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#61

Feature Requests / Re: Recursion?

Last post by Paul (Lead Developer) - June 16, 2026, 09:03:41 PM

I don't think I can detect the currently open/active tab

Just added a "curtab$" variable for the next update, so you can know.

#62

Feature Requests / Recursion?

Last post by oblivion - June 16, 2026, 02:19:00 AM

So I was working on something today. Playing with Notes, in fact. Creating myself a set of notes.

And it's all being copy/pasted from somewhere else, with a bit of editing for tidiness and consistency, nothing terribly clever.

And, at some point, without really thinking, I invoked my Clipboard History action, documented elsewhere, to fetch something out of the clipboard that wasn't the current content... and of course the process of selecting the element I wanted, from the programmatically invoked Clipboard tab, also closed the Notes tab.

Normally, of course, this doesn't happen -- the Window: Assign Active command ensures that although the Toolbox's Clipboard tab has been invoked, the pasted text goes where it's been invoked from.

But when it was invoked from somewhere else inside Toolbox...

So I think I'd like to be able to check if I'm moving information around Toolbox instead of outside it, and where I was so I can get back there again. I don't think there's a function that'll let me do that -- or is there?

So I think I want to be able to go, in pseudocode:

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if activewindow is toolbox
 get current tab
 invoke clipboard search / navigation code and get selection
 return to previously selected tab
 paste
else
 invoke clipboard search / navigation code and get selection
 return to active window
 paste


I think most of what's needed may already exist, but I don't think I can detect the currently open/active tab -- can I?

#63

General Discussion / Re: Notes

Last post by oblivion - June 15, 2026, 11:20:29 PM

Cool, thanks!    I'll definitely be able to make use of that

[string$]

#64

General Discussion / Re: Notes

Last post by Paul (Lead Developer) - June 15, 2026, 10:33:22 PM

It's just a plain-text area to save/edit quick searchable notes. Not really much to it, hence no mention on the home page. But maybe I should.  In the next update you'll be able to add notes from whatever text the string$ variable holds, which can be handy.

#65

Tips and Tricks / Re: Non-destructive temp clipb...

Last post by Paul (Lead Developer) - June 15, 2026, 10:26:50 PM

A very cool tip, Graham!

#66

General Discussion / Re: Thinking of buying

Last post by GrahamB - June 15, 2026, 10:17:58 AM

If you think the app is expensive, it's because you haven't grasped all that it can do.

Now that I've had the app for a while, I can see what you said is a true understatement! I had no idea of its power when I first laid eyes on it, but since then I've been slowly going through the automation functions I am totally stunned by what's on offer. Quite amazing. I've got quite a few automations set up with it now, and I just posted one as a tip here that may be of interest to others: https://www.alomware.com/forum/index.php?topic=155.0

#67

Tips and Tricks / Non-destructive temp clipboard...

Last post by GrahamB - June 15, 2026, 10:16:42 AM

I know the topic title is a mouthful, lol. But here's what I mean: it's an alternative clipboard cut function that remembers the current clipboard text, but lets me cut some selected new text for a temporary paste somewhere else. Once pasted with Ctrl+V, then original text goes back into the clipboard again. So it's good for when you don't want to lose the clipboard text but do need to make a temporary cut and paste with other text. I've got it bound to Shift+Ctrl+X and it works flawlessly. You can easily adapt this to work with copying as well (just duplicate the action, change step 2 to be the copy step, and bind a hotkey to something like Shift+Ctrl+C).

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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 Wait: For action hotkey to be released ""
0002 String: Assign from clipboard text ""
0003 Keyboard: Cut ""
0004 Wait: For keypresses or mouse clicks "{ctrl}v"
0005 Clipboard: Assign text "string$"
(End)


#68

General Discussion / Notes

Last post by oblivion - June 15, 2026, 04:27:42 AM

It occurred to me to wonder if I was missing anything useful with the Notes tab.

It doesn't even get a mention on the front page of the website.

I know there are notes-keeping programs out there, featuring probably far more functionality than Toolbox is likely to want to provide, but it surely has its place in the pantheon of Useful Things Toolbox can do...?

So... let's say I wanted to use Notes to keep -- say -- a reference of software licenses in. Nothing clever, plaintext copied out of emails, some easy search facilities. Would that be a good use of it? Might it be worth a few lines on the main webpage?

#69

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.

#70

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?