Support: Typing issues with non-English keyboards

AlomWare Toolbox doesn't currently support non-English keyboards for a variety of reasons, but this may change in future if we can deal with a couple of technical issues. We are looking at how to (a) deal with the issue of it remaining a single portable exe file versus needing a second external DLL file to support other languages, and (b) how macro recording can work with other keyboard languages with its keyboard hook. These issues are not easy to reconcile with our limited testing so far, but rest assured we are actively looking for an easy solution for a future update.

An example of the lack of non-English support is for Portuguese keyboards: typing ^ followed by a will not result in the accented character of ä being typed. This is regrettable, but we remind you that AlomWare Toolbox's End-User License Agreement (EULA) has always stated that the app only officially supports the English language (and by extension, English keyboards); and to use and/or pay for the app you had to agree to the EULA.

Having said all this, you can change a setting in AlomWare Toolbox to disable its keyboard monitoring and allow accented characters to be typed again, as shown in Figure 2 below. However, this also disables auto-completion of text in the Action list (it disables the "Type text" trigger option), and also disables macro recording of the keyboard. You may have to temporarily enable that setting again when recording a macro.

Figure 1

Figure 2