action: Do next step if "alert$=ALL CAPS"
0017  String: Case upper ""
0018 Action: Do next step if "alert$=MiXeD cAsE"
0019  String: Case mixed ""
0020 Clipboard: Assign text "string$"
0021 Keyboard: Paste ""
(End)


#7

Tips and Tricks / Re: Case modification anywhere

Last post by oblivion - May 31, 2026, 10:08:29 PM

Ah. Now that gave me an idea.

Adding

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Wait: For action hotkey to be released ""
at step 2 fixed it.

#8

Help and Support / Re: Can Alomware Toolbox do th...

Last post by Paul (Lead Developer) - May 31, 2026, 08:12:52 PM

Hi GrahamB. This can be done with an action like below. In the action, I'm using Winamp as the music player, so edit steps 2 and 3 to be what your music player's folder and exe name is.

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(Start)
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 Window: Assign active ""
0002 Computer: App launch "D:\[Apps]\Winamp\Winamp.exe"
0003 Wait: For a window to appear "Winamp.exe"
0004 Wait: For milliseconds to pass "25"
0005 Action: Allow failure messages "0"
0006 Window: Activate for use ""
(End)

Explanation of the steps:

Step 1 tells the action to remember the current active window (if any).
Step 2 launches the music player (Winamp).
Step 3 waits for Winamp's window to appear.
Step 4 waits for 25 milliseconds after Winamp's window opens to ensure it's ready.
Step 5 tells AlomWare Toolbox to silently end the action here if a window wasn't active in step 1.
Step 6 switches the focus back to the original active window (if a window was active in step 1).

#9

Help and Support / Can Alomware Toolbox do this?

Last post by GrahamB - May 31, 2026, 05:19:11 PM

I'm new to Alomware Toolbox but already paid for it because I've been blown away by it so far. It's one of the best software tools I've ever used.  So far I've mainly used it for text autocompletion of things like my email and some website logins, but as a newbie I'd like to know if it's possible for me to open my music player but not lose the focus of the window that I'm currently using? Because it's annoying to click the taskbar to return to where I was after my music player opens. I'm guessing this is not a hard thing to do, but I'm not sure yet how to do it. Thanks in advance.

#10

Help and Support / Re: Kill and restart a hung ap...

Last post by GrahamB - May 31, 2026, 03:42:37 PM

Sorry for my late response, but this works great and is just what I needed.