Press Release for 20 Nov 2013
Stairways Software releases Keyboard Maestro 6.3.1
Perth, Western Australia - 20 November 2013 - Stairways Software Pty Ltd is pleased to announce Keyboard Maestro 6.3.1, the new version of its powerful productivity enhancer for Mac OS X.
Version 6.3.1 includes fixes for a number of minor issues and bugs.
Changes for 6.3.1
- Allow more than one seperator in Prompt For User Input menus.
- Fixed clipboard garbage text that affected some applications.
- Fixed Set Find Pasteboard action.
- Fixed a potential crash when executing scripts.
- Fixed a crash in the editor if a macro contained only an Execute This Macro action.
- Fixed a potential crash writing clipboard strings.
- Fixed a potential crash if getting the icon of a file failed.
Changes for 6.3
- Added Typed String trigger "Diacriticals do not matter" option.
- Add Typed String Trigger "regular expression match".
- Add Typed String Trigger "only after word break" option.
- Typed String simulates deletes before displaying the conflict palette.
- Added TypedStringClearTime private preference (default 5 seconds).
- Added TypedStringClearWithShiftSpace private preference (default on).
- Typed String triggers do not clear the Typed String buffers (simulated characters do).
- Added Clear Typed String Buffer action
- Added Crash Reporter.
- Added Substrings In collection.
- Merged Lines In collections.
- Added Lines In Named Clipboard collection.
- Added %ActionResult% token.
- Removed Press Button Result, Mouse Click Result, Select Menu Result variables.
- Added %Trigger%, %TriggerBase%, %TriggerValue% tokens.
- Removed USB Device Name, Mounted Volume Name variables.
- Added delay before and after dragging in the drag mouse action.
- Vastly improved performance of actions that write named clipboard entries.
- Changed various informative alert sheets to use notifications instead.
- Highlight errors in calculations in more places.
- Added option to Fix Finder Selection Bug in appropriate collections and actions.
- Added support for separators (-) in Prompt For User Input popup menus.
- Added support for code__display formatted menu items in Prompt For User Input popup menus.
- Use minus sign (-) instead of no entry sign (\) for Delete.
- Periodically trim log files.
- Added URL for keyboardmaestro://m=Activate%20Application%20Switcher
- Added URL for keyboardmaestro://q=Activate
- Added URL for keyboardmaestro://g=All%20Macros/q=Activate
- Added URL for keyboardmaestro://a=Execute
- Added URL for keyboardmaestro://c=All%20Actions/a=Execute
- Hold Command key while pasting to toggle Close On Action in Clipboard Switchers.
- Added support for displaying time saved in Days, Months or Years.
- Added SYSTEMVOLUME() function.
- Only force setting the Find Pasteboard if it actually changes value.
- Added support for option-arrow keys in switcher grid view.
- Allow more use of shortcut letters in switchers with non-English keyboards.
- Added warning to Status Menu if Accessibility is disabled for Engine.
- Reduced apparent Energy impact by reducing polling for clipboard changed.
- Added getall option to gethotkeys AppleScript engine command.
Bug fixes for 6.3
- Use a more modern method to simulate hardware keys which should resolve the Volume Control action issues.
- Wireless triggers would fire even if the macro was disabled or inactive.
- Save empty calculations even though they are invalid.
- Fixed Substring action when source and dest are different named clipboards.
- Fixed an issue with MIDI notes and non-zero channels.
- Removed Text Suite from AppleScript dictionary.
- Mouse Drag locked the engine up while dragging.
- Fixed potential crash when when Open/Close CDROM action fails.
- Screen image highlighting worked only on one screen in Mavericks.
- Fixed SCREEN(Internal,coord) and SCREEN(External,coord).
Keyboard Maestro 6.x requires Mac OS X 10.8 or greater.
Keyboard Maestro is engineered by Stairways Software Pty Ltd and distributed by FastSpring. Keyboard Maestro is licensed on a per user basis, and an individual user can use it on five Macs.
New customers can purchase Keyboard Maestro from <http://purchase.keyboardmaestro.com/> for US$36. Customers with five or more users should contact us for a volume discount quote.
Customers who purchased Keyboard Maestro directly from us after October 1, 2012 have been issued a free upgrade to Keyboard Maestro 6. If you have not received your free license, you can find your free license upgrade at <http://enquiry.stairways.com/>.
Customers who purchased any version of Keyboard Maestro directly from us prior to October 2012 can upgrade to Keyboard Maestro 6 for US$25. If you have not received your instructions on how to upgrade, you can find details by looking up your Keyboard_Maestro license at <http://enquiry.stairways.com/>.
Keyboard Maestro 6 is not available from the Mac App Store and probably never will be, but customers who purchased Keyboard Maestro 5 on the Mac App Store can convert their license to a direct license by option clicking the "Mac App Version" text in the Keyboard Maestro about box and following the instructions and will then be eligible for a paid upgrade to version 6 for US$25.
A fully-functional unlicensed trial version of Keyboard Maestro can be downloaded from <http://download.keyboardmaestro.com/>.
For sales enquires, volume purchases, customer service, technical support, or to contact project management, our current contact information is listed at <http://contact.stairways.com/>.
Extensive online documentation on Keyboard Maestro can be found at <http://documentation.keyboardmaestro.com/>.
A brief taste of Keyboard Maestro in action can be found at <http://screenshots.keyboardmaestro.com/>.
For more information about anything to do with Keyboard Maestro visit <http://www.keyboardmaestro.com/>.
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