*** ALOMWARE TOOLBOX CHANGE LOG: SHORT LIST *** Please carefully read any "Change" and "Removed" items, as your automated actions may need your manual editing if they've been affected by such changes/removals. This list contains only the last three updates. For the full list of updates, see: https://www.alomware.com/toolbox-changes-full.txt ===== v7.0.0.1 (7 Jan 2026) ===== Restored: The "Window: Assign active" step. You can still use "Window: Assign" with a value of "active" as well. Restored: The keyboard tweak to auto-close pairs of: " ( { [. Seems this was a popular feature, but we had no idea because we don't monitor you. Just be aware that this feature can't work with macro recording or non-English keyboards (both of which is why it was temporarily removed). Bug fix: For restoring folder layouts to a pre-selected folder view. Bug fix: For some icons not being displayed correctly in the Dock and app's system tray menu. Major addition: You can now select a window by searching for its title text in the Command box by using "@" as the prefix. This minimizes all windows except the matching one. For example, to select only the Calculator, you'd press AlomWare Toolbox's hotkey and type "@calc" to find and select it. Addition: New action variable called "anywin$", which is 1 if any window is open on the desktop (including if minimized) or 0 if not. Enhancement: The "Opening Window States" menu item has been renamed to "Saved Window Manager". Its window now has a wider "Source" column to see more text, and it also has a new "Unique ID" column to show the unique ID for each window, because some windows might appear to be duplicates when they're actually not (such as an app title and a folder title being the same). Enhancement: The "Custom Process Killer" buttons now show tooltips when enabled and hovered over with the mouse; to show full process names that are too long to show on a button. Maintenance: Other miscellaneous internal bug and stability fixes, code optimisations, and cosmetic text changes. ===== v7.0.0.0 (1 Jan 2026) ===== HAPPY NEW YEAR! Removed: The keyboard tweak to auto-close pairs of: " ( { [ Removed: The "Window: Assign active" step. Use the updated "Window: Assign" step instead (see below). Bug fix: For a crash on app startup when it's been set to dim its windows. Bug fix: For hotkeys not working for an action when it has been renamed. Bug fix: For some column widths not being restored correctly to their saved widths. Bug fix: For buttons sometimes disappearing from their list headers (such as the "Stop" button on the "Running actions" list). Bug fix: For the option of auto-removing "mailto:" from copied email addresses in the clipboard (got broken in a recent release). Bug fix: For when asking for a single line of text, the text might sometimes accidentally include the final "Enter" keystroke by mistake. Bug fix: For PC state restorations, where changing the window title of an item will cause it not to be found. Now editing the window title is not permitted, as it never actually should have been. Preventative fix: For a race condition issue with other apps that monitor the clipboard, where they didn't follow Microsoft's guidelines and thus cause AlomWare Toolbox to miss some clipboard text. Major change: Free temporary unlock codes are now available at AlomWare.com for free/trial users, removing the need to enter a usage code every day (or at every launch in a day). We'd still prefer you to pay for a license. ;) Addition: New PC tweak for Windows 11 which lets you always see system tray icons for supported apps, with supported meaning apps that show such an icon. Normally you'd need to manually enable these to be seen with Win 11 in the Taskbar settings, but now you can see them all automatically. Enable this tweak in AlomWare Toolbox's Settings here: "Tweaks for your PC > Windows > Win 11+ specific > Always show system tray icons for supported apps". Addition: New PC tweak which lets you optionally auto-remove blank lines before and after copied text. Major enhancement: You can now choose which tabs to show in the window (such as "Calendar", "Notes", etc) and also in which order from left to right. Requires an app restart when changed. Set your tab preferences in Settings here: "Toolbox's window > Display and behavior > Set the tab order (and/or tabs not to show)." Major enhancement: Saving a window's opening state now supports partial window titles by prefixing them with question mark. For example, you could specify "? - Notepad" so that any Notepad window will be matched and opened where you wanted. Major enhancement: Macro recording for keystrokes and mouse clicks can now be done and locked to a single window, no matter where the window is located on the desktop. When the macro is later played back, the window will auto-resize itself to match its original recorded size. Enhancement: The "Window: Assign" steps now supports "active" as a value, to assign the active window. This replaces the removed "Window: Assign active" step. Enhancement: The "Alert: Ask for a file as" automation step now has an "All files" option for when you specify a single file type. So if you specify "JPG" as the sole type, and you can't see the file you want (because maybe it's got an extension of "JPEG" or "JFIF" instead), then you can select "All files" as the filter to see and select it. Enhancement: Restoring a PC state is now much faster as there was doubled-up code that tried to restore a given window twice, instead of just once. This led to 2 x five-second timeouts for all windows instead of just one timeout for each. Enhancement: Copying an action with long steps will now split the long steps over several lines, making it easier and cleaner to share the action text (such as by email). Enhancement: The "Folder: Sort files into sub-folders by" automation step now lets you sort the assigned folder's files into a sub-folder named "Toolbox Sorted Files" by alphabetical title, date, extension, or type. Enhancement: Actions for the Dock and the app's system tray menu now use the action's first step for its icon, making it easier to see what the Dock or tray icon does. You can use the "Action: Use icon" step to override this. Enhancement: Due to popular request, you can now add reminders in the past, for times when you want to see how long ago something occurred. These get added in the "Arrived" tab at the relevant time position. Enhancement: Clicking an "Arrived" or "Missed" item in the "Calendar" tab now shows how long ago the event occurred in the status bar (in "years, months, weeks, days" format). Enhancement: For visual feedback, adding reminders now auto-selects them in the "Current" list (or "Arrived" list when adding old reminders), so you can see them easily in their relevant time position. Enhancement: Adding default actions (via the Action Wizard) will no longer overwrite any existing actions that might have a default action's name. Enhancement: Right-clicking the LED icon in the system tray will now show AlomWare Toolbox's pop-up menu (just like right-clicking its app icon). New automation step: "Toolbox: Enable keyboard monitoring", so you can switch this on or off as needed, which is handy for non-English keyboards. New automation step: "Toolbox: Filter action list with", so you can filter the action list with a hotkey or other trigger. New automation step: "Toolbox: Filter clipboard list with", so you can filter the clipboard list with a hotkey or other trigger. New automation step: "Toolbox: Filter note list with", so you can filter the note list with a hotkey or other trigger. New automation step: "Toolbox: Filter screenshot lists with", so you can filter the screenshot lists with a hotkey or other trigger. New window variable: "winmax$", which is 1 if the assigned window is maximized (and 0 if not). New window variable: "winmin$", which is 1 if the assigned window is minimized (and 0 if not). Maintenance: Other miscellaneous internal bug and stability fixes, code optimisations, and cosmetic text changes. ===== v6.1.1.1 (31 Oct 2025) ===== Bug fix: For saving window opening states and PC states, and for the "windoc$" variable. Bug fix: For folder windows set to auto-maximize when opened. Bug fix: For screenshots of system notifications. Bug fix: For the icons shown in the "Screenshots" list. Bug fix: For auto-positioning windows to other than where the OS decides. Bug fix: For not adding clipboard text to the history list for banned apps. Bug fix: When using "Re-apply this window's opening state now" from the Power menu. New automation step: "Computer: Use audio device", to set the PC to use the specified audio device by its name. Now you can switch from headphones to speakers (and vice-versa) from a hotkey, or automatically from an action such as when a specific window becomes active. Addition: Included Vivaldi as an additional supported web browser for automated actions. Addition: There is now an "Edit step" button above the step list. You can still double-click a step to edit it. Addition: Option for the Step list to have line numbers shown at the right of them. Enable this in Settings (under "Automated actions"), or just click a step to see its line number in the status bar. Enhancement: The icon for "Notifications" in the Screenshot list is now a speech bubble for better visibility. Enhancement: If an action is copied to the clipboard and you press Ctrl+V on the Step Chooser window, the Step Chooser will now either close and create a new action if no action was currently selected, or the action steps in the clipboard are pasted into the currently-selected action. Maintenance: Other miscellaneous internal bug and stability fixes, code optimisations, and cosmetic text changes.