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AceText Changelog

What's new in AceText 4.2.3

Jan 10, 2024
  • Bug fixes:
  • AceEdit can now be completed by pressing the AceEdit hotkey again or by clicking the AcePaste Now button; switching away from the Clipboard tab or from AceText no longer automatically completes AceEdit.
  • AcePure no longer pastes the text on the clipboard into AceText if you enabled the option to paste the text directly into the active application and you activated AcePure via the context menu on AceText’s icon in the notification area on the Windows taskbar.
  • AceText defaulted to light instead of dark colors for its tabs and clip tree while otherwise using its dark theme if Windows itself was using its dark theme when AceText was run for the first time; using Options|Dark Theme twice corrected the issue (since 4.2.0).
  • Collection|Save: Saving a collection to the same file it was already being automatically saved to shows a message explaining you don’t need to do this; this message was being shown as a modeless instead of as a modal dialog, breaking the Thanks button and “don’t show again” checkbox.
  • Extremely long regular expressions no longer cause AceText to crash with a stack overflow (but may trigger an error message saying the regular expression is too long).
  • Right-clicking certain files that have a context menu handler in a common file dialog box (such as the one used by Collection|Open) could crash AceText; this did not affect AceText collection files.
  • RSS writer: Uploading RSS feeds via FTP failed because AceText didn’t log in with the username and password that you provided (since 4.2.0).

New in AceText 4.2.2 (Jul 13, 2023)

  • Improvements:
  • Export Collection: Show a progress meter if exporting the collection takes more than one second.
  • Bug fixes:
  • AceType Lookup field that appears above the clip tree during an AceType operation now adjusts its height to the clip tree font size that you can configure in the Appearance Preferences.
  • Double-clicking a misspelled word and then switching to another clip, another collection, or closing AceText (without shutting it down) now hides the spell checker.
  • Export Collection: Exporting one file for each clip in a subfolder for each clip folder now creates the subfolders.
  • Export Collection: Exporting one file for each clip or folder and handling duplicate file names by exporting multiple clips into the same file now exports the entire selection or all selected clips instead of just one clip or folder.
  • Export Collection: Exporting to comma- or tab-delimited values failed claiming you hadn’t selected any parts to export even if you had.
  • Help|Create Portable Installation did not copy over the user word lists with learned words and learned replacements.
  • Options|Dark Theme: Toggling the theme caused the ClipHistory to stop automatically capturing clips and caused AcePaste and AceType to replace the selected text with before and after clips instead of pasting them around the selected text in the target application; AceText had to be restarted to restore the correct functionality.
  • Regex: Subroutine calls to capturing groups defined inside lookbehind are now a syntax error; previously such calls were incorrectly matched from right to left, possibly causing the regex engine to get stuck in an infinite loop.
  • Substitute Parameters dialog no longer allows you to edit the preview (doing so had no effect); pressing the Tab key in the preview now moves keyboard focus to the next control and pressing Enter is equivalent to clicking OK.

New in AceText 4.2.1 (Jan 11, 2023)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Clip|New Folder: Adding a new folder to an empty collection failed with a “list index out of bounds” error; the New Subfolder button was not affected by this bug (4.2.0 only).
  • Clip|Paste As New Clip inserts the new clip immediately after the selected clip without respecting the sort order of the folder or collection containing the selected clip.
  • Preferences|Collections: Turning off the read-only option for a collection did not in itself reset the timeout since the collection was last used, causing the collection to be automatically made read-only again within 10 seconds if the option to make collections read-only after a certain number of minutes was on and you did not do anything else with the collection at all (not even selecting a clip) less than that number of minutes ago.
  • Search: Editing the search term on the AceText Tower did not update the contents of the Search box on the AceText Editor if the Clipboard tab was active.
  • Search: Selecting a previous search term from the right-click menu of the Search box on the Clipboard tab did not update the contents of that Search box even though it did make the selected search term the new search term.
  • Search: Sending a regular expression from RegexBuddy or RegexMagic to AceText did not update the contents of the Search box if the Clipboard tab was active.

New in AceText 4.2.0 (Oct 27, 2022)

  • New features:
  • Clip|New Subfolder: Add a new folder as a subfolder of the selected folder (which the New Folder command did previously); if a clip or multiple items are selected make the new folder a sibling of those items, below the active item.
  • Preferences|Appearance: Separate taskbar buttons for the AceText Editor and AceText Tower so the taskbar button can follow its window to the correct monitor when having a taskbar on every monitor.
  • Preferences|Files: Make unused collections read-only after X minutes.
  • Improvements:
  • Clip|New Folder: Add a new folder as a sibling above the selected folder (instead of adding it as a subfolder); if a clip is selected add the new folder as a sibling; if multiple items are selected make the items children of the new folder.
  • ExcludeClipboardContentFromMonitorProcessing and CanIncludeInClipboardHistory clipboard formats are now supported for copying and (not) automatically capturing clips.
  • If another application copies text and adds one of these flags to the clipboard then AceText will not capture that text in its ClipHistory. Some password managers such as KeePassXC use this flag.
  • AceText adds these flags to any text that it copies to the clipboard, to avoid unnecessary duplication of clips if you use AceText alongside another clipboard manager (if the other clipboard manager supports at least one of these flags or the “clipboard viewer ignore” flag).
  • Manifest now includes longPathAware to indicate support for paths longer than 260 characters (which AceText has had since version 4.0.0).
  • Options|Visualize Line Breaks command can now be found under the Visualize Spaces button on the collection toolbar; the dedicated button on the main toolbar has been removed.
  • Preferences|Files: Try to obtain write access when activating a read-only collection now makes read-only collections available as targets for the Clip|Duplicate Clips and Clip|Move Clips commands.
  • Tower: AceText’s main window now changes its caption to “AceText Editor” when using the AceText Tower to distinguish the two windows in the same way that the Options menu and the documentation do; when using only one window its caption remains or reverts to just “AceText”.
  • Tower: Ctrl+X/C/V keyboard shortcuts should invoke the Cut/Copy/Paste commands in the Clip menu that operate on entire clips when the AceText Tower has keyboard focus rather than the Cut/Copy/Paste commands in the Text menu that operate on the selected text (as that may not even be visible when using the AceText Tower without the AceText Editor).
  • Tower: Right-clicking on a collection in the list of collections now shows the same context menu as right-clicking on that collection’s tab in the AceText Editor.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Parameters: If a clip contained a parameter that was automatically subsituted with a clip that has that parameter as its label and that contained another parameter that AceText needed to prompt for then the parameter that was prompted for was substituted in the wrong place or not substituted at all.
  • Preferences|Appearance: Exporting colors for the editor controls and then importing them for the search controls resulted in a palette without any colors instead of explaining that you can’t import editor control colors for the search controls.
  • Preferences|Appearance: Exporting colors for the search controls and then trying to import them (for the search controls) resulted in a false error message saying the colors were for the editor controls.

New in AceText 4.1.0 (Feb 8, 2022)

  • New features:
  • Parameters: %CURDATEYMD% and %CLIPDATEYMD% to insert the current date or the clip date in YYYYMMDD format which allows a numeric sort to sort the dates correctly.
  • Parameters: %CURMONTHZ%, %CURDAYZ%, %CURHOUR12Z%, %CURHOUR24Z%, %CURMINZ%, %CURSECZ% to insert date and time parts between 0 and 9 with a leading zero.
  • Parameters: %CURWEEK% and %CLIPWEEK% to insert the number of the week of the current year and of the clip’s year; if these are followed by %CURYEAR% or %CLIPYEAR% then those represent the year that the week started in.
  • Preferences|Appearance: Control+Wheel changes the font size instead of scrolling one page.
  • Preferences|Appearance: Option whether to show line numbers on wrapped lines or not.
  • Tower: Edit Clip command in the right-click menu that shows or activates the AceText Editor.
  • Improvements:
  • Editor: Hide buttons to duplicate, move, and delete clips that are available on the AceText Tower when using both the Tower and the Editor.
  • Editor: Toolbar button to delete clips when not using the AceText Tower.
  • Operation|Automatic Capture: Flash a “locked” icon in the taskbar if text copied to the clipboard wasn’t captured because the ClipHistory is locked.
  • Parameters: %% is now interpreted as a literal %.
  • Tower: Move to Top and Bottom buttons.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Clip|Paste As New Clip does not correctly sort the pasted clip.
  • Parameters: %CLIPMIN% and %CURMIN% were substituted with zero or with the number of the month rather than with the number of the minute.
  • Preferences|Appearance: Hiding the toolbars and then showing them again no longer puts the main menu below the main toolbar until AceText is restarted (4.0.x).
  • Preferences|Appearance: Hiding the toolbars no longer hides the main menu and the search bars (4.0.x).
  • Search: Pressing Ctrl+F to move keyboard focus to the Search box now selects the existing search term, as it did in AceText 3, so you can immediately replace the search term by entering a new search term.

New in AceText 4.0.6 (Sep 17, 2021)

  • Bug fixes:
  • AceText collections were saved incorrectly if the time separator configured in the regional settings in Windows was not a colon; AceText can read the incorrectly saved collection if the time separator is any single character but not if it is blank or multiple characters (this is very rare, but not impossible).
  • Locking the ClipHistory did not make its tab yellow.
  • Locking the ClipHistory when it is empty did not show the controls for unlocking it.
  • URL field sometimes (partially) covered the Search toolbar.

New in AceText 4.0.5 (May 24, 2021)

  • Improvement:
  • Search: Show an error message if a regular expression search failed due to a regex matching error such as infinite recursion, catastrophic backtracking, or an excessive number of group repetitions.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Before and After edit controls did not adjust their height when you changed the height but not the width of the AceText Editor window.
  • Generate Random Clip: The “Secret” checkbox stayed disabled after using the command on a collection that doesn’t have a password.
  • Search: Highlight All could trigger access violation errors when switching between clips if you excluded certain clip parts in the Search Options and that part didn’t get any other kind of syntax coloring (clip’s syntax coloring scheme, URL highlighting, or live spelling).
  • Windows 7 and later: If an error occurs when initializing the right-click menu of the taskbar button then AceText now silently ignores that menu instead of showing an error message and failing to start.

New in AceText 4.0.4 (Apr 1, 2021)

  • AceType: Pressing the AceType hotkey did not select the previously used abbreviation in the AceType lookup field like AceText 3 used to do, causing a newly typed abbreviation to be appended to the old one instead of replacing the old one.
  • Clipboard: Replace All without a replacement failed with an access violation error instead of deleting all matches on the clipboard.
  • Collection|Sort Collection Tabs now correctly puts the tabs in the alphanumerical order (natural sort) of their captions (except the 4 built-in tabs which are moved to their default positions before and after the collection tabs).
  • Convert|Characters|Characters ⇒ &htmlchar; failed on the Clipboard tab.
  • Help|Technical Support: Access Forums button now connects to the forum.
  • Preferences|Appearance: Downloading or updating a syntax coloring scheme triggered access violation errors after closing the download dialog if any syntax coloring schemes were already in use.
  • Preferences|Appearance: The option “Pressing Tab inserts spaces instead of tab characters” did not take effect when restarting AceText until you OK’d the Preferences dialog again.
  • Preferences|Applications/Windows: Entering a key combination into the edit boxes for keystrokes to simulate Paste or Copy commands no longer selects that key combination so you can easily enter sequences of multiple key combinations as you could in AceText 3.
  • Preferences|Applications/Windows: Lists of available syntax coloring schemes are now updated immediately after downloading new schemes.
  • Preferences|Applications/Windows: The Home, End, Arrow Left, and Arrow Right keys now navigate through the keystrokes to simulate Paste or Copy commands as they did in AceText 3.
  • Search Options button on the AceText Tower did nothing.
  • Substitute Parameters dialog did not correctly substitute parameters (or at all) if other parameters in the clip were automatically subsituted with text containing % signs that combined into other strings in the form of %PARAM% after substitution.

New in AceText 4.0.3 (Mar 9, 2021)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Parameters: ClipHistory parameters like %CLIPHISTORY1% are now highlighted as built-in parameters (blue) instead of as custom parameters (purple).
  • Parameters: Pasting a clip that uses both a built-in parameter and a custom parameter into another application resulted in an “invalid pointer operation” error (4.0.2 only).

New in AceText 4.0.2 (Feb 27, 2021)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Clipboard: Turning off “allow the Clipboard tab to show text copied to the clipboard...” on the Application page in the Preferences for (any other application) caused the Clipboard tab to show a “List index out of bounds” error when the clipboard was owned by an application or window for which AceText used the settings of (any other application).
  • Format|Quote Block inserted extraneous spaces at the start of each line.
  • Operation: Changed keyboard shorcuts to avoid conflicts with the Find First Clip, Find Next Clip, and Find Previous Clip commands that have been using combinations with the F6 key since AceText 1.0.0.
  • Preferences: Exporting the preferences (which applies and changes in preferences like clicking the OK button does) now also closes the Preferences dialog to prevent a “List index out of bounds” error when clicking the OK button after exporting the preferences (which would try to apply your changes a second time).
  • Preferences|Applications/Windows: Edit controls for copy and paste key combinations had oversized fonts on high DPI systems (4.0.1 only).
  • Preferences|Applications/Windows: Paste text with syntax coloring should not affect pasting clips that don’t have syntax coloring or emphasis.
  • Search: Incremental button now indicates when incremental search mode is active.

New in AceText 4.0.1 (Feb 19, 2021)

  • Bug fixes:
  • ClipHistory context menu now has items for the Automatic Capture, Auto Split, Move to Top, Move to Bottom, and Reverse Clips commands that are also available on the ClipHistory toolbar (and new in AceText 4).
  • Options|Dark Theme: When switching between light and dark themes switches between light and dark color palettes the new palette was not immediately applied to the editor controls.
  • Print: Selecting a text layout via the Font & Layout button in the print preview resulted in a huge font size.
  • Print: What to Print dialog now remembers your choices between AceText sessions.
  • Spell Check: Double-clicking a misspelled word in a clip or folder label and then clicking the Replace button on the spell checker or double-clicking a suggested replacement inserted the replacement without deleting the misspelled word if selections were not persistent.
  • Windows XP: AceText crashed upon startup.

New in AceText 4.0.0 (Feb 12, 2021)

  • New features:
  • API: CollectionChanged() event that is fired whenever the active collection changes (a different collection being activated or an edit to the previously active collection) to enable other applications to show live updates of the active collection.
  • API: GetClipFromLinkID() and GetClipFromLinkString() to retrieve a clip or folder from the ID in an AceText URL.
  • API: GetWindowHandle() function that returns the handle that the application invoking AceText should pass to SetForegroundWindow().
  • API: HasParameters() function that indicates whether ExpandParameters() needs to be called and whether doing so will result in a dialog box prompting the user for parameters; makes AceText visible so that the calling application can call SetForegreoundWindow(GetWindowHandle()) before calling ExpandParameters().
  • API: LinkIDtoString() and LinkToClip() methods to produce URL pointing to a clip or folder.
  • Button on the main toolbar to toggle whether double-clicking sends the current clip to the previously active application, replacing the “send to active application upon double-click” checkbox on the Operation page in the Preferences.
  • Clip kind: secret. Clip’s text is not shown until a button is pressed after selecting the clip. Clip can be pasted using AcePaste without revealing the clip.
  • Clip kind: text with emphasis: plain text with bold, italic, underline, and various highlight colors.
  • Clip|Add Folder from Disk: Add a folder from disk to the collection, adding each file (that matches a certain file mask) in the folder as a clip.
  • Clip|Copy URL copies an URL in the form of acetext:clip/linkid/collection.atc/folder-label/clip-label that points to the current clip or clip folder; it can be pasted in the URL field or the contents of other clips.
  • Clip|Delete Duplicate Clips.
  • Clip|Extract Label: Split a clip once along a delimiter or use a regex to find the label in the clip’s text, using that text as the new label for the clip and optionally removing the regex match from the clip.
  • Clip|Generate Random Clip: generate a random character string, hexadecimal string, GUID, or MAC address.
  • ClipHistory: Auto Append now has an option to insert at the start instead of appending to the end.
  • ClipHistory: Command to reverse the order of the selected clips.
  • ClipHistory: Commands to move selected clips to the top or the bottom.
  • ClipHistory: Option to automatically split clips when they are captured.
  • Collection|Print: Choose a color palette for printing with syntax coloring or tick “black and white” to print without any colors.
  • Collection|Print: What to Print button to select which kinds of clips you want to print and which clip parts you want to print.
  • Collection|Sort Collection Tabs.
  • Convert|Characters: Convert between characters, character escapes, and character entities.
  • Convert|Quotes: Convert between straight quotes, smart quotes, and primes.
  • Convert|ROT-13.
  • Convert|Tabs: Convert between spaces and tabs.
  • Edit|Cut Clip to Clipboard.
  • Export clips or a collection into a comma-delimited (CSV) or tab-delimited (TSV) file.
  • Export multiple clips into a single plain text file, a new merged clip, onto the clipboard, one text file per clip folder, or one text file per clip.
  • Export to HTML.
  • Format|Comment, Uncomment, and Toggle Comment.
  • Format|Quote Block prepends each line with > or a custom quote character.
  • Format|Reverse Lines.
  • Format|Sort Alphabetically or Alphanumerically to sort text within a clip.
  • Forum: +1 button that adds a “me too” vote to an issue such as a bug report or feature request.
  • Forum: Ability to filter down to conversations one participated in.
  • Forum: Ability to show complete conversations while searching.
  • Forum: Email notification level that includes conversations that you gave a +1 in addition to conversations that you participated in.
  • Forum: Server side search to search through the message bodies of all conversations, including ones you haven’t viewed.
  • Merge clips: Option to copy the merged clip to the clipboard or to send it directly to another application (completing AcePaste or AceType), without adding it to the collection.
  • Merge clips: Option to insert the merged clip before or after the original clips instead of replacing them.
  • Merge clips: Option to trim leading and trailing line breaks and/or whitespace before merging the clips.
  • Merge clips: Order in which to merge the clips.
  • Options|Dark theme.
  • Options|Indent wrapped lines.
  • Options|Line Numbers.
  • Options|Persistent Selections to quickly toggle this without going through the Preferences.
  • Options|Visualize Line Breaks to quickly toggle this without going through the Preferences.
  • Options|Visualize Spaces to quickly toggle this without going through the Preferences.
  • Parameters can now be enabled or disabled separately for each clip.
  • Parameters: %CLIPURL% inserts the clip’s URL.
  • Parameters: %CLIPYEAR%, %CLIPMONTH%, %CLIPDAY%, %CLIPHOUR24%, %CLIPHOUR12%, %CLIPMIN%, and %CLIPSEC% to complement %CLIPDATE%, %CLIPTIME%, and %CLIPDATETIME%.
  • Parameters: %CURYEAR%, %CURMONTH%, %CURDAY%, %CURHOUR24%, %CURHOUR12%, %CURMIN%, and %CURSEC% to complement %CURDATE%, %CURTIME%, and %CURDATETIME%.
  • Per-monitor DPI scaling.
  • Preferences: Import and Export buttons.
  • Preferences|Appearance: Clip tree icons to differentiate folders, RSS feeds, and the various kinds of clips.
  • Preferences|Appearance: Medium toolbar icon size, in addition to Small and Large.
  • Preferences|Applications/Windows: Option to copy HTML or RTF to the clipboard when sending a clip with emphasis or syntax coloring.
  • Preferences|Applications/Windows: Syntax coloring scheme for clips pasted from this application.
  • Preferences|Applications: Default application settings to be used when none of the application or window settings apply.
  • Preferences|Cursors: Mouse pointer over selected text can now be configured separately so you can have an I beam over unselected text and an arrow over selected text like in Word or Wordpad.
  • Preferences|Hotkeys: AcePure hotkey for removing all clipboard formats other than plain text from the clipboard and optionally pasting the plain text on the clipboard directly into the active application, similar to what an application called PureText does.
  • Preferences|Hotkeys: If one or more Windows+Letter key combinations could not be registered as system-wide hotkeys, a button appears that offers to create a registry entry to disable those Windows+Letter key combinations in Windows Explorer.
  • Preferences|Operation: Option to automatically move a clips in the ClipHistory to the top of the ClipHistory when AceText sends that clip to an application.
  • Preferences|Operation: Option to make automatic capture move existing items to the top/bottom instead of adding duplicate items when the same text is copied to the clipboard again.
  • Preferences|Operation: Option to not add capture clips that only consists of spaces in the ClipHistory.
  • Preferences|Operation: Option to play a sound clip when capturing something into the ClipHistory.
  • Preferences|Operation: When automatically reopening collections, also automatically reselect the clips that were previously selected.
  • Preserve cursor position in each clip when switching between clips or collections.
  • Rectangular text blocks can now be copied and pasted between AceText and RAD Studio and Visual Studio and other editors that support the clipboard formats used by RAD Studio or Visual Studio.
  • Regex: .NET-style capturing group subtraction (group balancing).
  • Regex: h is a shorthand for horizontal whitespace.
  • Regex: K keeps the text matched so far out of the match results.
  • Regex: o{377} is now an octal escape and 337 is now an error.
  • Regex: R matches any line break, including Unicode line breaks, and treats CRLF pairs as indivisible.
  • Regex: v is now a shorthand for all vertical whitespace instead of a character escape for the vertical tab.
  • Regex: Branch reset groups.
  • Regex: Character class intersection [left&&[right]].
  • Regex: Regular expression recursion and subroutines.
  • Regex: Relative backreferences k<-1> and k<+1>.
  • Regex: Replacement string conditionals in the form of (?1matched:unmatched) and (?{name}matched:unmatched).
  • Regex: XML shorthand character classes.
  • Search: Free-spacing regular expressions option.
  • Search: Option not to preserve the search history when closing AceText, as that may contain sensitive information.
  • Search: Option to make search options persist when shutting down and restarting AceText.
  • Search: Regular expression syntax coloring.
  • Search: Select the parts of the clips to search through (folder label, clip label, AceType abbreviation, clip text, clip bytes, URL).
  • Search|Find Duplicate Clip.
  • Setup: Per-user installations that don’t require admin rights and that can create shortcuts and file associations and register AceText as a COM server.
  • Sort folders above, below or among clips. When sorting above or below, allow different sort methods for folders and clips.
  • Split Clips: Options to insert the split clips before or after the original clip instead of replacing the original clip.
  • Status bar: Length of the selected part of the clip’s text in characters.
  • Syntax coloring scheme selectable for each clip.
  • Text|Insert Date and Time: Insert a date and/or time stamp into the label or text of a clip.
  • Unlocking a collection with a password now gives the option to try unlocking all open collections with the same password.
  • URL: Folders can now have an associated URL.
  • Windows 7 and later: Right-clicking the taskbar button now lets you select any of the tabs in AceText.
  • Improvements:
  • AcePaste puts keyboard focus on the list of clips.
  • AceText Editor: Control labels were removed to save space; blank edit controls show their label on the inside.
  • AceType hotkey can now be used when AceText itself has keyboard focus to look up a clip by its AceType abbreviation; if Double-Click Sends Clip is active then the clip is sent to the most recently active application; otherwise the clip is not sent anywhere.
  • All Collections: Go to Collection item in the right-click menu.
  • API: ReplaceClip() now keeps the clip’s ID the same if you pass the ID of the clip being replaced as the ID of the new clip.
  • Clip tree now shows the first 250 characters of the clip’s contents instead of the first 50 characters if the clip does not have a label.
  • ClipHistory: Auto Append no longer appends the same text twice when an application like Excel opens and closees the clipboard multiple times when copying something to the clipboard.
  • ClipHistory: Automatic Capture toggle is now a toolbar button and menu item instead of a checkbox in the Preferences.
  • ClipHistory: If automatic capture was enabled when shutting down AceText then next time you start AceText the ClipHistory automatically captures the text that is already on the clipboard when AceText starts.
  • Collection|Set Password: Option to apply the password to all open collections that do not have a password yet and/or to all open collections that were unlocked wtih a password.
  • File paths longer than 260 characters are now supported everywhere except in Open and Save dialogs (which are handled by the Windows shell which does not support long paths).
  • Forum: Edited dates are now shown relative to the posted date if the time gap between now and the edited date is larger than the time gap between the posted date and the edited date.
  • Forum: Editing the summary of a message now also updates the subject of the conversation if it is the same as the old summary of the message.
  • Forum: Higher-resolution icon for the taskbar button for the forum window.
  • Forum: Reply dates are now shown relative to the starting date if the time gap between now and the reply is larger than the time gap between the reply and the start of the conversation.
  • Forum: Sort attachments by clicking column headers in the list.
  • Forum: Use live spelling only for messages that are being edited.
  • Help|Create Portable Installation now also offers to copy all the AceText collections that you have open.
  • Mouse pointer shown when scrolling the editor by clicking the mouse wheel now supports all resolutions between 100% and 400% display scaling.
  • Parameters: All Unicode word characters can now be used for custom %PARAMETERS%.
  • Parameters: Highlight built-in parameters, parameters that will be substituted with clips, and parameters that will be prompted for.
  • Preferences|Appearance: Fully customizable colors for the editors for the contents of clips and the for the Search and Replace boxes.
  • Preferences|Cursors: Custom mouse pointers now support sizes larger than 32x32 when DPI scaling is set to 200% or more, supporting DPI scaling up to 400%.
  • Preferences|Cursors: If you select a custom mouse pointer with inside and outside colors then those colors are also used for the mouse pointer that indicates scrolling when you click the editor with the mouse wheel.
  • Preferences|Operation: Disabling automatic capture now disables the ClipHistory checkboxes on the Application and Windows pages to make it more obvious that disabling automatic capture on the Operation page overrides the ClipHistory setting on the Application and Windows pages.
  • RSS: Read feeds from HTTPS URLs.
  • Search: Ctrl+F3 now invokes Find First; F2 is the new shortcut for Filter Clips.
  • Search: Filter toggle now applies to all tabs when the option “all clips in all collections” is active.
  • Search: Find Next button is now to the left of the Find Previous button for consistency with EditPad.
  • Search: Matches can now be highlighted in any part of the clip, including its label and URL.
  • Search: Renamed “dot matches newline” to “dot matches line breaks” because the dot recognizes all Unicode line breaks in AceText.
  • Search: Replace All can make replacements in folder labels and folder URLs if enabled in the search options.
  • Search: Replace All can prompt before it does anything if enabled in the search options.
  • Split Clips now has an item in the context menu of the AceText editor.
  • Toolbar icons now support up to 400% display scaling at all increments available in the basic display settings in Windows, allowing AceText to properly scale its toolbars on all PC and laptop displays on the market today.
  • Unlocking a collection with a password now incurs a noticeable delay due to a much stronger key derivation method that is resistant to brute force attacks.
  • URL: A windows file path can now be used as a clip’s or folder’s URL without needing a file:/// prefix.
  • URL: All clips can now have an associated URL, eliminating the need for a separate “web snippet” clip kind.

New in AceText 3.7.0 (Dec 22, 2020)

  • Bug fixes:
  • AceText collection files that have duplicate parameters in the parameter history can now be opened and unlocked without error; AceText will merge any duplicate histories.
  • ClipHistory: Dragging and dropping a “before and after” clip from a collection to the ClipHistory now converts the clip to a “plain text” clip as the ClipHistory cannot display “before and after” clips.
  • Pressing Enter while the clip tree has keyboard focus (to complete an AcePaste operation) produced a beep on some systems.

New in AceText 3.6.3 (Nov 16, 2020)

  • Improvement:
  • Automatically lock password-protected collections when the user locks their workstation.
  • Bug fix:
  • Recycle Bin: Delete and Move Clips buttons were not immediately enabled when selecting a clip when not using the AceText Tower.

New in AceText 3.6.2 (Jun 23, 2020)

  • Binary data from EditPad Pro was not captured or pasted correctly.
  • Recycle Bin: Delete button was not immediately enabled a clip.

New in AceText 3.6.0 (Jan 7, 2020)

  • Improvement:
  • Clip|Sort Collections: Indicate sort order of the collection when it is read-only.
  • Bug fixes:
  • All Collections: Closing or deleting a collection that had its tab immediately to the right of the All Collections tab activated the All Collections tab with the clips from the closed or deleted collection still visible; attempting to do anything with those clips would cause an Access Violation.
  • Help window no longer becomes unresponsive if AceText shows a modal dialog box while the help window is already visible.
  • Read-only collections could be modified via drag-and-drop.

New in AceText 3.5.2 (Jan 18, 2019)

  • Improvement:
  • RSS Reader: HTTPS URLs are now supported if the OpenSSL library is available; if not you now get an error saying the SSL library could not be loaded instead of an error saying the URL is invalid.
  • RSS Reader: RSS and Atom feeds that don't have an XML declaration can now be read.
  • Bug fixes:
  • All Collections: Clips and folders are now shown in the same order as in their original collections.
  • All Collections: Switching from the All Collections tab to a collection tab sometimes triggered an "invalid class typecast" error.

New in AceText 3.5.1 (May 10, 2018)

  • Improvements:
  • Collection tabs are now better proportioned on high DPI systems.
  • Windows 10: Installer now deals with Controlled Folder Access more efficiently when Windows Defender is operational and ignores it when Windows Defender is not operational, ensuring a smoother installation on Windows 10 1709 (Fall Creators Update) and 1803 (April 2018 Update).

New in AceText 3.5.0 (May 10, 2018)

  • Improvements:
  • Preferences|Hotkeys: Clicking OK shows an error message without closing the dialog if certain hotkeys could not be registered.
  • Preferences|Hotkeys: The default hotkeys have changed, because the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update reserves several Windows+Control+letter key combinations for the operating system.
  • Spell checker: Learned words that are not entirely lowercase are now case sensitive just like words in the main dictionary.
  • Windows 10: Installer adds AceText as an allowed application to Controlled Folder Access in Windows Defender in the Fall Creators Update.
  • Windows 10: Installer can now create the desktop shortcut and install the sample collections into the default folder when Controlled Folder Access is enabled by temporarily adding itself to the list of allowed applications.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Clip|New Folder: Creating a new folder by pressing the Shift+F4 keyboard shortcut while the AceText Editor is invisible now makes it visible instead of showing an error that it cannot focus an invisible window.
  • Seaching for regular expressions sometimes triggered access violation errors.
  • Spell checker: Automatic suggestions for a misspelled word that is all lowercase now preserve the case the suggested word has in the dictionary instead of making it lowercase.
  • Spell checker: Learned replacements that only change the case of a word no longer highlight occurrences of the word with the corrected case as misspelled.

New in AceText 3.4.2 (Jul 21, 2017)

  • Bug fixes:
  • The ellipsis character U+2026 was changed into a line break when AceText copied an entire clip to the clipboard and you pasted into an application that's not from Just Great Software.
  • The splitter bar on the AceText Tower moved a little upwards each time you shut down and restarted AceText, leaving a little less space for the list of collections (and equally more for the clip tree).

New in AceText 3.4.1 (May 10, 2017)

  • Improvement:
  • Searching and replacing all matches in a single clip now adds one undo item for the entire search-and-replace instead of adding separate undo items for all replacements.
  • Bug fix:
  • Searching and replacing with a regex in a single clip or searching and replacing with anything across all clips leaked memory; if a large number of replacements had to be made in a large clip this could cause AceText to exhaust all available memory.

New in AceText 3.4.0 (Apr 11, 2017)

  • New features:
  • Help|News & Updates: New version announcements and other news about AceText and optionally other Just Great Software products can now be shown automatically or upon request.
  • RegexMagic can now be launched from the Search Options menu in AceText.
  • Improvements:
  • Portable installs of AceText can now integrate with portable installs of RegexBuddy.
  • RegexBuddy command sends the active clip as a sample to RegexBuddy.

New in AceText 3.3.1 (Feb 28, 2017)

  • Improvement:
  • Proxy password is now encrypted when stored in the .ini file.
  • Bug fix:
  • Editing a clip's label with the shift key held down (to enter capital letters) triggered a harmless but annoying access violation error if the folder or collection containing the clip was sorted by clip labels and the edit changed the position of the clip.

New in AceText 3.3.0 (Oct 26, 2016)

  • Improvements:
  • About box and demo messages now scale on systems using 200% or more display scaling.
  • AceText now waits for all modifier keys on the keyboard to be released before sending clips to other applications to avoid the possibility of releasing those keys while AceText is simulating its keystrokes.
  • Toolbar icons are now doubled up in size on systems using 200% or more display scaling making the small icons suitable for 200% display scaling and the large ones for 300% scaling.
  • Bug fixes:
  • ClipHistory: Clip tree font set in the Preferences is now also used for the list of clips in the ClipHistory.
  • Spell: Learned words are now saved much faster, removing the long delay when changing the spell check language or when switching to another application after learning a new word if thousands of words had already been learned.
  • Spell: Learned words with characters that are not supported by the system code page are now saved correctly.
  • Tower: Clip tree font set in the Preferences is now also used for the list of collections.

New in AceText 3.2.3 (Aug 24, 2016)

  • Bug fixes:
  • ClipHistory: Filtering clips shows clips that do not match the filter instead of those that do match the filter (3.2.1 and 3.2.2 only).
  • Searching and replacing by pressing the Ctrl+Alt+F3 keyboard shortcut while the AceText Tower had keyboard focus caused AceText to get stuck in an infinite loop. Now this will activate the AceText Editor if it is visible and correctly perform the search-and-replace. It will do nothing if the AceText Editor is not visible.

New in AceText 3.2.2 (Aug 24, 2016)

  • Bug fix:
  • A clean install of AceText 3.2.1 incorrectly initialized its default preferences, causing errors when opening the Preferences dialog and when trying to OK the Preferences dialog.

New in AceText 3.2.1 (Aug 24, 2016)

  • Improvement:
  • Preferences|Hotkeys: Default AceType hotkey is now Windows+Control+T. The previous default Windows+A no longer works on Windows 10 as it is reserved by the operating system to open the Action Center.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Commands in the Clip menu that should be disabled when the Clipboard tab is active could still be accessed via their keyboard shortcuts, leading to errors such as Invalid Class Typecast.
  • Preferences|Applications/Windows: Configuring an application and turning on the option to simulate copy and paste commands with key combinations that include the Ctrl or Alt keys could cause the Ctrl or Alt key to remain virtually stuck after AceText sent the key combination until you pressed Ctrl or Alt on the keyboard.
  • Scrolling position in the list or tree of clips was not maintained when deleting clips while clips are filtered.
  • Windows 10: Closing AceText when it is not maximized and with the left or top edge of the window touching the left or top edge of the desktop caused it to start up slightly wider or taller next time.

New in AceText 3.2.0 (Nov 6, 2015)

  • Improvement:
  • Windows 10: Preserved window position now allows the visible portion of the window border to sit directly against the edge of the screen.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Preferences|Appearance: URL button did not change the color of highlighted email addresses.
  • Scrolling position in the list or tree of clips was not maintained when deleting clips.
  • Windows 10: Using AcePaste or AceType with or sending clips directly to Windows Store applications such as the Edge browser was unreliable.

New in AceText 3.1.6 (Jul 30, 2015)

  • Portable installs of AceText 3.1.3 thorugh 3.1.5 did not correctly load the paths to the ClipHistory and Recycle Bin causing 3.1.3 and 3.1.4 to silently revert to the default paths and 3.1.5 to falsely complain the drive for the ClipHistory and RecycleBin does not exist.

New in AceText 3.1.5 (Jul 30, 2015)

  • Improvements:
  • Installer no longer asks to accept the license agreement if you already have AceText 3.x.x installed.
  • Installer now puts a single shortcut directly in the Start menu which better fits the Start menu on Windows 10.
  • Preferences|Files: If the drive that the ClipHistory preference points to does not exist when starting AceText, ask the user whether to retry or to revert to a default collection instead of silently reverting to a default collection.
  • Preferences|Files: Reopen AceText Collections when restarting AceText now asks whether to retry or start without the missing collections if any collections are remembered on drives that are not available, giving you a chance to connect those drives first.
  • Preferences|Files: Selecting a collection that is open in AceText as the new ClipHistory or Recycle Bin now shows a clear message that you have to close the collection first instead of a cryptic "access denied" error.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Disable AcePaste and AceType hotkeys while the Substitute Parameters dialog is being shown.
  • Forum: Highlighting search matches in AceText itself also highlights them on the forum.
  • Search: Incremental Search using regular expressions pops up error messages if the regular expression is (temporarily) invalid while attempting to enter it.
  • Spell check: Romanian dictionaries did not show suggestions.
  • Split Clip: When the dialog for specifying the delimiter for splitting clips is first shown, the OK button was disabled and the edit controls were enabled, instead of the other way around.
  • Switching from a "binary data" clip to a clip folder did not hide the hexadecimal editor.

New in AceText 3.1.4 (Oct 2, 2014)

  • Improvements:
  • Forum: Right-click menus.
  • Open and save dialogs now remember the most recently used folder and default to the folder containing the active collection, if any.
  • Preferences, Files: "Try to obtain write access when activating a read-only collection" now also takes effect when switching to AceText from another application, in addition to when switching collections within AceText.
  • URLs: file: URLs relative to the folder that the .atc file is stored in.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Forum: Starting AceText minimized (e.g. when configuring AceText to start when Windows starts) caused the forum window to also be minimized when connecting to the forum.
  • Search: Whole words only option was ignored when not using a regular expression.
  • Share: Uploading a clip collection failed if the description contained line breaks.

New in AceText 3.1.3 (Jan 7, 2014)

  • Improvements:
  • Preferences|Files: If the ClipHistory or Recycle Bin file points to a drive that does not exist when starting AceText then that file is reverted to its default location in the My Documents folder; previously AceText would keep the invalid path which would silently prevent it from saving the ClipHistory or Recycle Bin until you tried to close AceText.
  • Tab characters in clips are now sent as simulated Tab key presses instead of as simulated keyboard characters when AceText is configured to send clips by simulating keystrokes to particular windows or applications.
  • The difference is that if the control that receives the keystrokes does not support tabs then the Tab key moves focus to the next control, while a simulated tab character is ignored. This allows you to use AcePaste or AceType to populate multiple controls by sending a clip that uses tabs to delimit the text for each controls.
  • Tabs: Double-clicking the blank space to the right of the last tab now adds a new blank collection tab as the rightmost tab.
  • Bug fixes:
  • AceEdit: Pressing the AceEdit hotkey while using another application, editing the contents of the Clipboard tab, and then switching back to the other application by simply clicking on it did not automatically paste the edited text into the other application. Explicitly finishing the edit by pressing the AceEdit hotkey after editing the Clipboard tab did work.
  • All Collections: If the same clip is selected on the All Collections tab and the tab of the collection that contains the clip then editing the clip on one of those tabs does not automatically update its view on the other tab.
  • Cut and Copy commands did not cut and copy the active line when no text is selected in AceText 3.1.2 as they do in all other versions of AceText.
  • Edit|Copy Clip to Clipboard was disabled when the active item is a folder.
  • Forum continued to use the old proxy settings until you closed the forum window if you changed the proxy settings after having successfully connected to the forum.
  • Forum: Feeds button for preparing RSS feeds to follow the forum was missing.
  • Help|Share Collections: Uploading a collection resulted in a server error because AceText did not correctly upload the collection.
  • RSS Feed Writer: Strip control characters not allowed in XML files.
  • Search: Replace buttons were not disabled after finding a search match in a read-only collection; clicking them caused an access violation.

New in AceText 3.1.2 (May 21, 2013)

  • Improvements:
  • AceEdit now works more reliably with applications such as Firefox by giving them more time to copy the selected text to the clipboard.
  • Forum: HTTP proxy server support extended with more authentication methods.
  • Forum: SOCKS proxy server support.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Clipboard: Replace All ignored the Regular Expression search option, searching for the regex as if it were plain text.
  • Delete Blank Lines and Consolidate Blank lines items were missing from the menu under the Reformat Text button on the toolbar; they were present in the menu under the Format item in the main menu.
  • Delete key should delete clips when the list of clips in the ClipHistory has keyboard focus, just as it does when the clip tree in other collections has keyboard focus.
  • Keyboard: Ctrl+Y key combinations were changed in AceText 3, but the help file was not updated to reflect this. Ctrl+Y = redo, Ctrl+Alt+Y = delete line, and Shift+Ctrl+Alt+Y = duplicate line.
  • Search: Loop Automatically and All Clips in All Collections search options did not work together correctly.

New in AceText 3.1.1 (Oct 18, 2012)

  • Improvement:
  • 64-bit: Indicate x86, x64, or WOW64 in the About box to indicate whether you're running the 32-bit version on 32-bit Windows, the 64-bit version on 64-bit Windows, or the 32-bit version on 64-bit Windows.
  • Bug fixes:
  • AceText 3.1.0 failed to send Copy and Paste commands to applications that were not configured in the Applications or Windows preferences if the active keyboard layout includes the AltGr key.
  • Clipboard: Switching to the Clipboard tag triggered an access violation if the Search box was not blank (3.1.0 only).
  • Collection|Set Password should be disabled if the collection is read-only.
  • Preferences|Files: Turning on "open collections in read-only mode" made it impossible to turn off read-only mode, making all collections permanently read-only until this option was turned off (3.1.0 only).
  • Uninstall: The uninstaller is placed into AceText's folder instead of the Windows folder starting with AceText 3.1.0. Upgrading from a previous version of AceText to AceText 3.1.0 deleted the uninstaller from the Windows folder, even when other applications still need it. The installer for AceText 3.1.1 will only do so if no other applications still need it. To uninstall other applications, copy the uninstaller from AceText's folder into the Windows folder.

New in AceText 3.1.0 (Oct 13, 2012)

  • Improvements:
  • AceText now uses a completely new method to simulate keystrokes and copy/paste commands when sending clips to other applications. The new method is 100% reliable with all applications. Keystrokes are sent immediately rather than after you've released any modifier keys. If you keep a modifier key depressed (e.g. when using Ctrl+Enter or the AcePaste hotkey to send a clip), you'll have to release and repress it for it to take effect again.
  • Collection|Save As can now save collections that are locked with a password without having to unlock them first.
  • Forum: The button to delete messages is now labeled Cancel for messages that are being edited, to make it more obvious that this button deletes the edited message, but leaves the original message in place.
  • Preferences|Hotkeys: The default hotkeys have changed, because Windows 8 reserves nearly all Windows+letter key combinations for the operating system.
  • Preferences|Operation: Extracting the page title from the HTML on the clipboard and using it as the clip's label when HTML is copied to the clipboard by a web browser and captured into the ClipHistory is now optional; if on, the HTML title is only used when the HTML includes a source URL.
  • Windows 8: Do not use a custom color gradient for the toolbar, to better fit with the flat style of Windows 8.
  • Windows 8: Uninstall shortcut is no longer pinned to the start screen by the installer (but it won't unpin any shortcuts that were previously pinned).
  • Bug fixes:
  • Collection|Lock Collection: Locking a collection that has unsaved changes when the option to automatically save collections is off causes AceText to fail to save the collection when you say Yes to the prompt to save when shutting down AceText.
  • Forum: Search box did not work.
  • Installer: License key was not installed when installing AceText 3.0.x silently.
  • Preferences|Appearance: Editor controls were blank or black when the text layout was monospaced.
  • Preferences|Appearance: The "Text" color was not actually applied to editor, resulting in black text on top of whichever background color you specified.
  • Preferences|Windows: Windows were not identified by their class names by the 64-bit edition of AceText causing AcePaste etc. to use the default settings instead of the settings for the target window.
  • Search-and-replace commands should be disabled for read-only collections.
  • Text|Save Text did not use the encoding chosen in the dialog box (3.0.x only).

New in AceText 3.0.1 (Jan 3, 2012)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Clipboard: When the Find First/Next/Previous commands find a search match, AceText did not scroll the contents of the Clipboard tab to put the search match in view
  • Closing AceText with the X button did not remove AceText's taskbar button if a modal dialog box had been shown (3.0.0 only)
  • Forum: Links to AceText forum messages were not highlighted as such and were not handled by AceText when such a URL was invoked
  • Help: Disabled context-sensitive help in the 64-bit version of AceText if Internet Explorer 9 is installed. IE 9 causes all 64-bit applications that use a .chm file for context-sensitive help to crash when a link in the help file is clicked

New in AceText 3.0.0 (Jan 3, 2012)

  • New features:
  • ClipHistory: Archive cliphistory into a new .atc file, starting with a blank ClipHistory, optionally opening the archived collection
  • Collection|Lock Collection: Lock a password-protected collection without closing it
  • Editor: Ctrl+Left Shift and Ctrl+Right Shift toggle the direction of the text to left-to-right or right-to-left when a keyboard for a right-to-left language is installed (though not necessarily active)
  • Format|Consolidate Blank Lines: multiple blank lines are replaced by a single blank line
  • Format|Delete Blank Lines
  • Forum that can be accessed from within AceText via the Help menu
  • Options|Right-to-Left: Toggle between left-to-right and right-to-left writing
  • Preferences, Appearance: Color of the clip tree can now be configured
  • Preferences, Appearance: Instead of selecting a font for text and binary clips, you can now select a complete text layout which includes font, reading order, cursor movement, cursor appearance, and character spacing
  • Preferences, Hotkeys: Option for the hotkey to capture text on the clipboard to send a copy command to the active application first, so text can be captured in one go with Windows+C instead of Ctrl+C Windows+C
  • Preferences, Hotkeys: Option to switch to ClipHistory when activating AcePaste
  • Should switch back to the previously active collection when AcePaste is done
  • Preferences, Operation: Option for ClipHistory to capture new clips at the bottom instead of at the top
  • Preferences, Operation: Option to automatically make all collections read-only when closing AceText (but keeping it active in the background)
  • Preferences, Operation: Option to automatically make all collections read-only when hiding the AceText Editor (i.e. using the Tower only)
  • Preferences, Operation: Option to automatically re-lock password-protected collections after the collection hasn't been accessed for a certain number of minutes
  • Preferences, Operation: Option to automatically try to get read-write access when activating a read-only collection
  • Preferences, Operation: Option to open the file in its default application when double-clicking a clip that consists of nothing but a file name
  • Preferences, Tabs: Configure the tabs like in EditPad, with options to put the tabs at the top or bottom, to show an X button, for Ctrl+Tab order, and the tab colors
  • URLs: Open URL in Browser command in the AceText Tower context menu for opening the URL associated with a "web snippet" clip
  • Improvements:
  • Auto save now paces itself to try and do most saving while AceText is idle in the background so AceText doesn't become unresponsive too often when working with multiple large collections
  • ClipHistory: When a file or list of files is copied to the clipboard in Windows Explorer, add the list of files as a clip to the ClipHistory
  • ClipHistory: When HTML is copied to the clipboard by a web browser and the text is captured into a clip in AceText's ClipHistory, extract the page title from the HTML on the clipboard and use it as the clip's label
  • Escape key should focus the previously active application when not using AcePaste or AceType
  • Flash the AceText icon next to the system clock whenever AceText copies something to the clipboard
  • Installer: Create portable installation without admin rights
  • Search: Highlighting search matches no longer disables live spelling
  • Search: When searching through all clips, folder labels are now searched through as well so folders can be found
  • Shut Down AceText item is now at the bottom of the right-click menu of AceText's icon next to the system clock for consistency with other Windows applications
  • Tabs of modified collections are now shown in red when automatic save is disabled; locked collections are shown in yellow
  • Unicode: Full Unicode application
  • Vista & 7: AceText now scales itself instead of letting Windows handle the scaling when the font size in Windows has been increased by more than 125% (i.e. the display resolution is more than 120 DPI) resulting in a much crisper appearance of AceText

New in AceText 2.2.4 (Jan 3, 2012)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Printouts were sometimes missing lines across page boundaries depending on whether you chose to print headers and/or footers
  • Right-clicking on collection tabs did not show the context menu specific to the tab but instead showed AceText's main context menu (2.2.3 only)
  • Searching backwards did not always work correctly

New in AceText 2.2.3 (Jul 15, 2011)

  • Occasionally keyboard keys would be virtually stuck after AceText sent a key combination to another application; e.g. after sending Ctrl+V to make another application paste, keys you pressed after that would occasionally be interpreted as if you were holding down Ctrl. This problem only occurred in version 2.2.2.
  • Switching from AceText to another application while downloading spell check dictionaries caused a harmless access violation error.

New in AceText 2.2.1 (Jun 17, 2010)

  • Improvements:
  • AceText now waits for all modifier keys to be released before sending keystrokes to another application. This avoids problems like Ctrl+Enter being pressed to paste a clip and Ctrl being released while AceText is sending the Ctrl+V key to the target application, resulting in a V typed in the target application rather than a paste command being executed.
  • When an application rapidly and repeatedly copies and pastes text (e.g. when running a macro in a text editor that copies and pastes thousands of times) AceText no longer attempts to capture all that text into the ClipHistory. Because the Windows clipboard does not allow two applications to access it at the same time, the other application's copy/paste actions may fail if AceText attempts to access the clipboard during its copy/paste sequence.
  • Bug fixes:
  • ClipHistory: Auto Append would append multiple copies of text copied by applications that violate Microsoft's rules for the Windows clipboard by opening and closing the clipboard multiple times for a single copy operation (including Adobe Acrobat and Microsoft's own Excel).
  • If AceText remembered that a collection tab was previously active and the AceText Tower was not visible, then the collection would appear with a blank clip tree until you switched to another tab in AceText. This bug only occurred in version 2.2.0. Older versions did not remember the active tab.

New in AceText 2.2.0 (Jun 1, 2010)

  • New features:
  • Preferences, Applications: Default clip collection to be used when activating AceText from a particular application.
  • Preferences, Windows: Allow AceText's behavior to be configured per window, with the ability to use regular expressions to identify windows. This allows different configurations for different parts or states of applications. It also allows 64-bit applications and applications running as administrator to be configured. Window configurations take precedence over application configurations.
  • Improvements:
  • AceText now remembers which tab was active when you shut down and restart AceText
  • Empty clips can now be copied and pasted.
  • Windows Vista & 7: Use AddClipboardFormatListener and WM_CLIPBOARDUPDATE for increased reliability of the ClipHistory.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Making a modified collection read-only caused it to be reloaded the next time you switched to it even if it hadn't been modified on disk.
  • The parameter history was duplicated whenever a read-only collection was reloaded.
  • Using AcePaste to paste a before and after clip replaced the selected text instead of surrounding the selected text if the target application was 64-bit or running as administrator.

New in AceText 2.1.8 (Apr 16, 2010)

  • Improvements:
  • Double-clicking a URL to open it in a browser now cancels AcePaste, AceType, and AceEdit just like closing AceText's window or pressing Escape does.
  • Preferences, Applications - The process name labels now indicate that AceText cannot access a process name because it is running as administrator (and AceText is not) or it is a 64-bit process (which AceText is not) instead of going blank.
  • Search - Ctrl+F focuses the search box, or starts the search if it already has focus.
  • Spell check - Improved the default position of the spell check dialog when AceText is on the right hand monitor on a dual monitor system.
  • Windows Vista & 7 - Vista-style open and save dialog boxes.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Clip, New - Pressing F4 while the AceText Editor is hidden now makes the editor visible instead of showing an error.
  • Collection, Open - AceText no longer keeps a lock on files that it fails to load (e.g. because the file is not a valid AceText collection file).
  • Deleting a clip should select the next clip instead of the first clip.
  • Moving multiple clips with Shift+Ctrl+Up/Down sometimes caused a harmless access violation.
  • Renaming a clip collection now properly renames the file instead of creating a copy under the new name.
  • Spell check - Switching to another application while AceText was showing its spell check dialog and then back to AceText caused the dialog to end up behind AceText's main window.

New in AceText 2.1.7 (Apr 16, 2010)

  • Improvements:
  • Search - Pressing Enter when the search box has keyboard focus finds the next search match.
  • Word wrap - Allow text to be wrapped after any ideograph, even if there is no whitespace.
  • Bug fixes:
  • AceText's icon next to the system clock now reappears automatically when Windows Explorer (explorer.exe) crashes or is forcibly terminated and then restarted.
  • ClipHistory - AceText lost its ClipHistory if it was password-protected, and AceText was shut down without unlocking the ClipHistory.
  • ClipHistory - AceText sometimes caused applications that violate Microsoft's rules for the Windows clipboard by opening and closing the clipboard multiple times for a single copy operation (including Adobe Reader and Microsoft's own Excel) to show error messages about being unable to open or clear the clipboard.
  • Clip|Move Up - In an unsorted collection, moving a clip or folder upward when it is the first child in a folder did not make the clip a sibling of its parent folder as it should but placed it as the last child into the sibling folder of the parent folder.
  • Collection|Save triggered an Invalid Class Typecast error when the Clipboard or Recycle Bin tab was active.
  • Double-clicking file - URLs did not always open the file.
  • Search - Incremental search using the search box on the AceText Tower either focused the AceText Editor after each keystroke, or caused an error if the AceText Editor wasn't visible.

New in AceText 2.1.6 (Mar 27, 2009)

  • Improved drag-and-drop;
  • improved compatibility with applications that don't use the clipboard correctly

New in AceText 2.1.1 (Apr 19, 2007)

  • Improved Windows Vista compatibility

New in AceText 2.1.0 (Jan 10, 2007)

  • AceText is now fully compatible with Windows Vista

New in AceText 2.0.2 (Jul 24, 2006)

  • Minor fixes and enhancements.

New in AceText 2.0.0 (Jun 21, 2006)

  • Minor fixes and enhancements
  • additional spell check languages