This beta release includes improvements to "Script" editing, managing "Saved commands", editing images, "History Search/Quick Paste" window and various other improvements.
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Version Beta: 3.0.9.1 (2025-04-08)
Script commands
- in the "Script" command dialog box, add buttons to add to scripts "Saved commands", "Change Case" commands, "Convert" commands and "Others"
- the "Saved commands" button also includes entries to "Manage Saved commands" and "Create a Saved command"
- the "Others" button inserts the "Pause" and "MsgBox" commands in the script
- when the script is executed, the new command "MsgBox" interrupts the script and shows a custom message box and asks if the script should stop or continue
- stop showing the "completed" dialog box at the end of a "Find and replace" when executed from a script
- add the hotkey Shift+Ctrl+C to open the "Script" command dialog box
- fix a bug not remembering the last session script command
Saved commands
- add a button "Create a Saved command" with a menu listing all commands types
- in the menu bar, add the submenu "Manage Saved commands" to the "Saved commands" main menu
- in the "Manage Saved commands" menu, add the new item "Create a Saved command" with a submenu listing all commands types
- add a "Delete" button to the "Manage Saved commands" dialog box
- after saving a command, show a temporary confirmation dialog box closed automatically after 2 seconds
- when executing a command from "Manage Saved commands", close the dialog box only when executing interactive "Find" or "Find and replace" commands
- before executing a saved command, set the insertion point at the beginning of the editor in order to process the full text (except for interactive "Find" or "Find and replace" commands)
- in "Option, Various", remove the option "Number of Saved commands in lists" and include in the "Saved commands" dropdown lists all Saved commands for the command type
Commands dialog box
- replace the "Cancel" button with a "Close" button
- keep the command dialog box open after saving, close it only when clicking the "Execute" or "Close" buttons
Various
- fix a bug when detecting the history position of clip in the editor
Version Beta: 3.0.9.2 (2025-04-10)
- fix bug preventing setting a hotkey for saved commands
- avoid error message when resetting saved commands hotkeys
Version Beta: 3.0.9.3 (2025-04-11)
Manage Saved commands Hotkeys
- in "Manage Saved commands hotkeys", add a checkbox to show all saved commands (not only those with a hotkey)
- fix a bug when user cancels the selection of a hotkey from "Manage Saved command hotkeys"
Various improvements
- in "History Search/Quick Paste" window, show a tooltip (popup text) containing the full text (up to 1,500 characters) when the mouse stays over row for longer than 800 ms and keep it visible for 3 seconds
- support multiple selection for "Sort" commands
- reselect multiple selections after executing commands "Convert", "Change Case", "Substring", "Insert string", "Filter lines", "Filter characters", "Reformat paragraph", "Sort", "Convert number base" and "Convert color"
Bug fixes
- fix a bug when opening the "Convert number base" command dialog box
- fix bug increasing the width of command dialog boxes "Save" and "Cancel" buttons each time a saved command is retrieved
Version Beta: 3.0.9.4 (2025-04-15)
Popup in "Quick Paste/History Search" list
- in "Quick Paste/History Search", when the mouse is over an image clip, show the image in a temporary popup window shown after 800 ms and closed by clicking in the image
- in "Options, Clipboard History", add options to show a popup of "Text" or of "Image" clips in in the "History Search/Quick Paste" window ("Text" enabled by default and "Image" disabled by default)
- when a clip contains both text and image, show text popup in priority
Copy to Append
- new checkbox on editor's toolbar to enable or disable the "Copy to Append" option
- in "Options, Various", add a checkbox option to turn off "Copy to Append" on editor's "Paste", "Past Text", "Save" or "Cancel" commands (enabled by default)
Version Beta: 3.0.9.5 (2025-04-30)
QCE Messenger
- internal changes in preparation for integration with Quick Access Popup
- support for QCEmessenger command PastePinned to paste pinned clips to the active application
- add QCE Messenger command "Paste" to paste the Clipboard to the active application
Various changes and bug fixes
- change shortcut for Script command dialog box from Shift+Ctrl+C (used by Quick Access Popup) to Shift+Ctrl+I
- fix bug in commands gui increasing buttons of width
- in check for update, add info to the error message displayed when QCE cannot retreive lastest version numbers
- better error handling when when saving an empty Clipboard clip (typically at system startup) with internal error code 9
Version Beta: 3.0.9.6 (2025-05-20)
History search/Quick paste window
- improve the timing of show/hide of the popup window showing longer text or large image when mouse hovers a row in the list
- fix a bug showing popup when the window is not active
- fix a bug making the window always on top
- increase the size of popup window for vertical images
Various changes
- internal changes to optimize Scintilla editor notification processing:
- avoid the "Illegal character" error message
- optimize the update of status bar and menu states
- make QCE react much faster to very fast typing
- fix a bug making QCE icon turn to "S" in notification zone during startup
- in the confirmation window for "Delete ALL clips from history database", fix a bug if user types "ALL" to confirm but hits "Cancel"
- for safety, restart QCE after deleting all clips
Version Beta: 3.0.9.7 (2025-05-24)
Edit the image with an external editor
- add a command to edit the image in the editor in a graphical editor (hotkey Ctrl+Alt+I)
- under "Options, Various", add the configurable path and argument to launch an external image editor
- add the "Edit image in external editor" command to the "Edit" menu and to the menu shown when clicking an image in the editor
- enable the "Edit image in external editor" menu only when the editor contains an image
Various improvements
- optimize notification: stop processing content changes on selection notifications
- show the menu when clicking in images in the editor with both left and right click (not only left click)
- redesign the "Options, Various" dialog box
- change the default quality from 75% to 90% when saving a clipboard image to a jpeg file
- always display the history position in the last section of the status bar (not only on developer's systems)
- upgrade to Scintilla v5.5.6; add credits for help from Scintilla and AHK developers
- new function to get file version using DLL calls in About dialog box
Version Beta: 3.0.9.8 (2025-05-26)
- fine tuning how is handled the parameter field for the external image editor
- the default parameter is now "%filepath%" (including the double quotes in case the path to the image file includes spaces)
- the user can add other parameters if needed, but must ensure that the required double quotes are included
- for example, with JPEGView, you can ask to open the image on the second monitor with the parameter "%filepath%" / monitor 2 (always including the quotes)
- See
https://clipboard.quickaccesspopup.com/e...ge-editor/
Version Beta: 3.0.9.9 (2025-05-28)
History Search/Quick Paste
- replace the "Always on top" link with a checkbox
- add the checkbox "Images only" to show only clips containing bitmaps in the search result
- add keyboard shortcuts to buttons
See the download link at the top of this post