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Change case of selected text option
Popleft > 2023-08-11 08:24
I often need to change cases of some large texts, like from lowercase to capitals, or uppercase to title-like i.e. with first letters being a capital one
Currently in order to do it I must: select it, copy it, open CorelDRAW or some advanced text editor, paste it into a program, select the text again, use on it a proper case feature, copy it, paste it over the originally selected text; and when such text is a name of file or folder then I must add to this equation also steps for accessing of the rename option
So it would time and click saving if a user could just select text or an item and execute on it from QAP a transformation to desired version of letter case -
RE: Change case of selected text option
emp00 > 2023-08-11 13:42
@Popleft: I recommend using Autohotkey (directly) - here's one of many solutions for your problem, check out the link. By using AHK you can customize this exactly to your needs.
https://jacks-autohotkey-blog.com/2019/0...er-2-2019/ -
RE: Change case of selected text option
Popleft > 2023-08-18 12:03
(2023-08-11 13:42)emp00 Wrote: I recommend using Autohotkey (directly)
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It is my miserable failing at building a menu with entries [bearing simple texts ready for pasting them in wherever deemed necessary] has led me to finding QAP [and then to usage of its handy Snippets]
(2023-08-11 13:42)emp00 Wrote: https://jacks-autohotkey-blog.com/2019/0...er-2-2019/
This works, thank you. But the >>+<< sign gets wiped out from a selected text. And such [anticipated] issues like this are precisely why I made this proposition of mine for a new feature in QAP
And aside from me being too weak of a coder: I do not want to be forced to use umpteen keyboard shortcut
And most of all: I wish to be able to do quick conversions using just my mouse, when I am afar from monitor. [And yes, I already have a wireless keyboard - but it is plain tiresome to constantly have to pick it up and thus release the mouse and then go back. And by using a simple AHK script or a program like X-Mouse Button Control I will be able to access such new QAP feature by just evoking its keyboard shortcut with some mouse buttons] -
RE: Change case of selected text option
Jean Lalonde > 2023-09-08 10:31
> So it would time and click saving if a user could just select text or an item and execute on it from QAP a transformation to desired version of letter case
This is something that can be done with my new project Quick Clipboard Editor. This app is still in an early stage of development and there is much to do. I invite you to test it. -
RE: Change case of selected text option
Jean Lalonde > 2023-09-08 10:31
See also this section of the forum dedicated to QCE:
https://forum.quickaccesspopup.com/forum...php?fid=27 -
RE: Change case of selected text option
Popleft > 2023-09-14 05:41
But if I am not mistake, features of QCE are accessible only from within that program itself? [I created a new topic about in its section of the forum: https://forum.quickaccesspopup.com/showt...p?tid=2603] -
RE: Change case of selected text option
Popleft > 2023-12-09 12:56
And so it seems I must wait for both an update of Quick Clipboard Editor and ability to integrate its Change case sub-menu feature with Quick Access Popup [https://forum.quickaccesspopup.com/showt...05#pid7005] -
RE: Change case of selected text option
Jean Lalonde > 2024-05-14 06:39
I update the post https://forum.quickaccesspopup.com/showt...p?tid=2603.
Full integration with QAP is still planned (I could not tell when it will be available). But with Quick Clipboard Editor v2, "Change case" commands can already be called from QAP using QCEmessenger. You can create a submenu in QAP containing "Applications" favorites calling the various "Change case" commands you need in QCE.
For example, I have this submenu in QAP:
![[Image: nTowpeF.png]](https://i.imgur.com/nTowpeF.png)
See QCEmessenger help here. When I'll find time for this, I'll do tip and trick page about this. Until then, you can ask here if you need help. -
RE: Change case of selected text option
Jean Lalonde > 2025-06-09 15:38
Quick Clipboard Editor integration with Quick Access Popup is now in beta test. See:
https://forum.quickaccesspopup.com/showt...p?tid=3035 -
RE: Change case of selected text option
Popleft > 2025-08-12 09:32
Thank you for not forgetting about this topic
But because Quick Clipboard Editor seems to be messing up audio file editing in my outdated version of Sony Sound Forge and I cannot indulge myself right now in tackling this matter, I will keep using this non perfect AHK V1 script of mine, tailored for users of the Polish language:
Code:; ███ text conversion ███
/*
These snippets work; sort of. Because sometimes they are some glitches
They have to use >>SendRaw<< - because if >>SendInput<< is used then:
● the text is no longer pasted on the sign-by-sign basis but immediately as a whole
● every >>+<< gets lost in transformation
● first >>#<< character cause itself and everything following it to be removed from the outcome
● [and probably many more errors like the two above]
*/
; ███ text conversion ███ Lower Case ███
^+l:: ; Control + Shift + L
Clipboard := ""
SendInput, ^c ; This copies selected text- by executing the >>Control + C<< keyboard shortcut
ClipWait
SendRaw % Format("{:L}", Clipboard)
Return
; ███ text conversion ███ Title Case ███
^+t:: ; Control + Shift + T
Clipboard := ""
SendInput, ^c ; This copies selected text- by executing the >>Control + C<< keyboard shortcut
ClipWait
StringUpper Clipboard, Clipboard, T ; Alternative approach. This >>T<< however is a title mode conversion and has nothing to do with the >>T<< from the defined shortcut
SendRaw %Clipboard%
Return
; ███ text conversion ███ Sentence Case ███
^+s:: ; Control + Shift + S
Clipboard := ""
SendInput, ^c ; This copies selected text- by executing the >>Control + C<< keyboard shortcut
ClipWait
Clipboard := convert_Clipboard_content_to_sentence_case()
SendRaw %Clipboard%
Return
convert_Clipboard_content_to_sentence_case()
{
full_text := Clipboard ; This assign Clipboard content first
StringLower, full_text, full_text ; This convert then everything in Clipboard to lowercase
sentence_case_output := ""
next_character_should_be_upper := true
polish_uppercase_mapping := { "ą":"Ą", "ć":"Ć", "ę":"Ę", "ł":"Ł", "ń":"Ń", "ó":"Ó", "ś":"Ś", "ź":"Ź", "ż":"Ż" }
Loop, Parse, full_text
{
current_character := A_LoopField
if (next_character_should_be_upper && (current_character ~= "[a-z]" || polish_uppercase_mapping.HasKey(current_character)))
{
if (polish_uppercase_mapping.HasKey(current_character))
current_character := polish_uppercase_mapping[current_character]
else
StringUpper, current_character, current_character
next_character_should_be_upper := false
}
else if (current_character ~= "[.!?]") {
next_character_should_be_upper := true
}
sentence_case_output .= current_character
}
Return sentence_case_output
}
; ███ text conversion ███ Upper Case ███
+^u:: ; Control + Shift + U
Clipboard := ""
SendInput, ^c ; This copies selected text- by executing the >>Control + C<< keyboard shortcut
ClipWait
SendRaw % Format("{:U}", Clipboard)
Return
; ███ text conversion ███ Toggle Case ███
/*
Feature not included
*/ -
RE: Change case of selected text option
Jean Lalonde > 2025-08-12 09:56
> But because Quick Clipboard Editor seems to be messing up audio file editing in my outdated version of Sony Sound Forge
You can exclude applications in QCE. See "Options, Clipboard History".