News

Howdy folks, we’re just poking our heads over the parapet to bring you news that TypeIt4Me 5.2 is out today. This update is free if you paid for a full or upgraded licence after 1 January 2010 – so if you’ve already given us some of your hard earned dosh at some point in the last 18 months, you’re good to go. Otherwise you’ll need to stump up a modest US$8.99 if you want to benefit from the latest features. Can’t say fairer than that, can we?

New or changed features in TypeIt4Me 5.2:

• We’ve added a spiffy new Date / Time Math function that will expand a date abbreviation of your choosing to a calculated-on-the-fly date and / or time in the future. Or in the past, for that matter… It’s better than a flux capacitor, really. Great Scott!
• There’s a new way to issue a SHIFT-TAB (which can move the cursor to a cell to the left in a table or to a previous field in a form).
• As requested by one of our customers, we’ve introduced another ‘hidden’ option. It tells TypeIt4Me not to use just the first four characters of what you’ve copied to the clipboard as a default suggestion when proposing an abbreviation in Add a Clipping:
  defaults write com.typeit4me.TypeIt4MeMenu shortenProposedAbb -bool NO
  

  For now, the above command needs to be copied and pasted – or typed – in Terminal as the option is not currently included in TypeIt4Me’s preferences screen.  If this feature proves popular we will look into making it more user friendly in a future release. If you try it and decide you don’t like it, you can revert to normal by firing up Terminal again and entering the following line:
  defaults write com.typeit4me.TypeIt4MeMenu shortenProposedAbb -bool YES

Select Check for updates from the TypeIt4Me menu. If you purchased TypeIt4Me from the Mac App Store, the new version will show up in your updates list in a week or so, once Apple approves it.

New or changed features:

• Added Show Duplicates.
• Added warning when pasting clippings (cmd-v) would create duplicate(s).
• In Edit Clippings window, cmd-F now moves keyboard focus to search field, cmd-L to clippings list.
• Periodic file save now only happens if there are unsaved changes.
• The position of the vertical split bar in Edit Clippings window is saved and restored.
• Added the following 3 options, each requested by a single user:
  - defaults write com.typeit4me.TypeIt4MeMenu noFadeEffectOnMainWindow -bool YES
  - defaults write com.typeit4me.TypeIt4MeMenu dontProposeContentsOfPasteboard -bool YES
  - defaults write com.typeit4me.TypeIt4MeMenu AddCmdQ -bool YES
  The above commands need to be typed in Terminal as there is currently no UI for them in the preferences.
• Added “ALMOST EQUAL TO” (Unicode 2248) to set of punctuation signs (“.,+-~/”) that can precede numerals in abbs that expand number+suffix combos.
• Users can now add more than one backspace symbols at the start of clippings.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed crashes when launching TypeIt4Me when its preferences file has become corrupted.
• Restored “Trigger on period(.) followed by another delimiter” functionality.

A bug in Firefox can prevent any text expander, including TypeIt4Me, from observing keyboard input because “Secure Event Input” is enabled when a user enters a password but not always disabled when leaving the password field.

This bug was reported back in April 2010 and the Mozilla team have now provided a fix, available in the Firefox nightly build and in an upcoming beta release.

The above bug in Firefox and several other applications, including Quicken, is what prompted us to add a Growl notification every time TypeIt4Me detects that Secure Event Input has been enabled. This will alert the user that TypeIt4Me will no longer expand until Secure Event Input has been disabled.

If you see the Growl message and it isn’t followed by one to say that Secure Event Input has been disabled (once the password entry action is completed, for example), please make a note of what application you are using so we can report this to their developers.

If you do not have Growl installed, we would heartily recommend you install it as it can be very useful over and beyond the TypeIt4Me-related notification.

New features:

• TypeIt4Me now handles older as well as latest SpellCatcher XML export
• TypeIt4Me now also Handles CR (return) in a similar way to TAB when expanding in spreadsheets

Fixed Bugs:

• The clipboard is restored after expansion
• TypeIt4Me no longer accepts older registration codes only to reject them later
• Triggering expansion with TAB no longer leaves the first letter of the abbreviation behind
• The contents of the clipboard are restored no matter what other modifiers are pressed on cmd-v

TapIt4Me 1.1.1 has been tested and is fully compatible with the new iPhone 3.0 software release. It’s in the app store now as a free update. Apologies for those of you who had trouble with the previous version.