May 16th, 2012· Statistics can be disabled in the free edition.
· Minor/cosmetic improvements.
March 2nd, 2012· Bugfix in the phrase popup menu.
December 13th, 2011· Bugfix in the #calc macro function.
November 26th, 2011· The Search feature now excludes the Last used phrases folder.
· New import option for the line-by-line text import feature.
· The Statistics feature now remembers the hour-rate.
· Minor bugfixes and cosmetic improvements.
October 26th, 2011· Offline Licensing now also supports Portable Mode.
· Solved issue with separators when importing text files.
· Solved issue with the input dialog of the #url macro function.
August 31st, 2011· New import feature to import .CSV files that contain multi-line text.
· Warning dialog removed that accidentally appeared if you drag & drop phrases within the phrase tree.
August 16th, 2011· New import of InstantText and ShortHand glossary files.
· You can now select the desired Microsoft Word .dot file when importing Autotext fom Microsoft Office.
· Minor bugfixes and cosmetic improvements.
August 16th, 2011· New macro functions #lowercaseword and #uppercaseword
· Unnecessary separator lines in phrase popup menu removed.
· Improved parsing of macro parameters. You can now also use space in string operations.
· Improved detection of unwanted Autotexts.
· Resolved rare startup crashes.
· Keyboard is not locked anymore after bulk phrase editing.
June 6th, 2011· The ENTER key was locked after entering an Autotext for a phrase folder.
· The popup menu did not disappear after accepting a single-word autocompletion.
· Search & Replace added a new lin in the phrase contents in rare cases.
· The expert option "Route ENTER and TAB through PhraseExpress" is now enabled by default.
May 24th, 2011· Improved single-word list import function for the text prediction feature.
April 29th, 2011· Resovled an issue with the registration of Single-User license keys on computers running a Citrix/TerminalServer client.
· Improved phrase popup menu display performance.
April 19th, 2011· Improved error-tolerance of the phrase file network transmission between client and server by increased time-out parameters.
· Resolved a rare access violation error in the popup menu and at startup.
· The client now verifies if configuration file updates are successfully written to the hard disk to detect access conflicts with 3rd party programs (e.g. backup tasks or Antivirus scanners) or write access permission issues.
· "Range-Check Error" that may occur during the initial typing speed measurement.
January 11th, 2011· Tried to solve blocking of the ENTER and TAB key which may have occurred after waking the PC from hibernation.
· Formula detection in #CALC macro fixed.
· If pasting text from floating menus, no manually entered test input is appended anymore.
· Option "Ignore Caps Lock" does now work properly after waking PC from hibernation.
December 22nd, 2010· Startup error removed that occurred on on some computers.
· Color issue fixed in the phrase tree view when using the "high contrast" Windows color scheme.
· New learned text suggestions are not copied into the "Last Used" system folder anymore.
December 17th, 2010· The ENTER and TAB-keys are not routed through PhraseExpress by default anymore to avoid potential issues they may block such keys.
· Improved passing of proxy settings viacommand-line parameter
September 18th, 2010· Optimized popup menu requires significantly less Windows UI resources. Useful for phrase files with more than >300 folders on computers with only little memory.
· Much faster display of phrase popup menus.
· Bugfix for users trying to open a phrase folder without having read permissions.
September 7th, 2010· Fixed Uninstallation bug.
· Fixed errornous Client-Server version check issue that reported an out-of-date server.
· Fixed TextExpander import b
August 31st, 2010· Bugfix of the client identification if using a TerminalServer.
· A warning is issued if you uninstall PhraseExpress while a license key is still registered with the installation.
June 22nd, 2010· New command-line parameter -configfile=... that uses the specified custom configuration .ini file on startup.
May 26th, 2010· Added import for Text Expander phrase files.
· The proxy configuration can now be passed via command-line parameter to the installer for automated software deployment.
· Solved an "Access violation" issue related to the clipboard.
· Minor improvements and cosmetic bugfixes.
April 19th, 2010· Improved #calc macro that now allows to round to integer.
· Fixed issue with parenthesis in the #calc macro.
· You can now use the period (or comma character) to define real numbers.
· Fixed drag & drop of phrase files into the phrase tree of the main program window.
· Proxy settings are now saved correctly.
· The update installer now waits for successful shut-down of the running program.
April 19th, 2010· New import for phrase files created with Texter.
· Improved import of TextExpander files. TextExpander files can now also imported by drag & drop into the phrase tree.
· The duplicate filter can now optionally merge duplicates across phrase sub-folders.
March 31st, 2010· Improved import of TextExpander and GhostTyper phrase files.
· Tried to resolve access violation errors that may occur because of the clipboard cache.
March 30th, 2010· Added import for TextExpander phrase files.
· Search & Replace has not replaced any instance of a search string if it matches a phrase that has multiple Autotext assigned.
· Improved vertical alignment of form items.
· Added support for multiple email addresses in the #mail macro.
· Added support for RTF formatted GhostTyperXML phrases.
· Fixed issues with the import of phrases from earlier PhraseExpress versions (v5 and earlier).
· Removed PhraseExpress v2 phrase file import.
· Input focus is set to the phrase description input field when creating a new phrase.
· Added support for hexadecimal values in #calc macro function.
· Improved the duplicate filter.
· Minor improvements and cosmetic bugfixes.
February 28th, 2010· Client could create new phrases by using a hotkey even if no write access rights have been granted for the phrases root folder.
· Updates do not require input of the license key anymore.
· New: Parameter for the OK-button of the #msgbox dialog window.
· Bug solved if a linked phrase has been deleted.
· PhraseExpress now checks and prevent loading a phrase file that is already loaded.
· Added a taskbar-button for the #calendar date selection window.
· Minor improvements and cosmetic bugfixes.
February 9th, 2010· New options which information to be displayed in the popup menu.
· Focus will now automatically put into the QuickSearch and Search & Replace input field.
· Search parameters are automatically determined if any are configured.
· Improved check for unsuitable hotkey and mouse button shortcut combinations.
· Bug in the password mechanism resolved if client connects to the PhraseExpress Server.
· The order of popup menu items were wrong in rare situations.
· You can now re-use the same date choice for multiple instances of the #calendar macro while being able to choose different date formats.
· Improved sorting of clipboard cach items.
· If PhraseExpress is temporarily disabled, it can now also be reactivated via the task tray icon menu.
January 29th, 2010· Bug with HTML-formatted phrases resolved.
· Improved navigation in the phrase tree.
· Bugfix in phrase selection in the phrase menu.
· Properties menu item added to the phrase folder context menu in the phrase tree view.
· Bug fixed when scrolling in the phrase menu.
· Increased display performance of the phrase menu.
· Bugfix of the focus change in certain situations.
· The auto-updater now waits longer before starting the update to allow PhraseExpress to shut-down properly.
· The Quicksearch input field now gets focus directly if the search panel is opened.
January 13th, 2010· 3rd applications such as backup software may block access to the phrase file in rare cases. This may have caused PhraseExpress to create a new phrase file and overwrite the original file. To prevent data loss, PhraseExpress now ask whether to load an existing phrase file or to create a new one.
· In rare cases, PhraseExpress forgot the phrase file location after importing a phrase file.
· Issue solved with caps letters if an Autotext was triggered with ENTER or TAB.
· Bug with the synchronization of the Autotext buffer solved that lead to missing Autotext detection.
· Export bug resolved that caused a disabled Export menu item.
· Bugfix attempt to solve issues with Asian character sets.
· Update notifications now contain more information about the different update types.
· PhraseExpress now verifies the phrase file's version compatibility.
· Rare bug when calculating the popup menu width resolved.
· You can now switch to a local phrase file if the connection to a PhraseExpress Server is interrupted (if you had configuration permissions the last time when logged to the Server ).
· PhraseExpress now changes into Networking mode if actually loading the phrase file from the server.
· OS-related file access errors do not trigger a PhraseExpress bug report anymore (as these errrors are not PhraseExpress related).
December 24th, 2009· Phrase folder export issue resolved.
· Issue solved if phrases containing special non-ANSI characters are drag & dropped from a floating menu.
· Export option was sometimes disabled in the phrase tree context menu.
December 17th, 2009· Sub folders could not be opened in the phrase popup menu by clicking with the mouse
December 17th, 2009· First character of an Autotext was not replaced by the phrase if the phrase is triggered by an phrase folder Autotext.
· Networking issues resolved if the codepage "US_ASCII" is missing (e.g. if using Windows XP Embeded ("Thin Clients")).
· Issues resolved if closing PhraseExpress when connected to a PhraseExpress Server.
· Improved upgrade from a previous version (Merge new phrases with existing phrases).
· Bugfix for "experimental updates" that have not loaded.
· Phrase preview is now also shown when navigation with arrow keys through the popup menu.
· Linebreak issue resolved with {#setclipboard} macro if using paste method "key-by-key".
· By default, the digital siganture is not checked anymore as it causes long program startup delays on some computers. You can perform this check manually by launching PhraseExpress with the command-line parameter -certcheck.
September 24th, 2009· Formatted phrases may be deleted if they match in a Search & Replace operation. Now, Search & Replace ignores any formatted phrase.
· Links to manual fixed in USB mode.
· Duplicate output of '&' characters in text prediction insertions fixed.
· Many minor improvements and non-critical bugfixes.
April 7th, 2009· New option in the Expert Options that allows to choose the internal text insertion method for the key-by-key paste method. Please experiment with this setting if you have problems with international character sets or paste issues in certain applications. Additional information can be found in the manual.
· Problems with entering of special characters ("dead keys") solved.
March 24th, 2009· Export issue solved that has been introduced with v6.0.151.
March 19th, 2009· In rare cases, the phrase file can get corrupted if phrases contain special sequences of cyrrilic or asian letters. Standard latin character sets as used in English or European languages are not affected by this issue.
· Popup positioning improved.
· Improved task tray icon behaviour if clicked while holding the CTRL-key
· Many minor improvements and non-critical bugfixes.
February 12th, 2009· Missing new lines issue resolved.
· Use of MS Accessibility features disabled by default as it seem to crash some applications.
February 6th, 2009· Issue resolved if special characters are inserted using the key-by-key paste method and certain keyboard layouts are enabled.
· Improved clipboard data exchange.
· Improved single word text prediction. The file import now also recognizes single words (video demo)
· Many minor improvements and non-critical bugfixes.
January 13th, 2009· Improved HTML support
· Improved detection of unwanted Autotext
· Bitmaps can now later be switched from embedded vs. linked state at any time by right-clicking
· Several minor bug fixes
December 23rd, 2008· New: Import of .da command packs
· New: Focus will be set to the current application after showing the unwanted Autotext detection dialog.
· Fix: Recursive popup bug.
· Fix: Several minor bug fixes
December 4th, 2008· MS Office AutoCorrect entries can now be exported for other users.
· Phrase popup menu is now placed next to the cursor also in FireFox.
· Corrections in the Manual.
· Fixed wrong placement of Start menu entries created by the installer.
· Fixed incorrect Autotext delimiters when importing sample phrases from the previous version.
· Client Manager: Correct display of the columns in the Monitor tab.
· Bugfix of installation file command-line parameters which are used for remote installations of the workstation installation.
· Fixed minor issues in the #calendar macro.
· Improved recognition of unwanted Autotext replacements.
· Fixed update notification bugs.
· Improved application focus switching.
· Fixed problems of importing bitmaps from previous PhraseExpress versions.
· Improved recognition of new clipboard contents for the Clipboard Cache.
· Improved data security by creating a shadow copy before saving the phrase file.
November 14th, 2008· MS Office AutoCorrect entries can now be exported for other users.
· Phrase popup menu is now placed next to the cursor also in FireFox.
· Corrections in the Manual.
· Fixed wrong placement of Start menu entries created by the installer.
· Fixed incorrect Autotext delimiters when importing sample phrases from the previous version.
· Client Manager: Correct display of the columns in the Monitor tab.
· Bugfix of installation file command-line parameters which are used for remote installations of the workstation installation.
· Fixed minor issues in the #calendar macro.
· Improved recognition of unwanted Autotext replacements.
· Fixed update notification bugs.
· Improved application focus switching.
· Fixed problems of importing bitmaps from previous PhraseExpress versions.
· Improved recognition of new clipboard contents for the Clipboard Cache.
October 29th, 2008· Support for HTML formatting
PhraseExpress now supports Rich Text and HTML-formatted phrases which can include pictures and hyperlinks as well:
· Formatted phrases can now also be edited within PhraseExpress.
· Up to 10x faster loading time
A new file format reduces the phrase file size by more than 10 times compared to previous versions:
· Loading time in a network is consequently speed up by 10x. Phrases are now encrypted using the state-of-the-art AES encryption method.
· The Autotext text insertion has also been accelerated up to 400%.
· This overall performance increase alone makes v6 a 'Must Have' Upgrade.
· Advanced Autotext options
New Autotext text options have been added to PhraseExpress:
· The delimiter following an Autotext can now be suppressed by PhraseExpress.
· Prelimiters and Delimiters can now be customized separately for each phrase. E.g the abbreviation 'pex' will be expanded to 'PhraseExpress', while 'pex.' is recognized separately as e.g. 'http://www.phraseexpress.com'.
· Any Autotext option can now be defined for individual phrases (vs. phrase folders only) and optionally inherited to sub-folders.
· Intelligent Autotext Undo
PhraseExpress recognizes unwanted text replacements automatically and suppresses the text replacement the next time you enter the Autotext:
· Restrict Autotext and Hotkeys to certain applications
The scope of Autotexts and Hotkeys of any phrase can now be restricted to certain programs or excluded from a customizable list of applications:
· This enables Autotexts to trigger different phrases depending on the target application.
· The scope of the Text Prediction feature can also be restricted to certain applications.
· Autocomplete for individual words
· The unique text prediction feature which has been introduced in v5 has been significantly improved. Additionally, it also offers to auto-complete single words rather than full sentences only.
· The new autocomplete-monitor offers technical enthusiasts a peek under the hood of the engine of the text prediction feature.
· Multi-language support
· PhraseExpress supports Unicode for multi-language phrases but now also offers to switch the keyboard language layout automatically.
· This enables multi-language users to use different language within a single phrase with correct display of the characters.
· Or you can highlight any text and let PhraseExpress change the langauge scheme on demand.
· Automated Email creation
PhraseExpress can now compose an email including html text/bitmaps (Outlook only), file attachement and definition of cc: and bcc:. The body text length is now only limited by Outlook and PhraseExpress can be configured to send the email immediately without need of confirmation:
· Runs from a USB memory device
· PhraseExpress can now be used on a USB memory stick. If running from an USB stick it stores all user and configuration data on the removable device only and leaves no traces on the host PC.
The Clipboard Cache can now optionally strip off unwanted text formatting and spaces:
Customizable hotkeys to open the PhraseExpress settings, to edit the last used phrase and to temporarily disable PhraseExpress:
· New macros functions for advanced text processing.
· New macro #calc for math calculations.
· New #calendar macro for comfortable date selection and insertion into a phrase.
· Improved #datetime macro can now output the week or day of the year.
· New macro #msgbox for ouput of a dialog window and customizable buttons.
· New #cursor macro to allow custom cursor placement after phrase output.
· Simplified input of nested macros.
· CTRL-Click onto a phrase copies the phrase content to the clipboard rather then pasting it into an application.
· Phrases can be sorted alphabetically by their Description or now also by their Autotexts.
· Over-all improved user interface with 'fluid layout'. Only relevant options are displayed to minimize distraction.
· Improved support for multiple monitors.
· The auto-check for updates feature can now be customized (notifications only in case of important updates or optionally minor updates).
August 22nd, 2008· The usage statistics can be disabled for all workstation installation from the Client Manager of the PhraseExpress Network Edition.
August 12th, 2008· Bugfix CTRL I vs. TAB key.
· "Clear Clipboard cache on Exit" setting is now kept.
· Text suggestion feature toolbar display issue resolved
July 22nd, 2008· Autotext now works after Unlocking the PC
· The PhraseExpress folder My DocumentsPhraseExpress is only created if required.
June 17th, 2008· Help-button did not open help.
· Improved XML parsing error handling.
· Added short internal delay for the #focus macro to increase reliability.
May 16th, 2008· IMPORTANT: Previous versions may have truncated the phrase file in rare cases if the phrase file is saved while Windows is shutting down.
· Folder and phrase duplicate generation with garbled contents bug fixed.
· Enhanced XML validation when loading the phrase file.
· Incompatibility with 3rd party clipboard related tools fixed.
· Startup 100% CPU load issue fixed.
· Import optimization (duplicate finder) improved.
April 24th, 2008· Temporary Failure of Clipboard Cache resolved
· Access permissions improved for the PhraseExpress Network Edition
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