aText 3.21
7/9/24
- Improved Rich text editor when inserting or editing 'variable'.
- Major bug fixes.
aText 3.20
9/8/24
- 'File' variable.
- Improved Attachments and embedded Image snippet.
- 'Sort' menu → Keep groups on top, Insert new item at top.
aText 3.19
6/5/24
- Floating license. See the "Buy aText license" page.
- Portable mode. See aTet menu → Shortcuts.
aText 3.18
6/11/23
- "Edit with" for editing snippet with external app.
- Fixed issues of the snippet view's layout.
aText 3.17
26/10/23
- "Mouse" variable for mouse scripting. Check the latest Examples.
- UI improvements.
aText 3.16
21/9/23
- New AppleScript commands: Delete, Import. Check the latest Examples → "Scripting aText" for usage.
- Improved CSV importing, allow silently importing simplified aText CSV's format.
- Workaround for Microsoft Remote Desktop. Check the latest Examples → Workarounds → Mac.
- Added option "Lines" for Multi-select List Field.
aText 3.15.1
18/8/23
- Improved snippet group option "Sync".
- Allow export and import JSON file (aText's format).
- Allow empty item in Menu Field.
aText 3.15
1/8/23
- New options for Field variable: Highlight and Mandatory.
- Added tools and keyboard shortcuts to edit menu items in Field variable.
- New variable type: Snippet editor → Insert → Abbreviation.
- New snippet group option: Sync.
- Added option in aText menu → View → Show abbreviation on the left side.
- Personal Lifetime license now allows 5 activations in a year.
aText 3.14.1
6/7/23
- Fixed a crash in version 3.14.
- Improved snippet group option "Show in snippet menu".
aText 3.14
4/7/23
- Improved Snippet Suggestion and added new options in Preferences → Snippet Menu.
- Added option "Delay after finishing aText's popups" in Preferences → Advanced.
- Fixed a few issues.
aText 3.13
29/5/23
- Many improvements in UI, esp. the treeview, scroller.
- Bug fixes.
aText 3.12
23/4/23
- Quick search (Cmd + Shift + F) in the main window.
- New Applications Config option: Send Right-click to paste.
- New option Default Rich text font size.
aText 3.11
10/4/23
- New Advanded Sync mode to counter Maximum path length limitation on Windows.
- Fixed a few bugs.
- Improved Accessibility.
- Improved translations: Chinese, German, Russian.
aText 3.9
20/2/23
- Improved Sync (esp. Advanced mode).
- Translations.
- Some UI parts were removed and moved to the Examples.
aText 3.8.1
4/11/22
- Fixed many UI crashes and bugs.
aText 3.8
26/10/22
- Improved Rich text editor. It no longer creates a copy of itself in user data folder when changing its settings.
- Added Rich text's default font options in Preferences.
- Added option "Use Paste and Match Style shortcut when pasting Rich text" in Preferences. This is recommended for Microsoft Outlook.
aText 3.7.2
10/10/22
- Fixed abbreviation text box does not accept Space in a recent version.
- Fixed a major issue of "Allow using Tab key as a modifier key".
aText 3.7.1
6/10/22
- Fixed a major issue of Rich text snippet.
- Improved positioning and resizing of aText's popups.
- Moved options for Fields window from the Preferences window to the Fields window. Added a new option for Fields window.
- Fixed some bugs.
- Rich text editor is now powered by the modern WebView control.
- Added a shortcut to show the Insert menu in the snippet text editor.
- Improved the license window and license messages.
aText 3.7
3/9/22
- Added "Enabled if" setting to enable/disable snippet on condiftion.
- Changed Tags in the main window for better performance, "snippet variable" tags (i.e. datetime, snippet, caret, key, etc) are removed.
- Automatically restore the latest backup if the data is corrupted.
- Check Abbreviation duplication while editing Abbreviation.
- Improved "Open last used snippet" to work while searching in the main window.
- New advanced options for "Applications Config" → Added workaround for Visual Studio Code's Terminal in new Examples.
- Added Search Note.
aText 3.6
9/8/22
- aText is now scriptable (via Apple Scripts). Check Examples for usages.
- Automatically download and install update.
- Bug fixes.
aText 3.5.3
29/7/22
- Some fixes.
- Added "Delay before resending trigger" to "Applications Config".
- Added a few samples and workarounds.
aText 3.5.2
27/7/22
- Fixed issue with keyboard layout (Dvorak).
- Fixed the default delimiters set does not include asterisk letter. Added some delimiters to the default set.
aText 3.5.1
21/7/22
- Fixed Snippet Hotkey. This feature had never worked on macOS.
- Added Delete comfirmation.
- Added new samples.
- Remade the "Backup frequency" preference.
- Allow many custom "delimiters" in group's settings.
- Other important fixes.
aText 3.5
11/7/22
- Improved Field. New options for the Fields window in Preferences → General.
- Updated Examples for the Field feature.
aText 3.4
21/6/22
- System variable.
- Some important fixes.
aText 3.3.1
24/5/22
- Added option "Show aText icon in the menu bar".
- Added hotkey "Open the main window".
- Other improvements.
aText 3.3
16/5/22
- Major changes to the build process. Added ARM64 binary. Minimum supported macOS version is now 10.12 (Sierra). Solved aText 3.2 did not work in macOS 10.11 - 10.14.
- Added Transformations for Script snippet.
- Added Find and Extract to Transformations.
- Remade the Fields editor window and the Search window for macOS 10.12 and 10.13. Improved dragging and resizing of the Fields editor window.
- New examples for Find and Extract transformation.
- Other fixes and improvements.
aText 3.2
22/4/22
- Menu Field and Abbreviation Parameter can be referenced in value of Number Field.
- Added Excluded option for Field.
- Some performance optimizations for the Treeview, it is noticeable when viewing (expanding) a group of hundred thousands of item.
- Improved Toolbar layout.
- Other UI fixes and improvements.
aText 3.1.2
28/3/22
- Added "Transformations" for Date/Time variable.
- Added option "Quick mode" for the Sort menu.
- Enable "Convert Rich text's Paragraph tag to Span tag" by default.
- Added local web sever for expanding Rich text's embedded image in app Craft.
- Other UI fixes and improvements.
aText 3.1.1
17/3/22
- Prevent crash when expanding in aText's Rich text editor. Now expansion is disabled in aText's Rich text editor, and most of aText's controls.
- Added "Time format → Before noon / After noon" option in aText's Preferences.
- Fixed items in aText menu in the main window → Shorcuts.
- Fixed some crashes.
- More workarounds for Rich text editor, please check it.
aText 3.1.0
12/3/22
- Minor changes in activating, UI, update checker.
aText 3.0.9
9/3/22
- Fixed bug "black snippet group" in the main window in version 3.0.8 on Monterey.
- Fixed label color when changing theme.
aText 3.0.8
8/3/22
- Removed buggy transparency effect in the main window on Catalina.
aText 3.0.7
8/3/22
- Added some options to the View menu.
- Fixed crash when activating license on Mojave.
- Bug fixes.
- A major change was made to the tree view to solve the issue that tooltip does not show.
aText 3.0.6
4/3/22
- Many bug fixes.
- Extend free trial period to 21 days.