Textify Changelog

What's new in Textify 1.10.4

Sep 1, 2023
  • Icons are now reloaded on DPI change to prevent blurry icons.
  • Added Swedish translation by Sopor.

New in Textify 1.10.3 (Jul 27, 2022)

  • Fixed detection of Firefox as a default browser.
  • Added detection of Brave as a default browser.
  • The default browser, not the IE widget, is now used if default browser detection fails.
  • Added the text_box_non_resizable configuration option.
  • Fixed focus stealing on startup if starting hidden.
  • Added Armenian localization by R1ch4rd.
  • Added German localization by uDEV2019.

New in Textify 1.10.2 (Jun 3, 2022)

  • Added the font_name, font_size configuration options.
  • Fixed a duplicate text bug.
  • Minor fixes to translations.

New in Textify 1.10.1 (May 30, 2022)

  • Fixed web buttons to work with a selection of a single character.
  • Added the hide_wnd_on_startup configuration.
  • Added a workaround for the lack of UI Automation support in Firefox on Windows 7.

New in Textify 1.10 (May 29, 2022)

  • Implemented workarounds to UI Automation limitations and bugs for better text capturing.
  • Made the text dialog resizable and editable.
  • Added support for icon paths with environment variables.
  • Added support for icon paths to executable files with optional icon indexes.

New in Textify 1.9 (May 21, 2022)

  • Textify now uses the UI Automation API by default.
  • Added the icon_size, buttons_per_row options for web buttons.
  • Added an exit button to the main window.

New in Textify 1.8.10 (Dec 11, 2021)

  • Added Arabic localization by Abu Rehaam.
  • Added Russian localization by AlexYar.

New in Textify 1.8.9 (Dec 10, 2021)

  • Added optional accelerator key configuration (e.g. key=q) to web buttons.
  • Made icons for web buttons optional.
  • Added Italian localization by Vittorio.

New in Textify 1.8.8 (Nov 30, 2021)

  • Added Chinese (Simplified) localization by ZetaSp.
  • Added French localization by Franck-DUBUS.

New in Textify 1.8.6 (Oct 9, 2021)

  • Hotfix: forward the mouse events to the excluded programs instead of swallowing them.

New in Textify 1.8.4 (Sep 17, 2021)

  • Added tooltips for web buttons.
  • Restored support for Windows XP and Windows Vista.

New in Textify 1.8.3 (Aug 2, 2021)

  • Added support for Edge as the default browser for web buttons.
  • Changed default installation folder to %LocalAppData%Programs.
  • The Textify binaries are now digitally signed.

New in Textify 1.8.2 (Feb 7, 2020)

  • Remove more Unicode control characters when the unicode_spaces_to_ascii option is enabled.
  • Setup: don't override ini file on an auto update (or a quiet update).

New in Textify 1.8.1 (Feb 1, 2020)

  • Added the unicode_spaces_to_ascii option to remove invisible Unicode symbols and replace Unicode spaces with the regular space.
  • Restored support for Windows XP.

New in Textify 1.8 (Nov 7, 2019)

  • Improve web buttons to support launching the default browser in a popup, and other web button improvements.
  • Setup: backup old ini file on update.
  • Update checker.

New in Textify 1.7 (Oct 27, 2019)

  • In-app configuration file editor.
  • Improved per-monitor DPI handling.
  • If no text was found, Textify now tries the parent element until something is found. This fixes querying Chrome tab titles.

New in Textify 1.6.2 (Oct 5, 2017)

  • Removed the limitation to have only URLs starting with http(s).
  • It's possible now to put a program name at "url". Parameters can be specified with the "parameters" field.
  • Setup will now overwrite the existing settings only when doing a major update.

New in Textify 1.6 (Oct 2, 2017)

  • Implemented the so-called Web Buttons. You can now quickly launch web services such as Google Translate.
  • Minor fixes.

New in Textify 1.5.1 (May 12, 2017)

  • Added an option to hide the tray icon in the ini file.
  • Minor improvements.

New in Textify 1.5 (Nov 28, 2016)

  • Automatic text copy. You can enable it by setting auto_copy_selection=1 in the ini file of Textify.
  • Change text selection by using the Tab key.