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#71
Help and Support / IDs and using multiple user va...
Last post by oblivion - May 07, 2026, 09:57:13 PMMy current automation project is about rewrapping and requoting text-format emails. The detail doesn't much matter, but my query is if I can use an ID to capture the parameter I want to feed to the
So I tried to write my action so I could choose a right margin for the text when I invoked it. I collected a response, stored it in an ID I called margin, then after I'd finished getting the text ready to be rewrapped, fed the word wrap function the current string$ with the right margin set to my stored margin variable.
And it didn't work. It dropped an error saying that my margin needed to be greater than zero and stopped.
I tried again, thinking maybe that "margin" might have needed to be "margin$".
Still nothing.
So I looked for an alternative way to hold a number for later use, remembered about
so used counter$ to hold the collected right margin and All Is Now Well.
The current, working, form of the action is at the end.
So I've clearly misunderstood the use of the IDs for variable storage. Can you set me right, please?
And how should I have tackled this issue?
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String: Word wrap at function.So I tried to write my action so I could choose a right margin for the text when I invoked it. I collected a response, stored it in an ID I called margin, then after I'd finished getting the text ready to be rewrapped, fed the word wrap function the current string$ with the right margin set to my stored margin variable.
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String: Word wrap at "margin"And it didn't work. It dropped an error saying that my margin needed to be greater than zero and stopped.
I tried again, thinking maybe that "margin" might have needed to be "margin$".
Still nothing.
So I looked for an alternative way to hold a number for later use, remembered about
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Counter: Assign "string$"[which is far from being its intended use but necessity is the mother of invention and all that]so used counter$ to hold the collected right margin and All Is Now Well.
The current, working, form of the action is at the end.
So I've clearly misunderstood the use of the IDs for variable storage. Can you set me right, please?
And how should I have tackled this issue?
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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: Comment "Remove quote chevrons, rewrap then replace chevrons"
0002 Action: Abort if no clipboard text ""
0003 Alert: Ask for a choice "#Wrap to what width?~20~30~40~50~60~70"
0004 String: Assign "alert$"
0005 Action: Do next step if "string$=blank$"
0006 String: Assign "68"
0007 Counter: Assign "string$"
0008 String: Assign from clipboard text ""
0009 String: Replace text "~>>=~"
0010 String: Replace text "~>=~"
0011 String: Replace text "~~=[para]"
0012 String: Replace text "~=space$"
0013 String: Replace text "[para]=~~"
0014 String: Word wrap at "counter$"
0015 String: Replace text "~=~>space$"
0016 Clipboard: Assign text "string$"
0017 Action: Do this block if "clip$<>"""
0018 Wait: For milliseconds to pass "200"
0019 Keyboard: Paste ""
0020 Action: End of block ""
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#72
Tips and Tricks / [Tip] Choose which tabs to sho...
Last post by Paul (Lead Developer) - May 04, 2026, 10:50:09 PMBy default, AlomWare Toolbox shows all tabs for all its functions:
This may be overwhelming to new users, but you can change which ones to show, and/or their order. To do this, click the "Settings" button, and then choose "Toolbox's Window > Display and behavior > Set the tab order (and/or tabs not to show)":
You'll get a prompt where you can set which tabs to show, and in which order. Here, we're choosing to only show Clipboard, Screenshots, and Automation tabs:
After clicking the "OK" button to set the changes, AlomWare Toolbox will restart with your new tab preferences:
As you can see, this is a lot less clutter if you don't need to use any particular tabs.
This may be overwhelming to new users, but you can change which ones to show, and/or their order. To do this, click the "Settings" button, and then choose "Toolbox's Window > Display and behavior > Set the tab order (and/or tabs not to show)":
You'll get a prompt where you can set which tabs to show, and in which order. Here, we're choosing to only show Clipboard, Screenshots, and Automation tabs:
After clicking the "OK" button to set the changes, AlomWare Toolbox will restart with your new tab preferences:
As you can see, this is a lot less clutter if you don't need to use any particular tabs.
#73
Feature Requests / Re: Quoting and requoting emai...
Last post by Paul (Lead Developer) - May 04, 2026, 08:52:28 PM@GCRedditor136: I agree that it should be changed. I'll look into the best way to do it that doesn't break existing actions.
@oblivion: I hope it works for your needs.
@oblivion: I hope it works for your needs.
#74
Feature Requests / Re: Quoting and requoting emai...
Last post by oblivion - May 04, 2026, 08:14:43 PMQuote from: Paul (Lead Developer) on May 04, 2026, 02:47:46 PMAm I right?
That looks like it'll do it.
Thanks, Paul, I'll build that logic into my email requoter and see if I can break it. 
#75
Feature Requests / Re: Quoting and requoting emai...
Last post by GCRedditor136 - May 04, 2026, 04:59:20 PMQuote from: oblivion on May 01, 2026, 09:20:45 PMI only found out tilde was a newline by accident in the help for a different commandCan this be changed, actually? The tilde character isn't exactly unique and can be used in normal text a lot. I think it should be changed to something less common. It doesn't really look like a newline character either.
#76
Feature Requests / Re: Quoting and requoting emai...
Last post by Paul (Lead Developer) - May 04, 2026, 02:47:46 PMOkay, I think you want this action:
Which turns this:
My starting text
is rather like this
with short lines
that nevertheless form
a paragraph.
Then there's another
paragraph of text
separated from the
previous paragraph
by a blank line.
What I want to do
is issue a rewrap
that preserves the
sense of the text
as paragraphs
separated by line
breaks.
Into this:
My starting text is rather like this with short lines that nevertheless
form a paragraph.
Then there's another paragraph of text separated from the previous
paragraph by a blank line.
What I want to do is issue a rewrap that preserves the sense of the
text as paragraphs separated by line breaks.
Am I right?
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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 "My starting text~is rather like this~with short lines~that nevertheless form~a¬
paragraph.~~Then there's another~paragraph of text~separated from the~previous paragraph~by a blan¬
k line.~~What I want to do~is issue a rewrap~that preserves the~sense of the text~as paragraphs~sep¬
arated by line~breaks."
0002 String: Replace text "~~=[para]"
0003 String: Replace text "~= "
0004 String: Replace text "[para]=~~"
0005 String: Word wrap at "72"
0006 Alert: Show a message "string$"
(End)
Which turns this:
My starting text
is rather like this
with short lines
that nevertheless form
a paragraph.
Then there's another
paragraph of text
separated from the
previous paragraph
by a blank line.
What I want to do
is issue a rewrap
that preserves the
sense of the text
as paragraphs
separated by line
breaks.
Into this:
My starting text is rather like this with short lines that nevertheless
form a paragraph.
Then there's another paragraph of text separated from the previous
paragraph by a blank line.
What I want to do is issue a rewrap that preserves the sense of the
text as paragraphs separated by line breaks.
Am I right?
#77
Feature Requests / Re: Quoting and requoting emai...
Last post by oblivion - May 03, 2026, 09:36:20 PMQuote from: Paul (Lead Developer) on May 03, 2026, 01:14:43 PMWhy is there a line break after "one out" in the green wanted text, when there's none in the red original text? Where did that break come from?Not sure. Probably a typo.
When I asked for a rewrap function that respected paragraph breaks, this is what I meant:
Remove single linefeeds but leave in the second (and any subsequent) linefeeds of a group of consecutive linefeeds, then rewrap each line of the resultant text to the desired length without breaking words.
The other bits -- stripping out chevrons and adding them again -- not a problem, that's not part of the algorithm. That happens before and after the rewrap.
Let's ignore the chevrons. They're not part of this, and I can deal with them through existing functionality.
So. Let's say:
My starting text
is rather like this
with short lines
that nevertheless form
a paragraph.
Then there's another
paragraph of text
separated from the
previous paragraph
by a blank line.
What I want to do
is issue a rewrap
that preserves the
sense of the text
as paragraphs
separated by line
breaks.
Result:
My starting text is rather like this with short lines that nevertheless form
a paragraph.
Then there's another paragraph of text separated from the previous
paragraph by a blank line.
What I want to do is issue a rewrap that preserves the sense of the text
as paragraphs separated by line breaks.
Alternatively, I'd also want to be able to rewrap
My starting text is rather like this with short lines that nevertheless form a paragraph.
Then there's another paragraph of text separated from the previous paragraph by a
blank line.
What I want to do is issue a rewrap that preserves the sense of the text as paragraphs
separated by line breaks.
To
My starting text is rather like this with short lines that nevertheless form
a paragraph.
Then there's another paragraph of text separated from the previous
paragraph by a blank line.
What I want to do is issue a rewrap that preserves the sense of the text
as paragraphs separated by line breaks.
The requoting element (which existing functionality can deliver) can then look for ~ and replace with ~>space$ and I'll get
> My starting text is rather like this with short lines that nevertheless form
> a paragraph.
>
> Then there's another paragraph of text separated from the previous
> paragraph by a blank line.
>
> What I want to do is issue a rewrap that preserves the sense of the text
> as paragraphs separated by line breaks.
Does that help? In my head, I'm repeating myself but I've definitely made some assumptions that I realise I shouldn't have made.
#78
Feature Requests / Re: Quoting and requoting emai...
Last post by Paul (Lead Developer) - May 03, 2026, 01:14:43 PMI don't follow (sorry). Can you put your before/after examples in colors, so I can better visualize what you mean?
I'm also confused by this bit of your post (which I've colored):
Original:
> I could use that function IF I could tell it only to remove one out of every two consecutive line breaks.
Wanted:
> I could use that function IF I could tell it only to remove one out
> of every two consecutive line breaks. If I remove all of them,
Why is there a line break after "one out" in the green wanted text, when there's none in the red original text? Where did that break come from?
I'm also confused by this bit of your post (which I've colored):
Original:
> I could use that function IF I could tell it only to remove one out of every two consecutive line breaks.
Wanted:
> I could use that function IF I could tell it only to remove one out
> of every two consecutive line breaks. If I remove all of them,
Why is there a line break after "one out" in the green wanted text, when there's none in the red original text? Where did that break come from?
#79
Feature Requests / Re: Quoting and requoting emai...
Last post by oblivion - May 03, 2026, 05:37:42 AMHi Paul,
No. I want
>I could use that function IF I could tell it only to remove one out of every two consecutive line breaks. If I remove all of them,
>actual paragraphs delineated by a blank line between them, also get joined together.
>This is the next paragraph
to become
> I could use that function IF I could tell it only to remove one out
> of every two consecutive line breaks. If I remove all of them,
> actual paragraphs delineated by a blank line between them, also get
> joined together.
> This is the next paragraph.
So: remove the > symbols, rewrap, put a "> " at the start of the resultant lines.
No. I want
>I could use that function IF I could tell it only to remove one out of every two consecutive line breaks. If I remove all of them,
>actual paragraphs delineated by a blank line between them, also get joined together.
>This is the next paragraph
to become
> I could use that function IF I could tell it only to remove one out
> of every two consecutive line breaks. If I remove all of them,
> actual paragraphs delineated by a blank line between them, also get
> joined together.
> This is the next paragraph.
So: remove the > symbols, rewrap, put a "> " at the start of the resultant lines.
#80
Feature Requests / Re: Quoting and requoting emai...
Last post by Paul (Lead Developer) - May 02, 2026, 10:45:09 AMDo you mean you want the red text to become the green text?
> I could use that function IF I could tell it only to remove one out
> of every two consecutive line breaks. If I remove all of them,
> actual paragraphs delineated by a blank line between them, also get
> joined together.
> So what I want to achieve is
> I could use that function IF I could tell it only to remove one out
> of every two consecutive line breaks. If I remove all of them,
> actual paragraphs delineated by a blank line between them, also get
> joined together. So what I want to achieve is
If so, you want this action:
Which results in the green text from the red text.
> I could use that function IF I could tell it only to remove one out
> of every two consecutive line breaks. If I remove all of them,
> actual paragraphs delineated by a blank line between them, also get
> joined together.
> So what I want to achieve is
> I could use that function IF I could tell it only to remove one out
> of every two consecutive line breaks. If I remove all of them,
> actual paragraphs delineated by a blank line between them, also get
> joined together. So what I want to achieve is
If so, you want this action:
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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 "> I could use that function IF I could tell it only to remove one out~> of eve¬
ry two consecutive line breaks. If I remove all of them,~> actual paragraphs delineated by a blank ¬
line between them, also get~> joined together. ~~> So what I want to achieve is"
0002 String: Replace text "~~> ="
0003 Alert: Show a message "string$"
(End)Which results in the green text from the red text.