Download QCE here.
In this release, a full fledged "
Reformat paragraph" command allow to arrange the text in the Clipboard editor a multitude of options. Also, "Saved commands" can now be launched from a dedicated menu in the menu bar and from
local hotkeys (active with the QCE window is active).
This should be the last v1.x interim release (except small bug fixes). The major remodeling in v1.3 "Save commands" prepares the way for version 2 which will allow you to trigger changes to the clipboard from
global system hotkeys, from external commands (.bat or shell scripts, any programming language, etc.) or from other applications (like Quick Access Popup). Stay tuned!
Version 1.3.2.2 (2024-02-28)
- add to the tray menu (QCE icon on the taskbar) the comment "Restore QCE window position" in case the editor or history search windows stay invisible at startup
- when saving the editor and history search window position, avoid saving invalid position if window is minimized
Version: 1.3.2.1 (2024-02-15)
- in "Manage Saved commands" make sure the delete confirmation is visible if QCE is running "Always on top"
- in "Convert, HTML, Encode...", fix error encoding line breaks with "<br \>" instead of "<br />") and finaly change it for simply "<br>" as used in regular HTML
- in "Commands, Reformat paragraph", fix bug when one of the "Reformat punctuation" fields is empty
Version 1.3.2 (2023-12-03)
Clipboard change and Excel
- various internal changes fighting against the Excel bug "The Picture Is Too Large and Will Be Truncated" and the "Can't open Clipboard for reading" conflict
- stop updating the status bar content and set status bar message to "Unavailable" when Excel is running
Saved commands
- add "Delete" to the "Manage Saved commands" list context menu
- add a flag preventing confirmation prompt to replace the existing saved command when it is executed just after it has been retrieved
- stop blocking clipboard changes when "Manage saved commands" dialog box is displayed
- fix bug to show the "Manage saved commands" dialog box on top if editor is always on top
- fix bug when setting a hotkey for a Saved command and user cancels the "Select hotkey" dialog box
Various
- fix bug updating the checkmark when the QCE tray menu item "Suspend Hotkeys" is selected or deselected
Version 1.3.1 (2023-11-16)
- fix bug executing "Find" and "Find and replace" commands from a Saved command
- fix bug retrieving the "Replace All" option from a Saved command
- fix bug assigning a hotkey to a Saved command
Version 1.3 (2023-11-15)
Reformat paragraphs
- implement the Edit command "Reformat paragraph"
- add the "Reformat paragraph" item under the "Edit" menu and assign it the Ctrl+R shortcut
- reformat options
- reformat text to one merged paragraph on one long line (no line breaks) or with lines of a maximum width
- reformat text keeping detected paragraphs breaks with lines of a maximum width (a paragraph break consists of two line breaks)
- align lines left, right, centered or indented
- when alignement is indented, set the text (spaces, tabs, or any other characters) used for indentation, separately for the first line and for the remaining lines of the paragraphs
- optionally reformat punctuation (spaces after periods, commas, etc.) with configurable lists of characters for various rules:
- one space after given characters (default ",;:")
- two spaces after given characters (default ".!?")
- one space before given characters (default none, can be used in French for ":")
- upper case the first character after given punctuation characters (default ".!?")
Saved Commands
- redesign the "Save command" dialog box inside "Edit" dialog boxes
- add a "Suggest" button to get a title from the current dialog box options
- add a checkbox to add the saved command to the "Saved commands" menu
- add a selector for "Local hotkey" to launch the command when QCE window is active
- Saved commands menu
- add "Saved commands" to main menu bar with "Manage saved command" duplicated from Edit menu
- add submenus to "Saved commands" for each command type having saved commands flagged for the menu
- Manage Saved commands dialog box
- add the "Execute" button to launch the selected saved command
- rename the "Load" button to "Edit" (to open the edit command dialog box and eventualy save or execute it)
- add "Execute" to the list context menu to launch the selected command
- add columns to the Saved commands list for "In Menu" and "Local hotkey"
- initially sort the list by last edit date descending and revert order by clicking the first column header "#"
- Execute saved commands
- from the "Saved commands" menu
- from local hotkeys (in case of duplicate hotkeys, the most recently saved or edited prevails)
- from the context menu "Execute" and from the "Execute" button
- add "Save" button in Edit Commands dialog box to save the command without executing it
- in Edit commands dialog box, rename the "Go" button to "Execute" (for consistency)
- add keyboard shortcut Ctrl+M to open the "Manage Saved commands" dialog box
- add columns to Saved commands database for menu, local hotkey and date-time (UTC time)
Known issues
- when copying a large number of cells in Excel, the dialog box "The Picture Is Too Large and Will Be Truncated" may appear (it has no know bad effect - just close the dialog box)
- sometimes, when using Excel, the Clipboard may get locked (until a better solution is found, as a workaround, close or relaunch QCE)
- bold font sometimes wrongly set in Editor window (under investigation - puzzlingly intermittent...)
Download QCE here.
For an introduction to QCE, see
Features and Help here (updated to v1.2).
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