Keyboard Maestro 9.0

What's new in this version:

Major Changes:
- Support multiple editor windows.
- Support Dark Mode (requires 10.14+)
- Added JSON support
- Added OCR support
- Added extended Regex support
- Added support for Stream Deck
- Hardened Runtime. Notarized
- Requires OS X 10.11 El Capitan or later

Dark Mode:
- Support Dark Mode (requires 10.14+)
- Added Dark Mode preference (System, Light or Dark) (requires 10.14+)
- Added Set/Toggle System Dark Mode actions (requires 10.14+)
- Added Set/Toggle Keyboard Maestro Dark Mode actions (requires 10.14+)
- Added DARKMODE and KMDARKMODE functions (requires 10.14+)

JSON:
- Added Set JSON Value action
- Added Set Variables to JSON action
- Added Set Dictionary to JSON action
- Added %JSONValue%VarName[2+3].field.{%FieldName%}% token (and Pretty and Strict variants)
- Added %JSONFromVariables%Prefix% token (and Pretty and Strict variants)
- Added %JSONFromDictionary%Dictionary% token (and Pretty and Strict variants)
- Added JSONVALUE(VarName[2+3].field.{%Variable%FieldName%}) function
- Added JSON Keys collection
- Added context sensitive COUNT() function within JSON array accesses
- Added filter to JSON Compact and JSON Pretty

Stream Deck:
- Added Stream Deck Plug In
- Added Stream Deck Plug In to USB Device Key trigger
- Added Stream Deck Set Title action
- Added Stream Deck Set Image action
- Added Stream Deck Show OK action
- Added Stream Deck Show Alert action

Extended Regex:
- Support U, u, L, l and E in token fields including Search & Replace fields
- Support named capture groups (${name}) in regular expression replacement fields (10.13+)

Editor:
- Support multiple editor windows
- Support for Increased Contrast
- Support contextual menu in Macros column
- Support contextual menu in Macro Groups column
- In the Insert Action/Token/Function by Name windows, Option-Double Click, and Option-Return open the wiki help (forum)
- Dragging a folder in to a macro now creates an Open Folder action
- Dragging a workflow into a macro now creates an Execute an Automator Workflow action
- Use VarName as the default variable name in more places
- Changed “Import Macros Disabled…” menu name to “Import Macros Safely…” to avoid confusion
- Added a Sort Disabled Macros to Bottom option
- Select from Recently Executed now focuses on Macros Column/Macro in non-Edit mode
- Added macros to Spotlight index (requires 10.13+) (forum)
- Adjust macro name / trigger column resizing to allow for longer trigger names
- Better display of invalid calculations in the editor (forum)
- No display of calculation errors in the editor if the issue is only that a Local or Instance variable has no value (forum)
- Large Text setting now affects resizable text views in actions
- Added hidden preferences to allow setting the font/size of text views in actions, including fixed width script fonts
- Added Toolbar labels to enhance accessibility
- Enhanced the Interactive Help with further support for when a macro is triggered but not doing what you want
- Added detection of Mojave accessibility setting bugs to the Interactive Help system (sigh)

Engine:
- Added Display Layout Changed trigger
- Added Iconaholic Rotate status menu icon
- Added default Clipboard Filters group
- Support sorting the Applications Palette by launch date (Quinn)
- Preserve DPI of images in image actions (forum)
- Add “real-time” recording mode (forum)
- Avoid copying as PDF in Microsoft apps (Microsoft apps are still slow on first copy while starting the RTF engine)
- Avoid copying many different image formats on the clipboard, only save TIFF and PNG formats
- Support “Place Under Mouse” in Clipboard History Switcher
- Large Text setting now affects Quick Look and Display Text in Window plain text size
- Support button keys with or without command keys in Prompt For User Input windows with no text fields (forum)
- Added JavaScript in Front Browser script condition (forum)
- Treat clipboard entries with file references to images as images
- Add Large Text Display period to the Set Action Delay action settings
- Support the AppleScript “windows” property returning all the panel windows in the Engine (forum)
- Triggering a macro will not necessarily cancel a conflict palette or “for once” palette. This may change in the future

Themes:
- Added Dark Mode palette theme
- Added Mojave Night palette theme (forum)
- Added Blue Lagoon palette theme
- Added Blue Night palette theme
- Added Purple Dream palette theme
- Added Orange Light palette theme
- Added enhanced custom palette theme with gradient options (forum)
- Added an option to center or not center the text in palette themes (forum)

Clipboard Switcher:
- If multiple items are selected in the Clipboard Switcher, Command-C merges them into the system clipboard
- If multiple items are selected in the Clipboard Switcher, Command-V merges and then pastes them
- If multiple images are selected, merging them creates a single larger image (horizontally or vertically, depending on the separator)
- Added a contextual menu to select the Multiple Clipboard Separator
- If a single item is selected in the Clipboard History Switcher, command-C sets the system clipboard to it

Actions:
- Added OCR (Optical Character Recognition) action for screen and images
- Added OCR condition for screen and images
- Added Set Desktop Image action
- Add Cancel a Specific Macro action
- Added Append/Prepend to Variable actions
- Added Set Clipboard to Image action
- Added Set Clipboard to File Reference action
- Added Append Text to Variable option for various outputs (eg Execute Script output)
- Added Show/Hide/Toggle Applications Palette action
- Updated Open 1Password action to work with 1Password 7.3+
- Added URL selction to Open 1Password action (requires 1Password 7.3+)
- Added Display Name option to Filter and Get File Attribute
- Added modifiers to Simulate the Hardware Key action
- Added Small Increase/Decrease System Sound Volume actions
- Added Small Increase/Decrease System Brightness actions
- Add clipboard and file options to Find Image action
- Add clipboard and file options to Click at Found Image action
- Add clipboard and file options to Found Images collection and condition
- Added bottom to top and right to left options for Found Images collection
- Added image selection (eg “rightmost”) options to Find Image action
- Added non-unique image selection (eg “rightmost”) options to Click at Found Image action
- Added %ApplicationPath%1% token
- Added “All”, “Foreground”, “Background” options to Application tokens
- Added “All” option to Window and Screen tokens
- Added %ExecutingInstance% token representing the current execution instance
- Added %ExecutingInstances% listing the current execution instances
- Added %ExecutingInstanceName%instance% giving the name of a specific instance
- Added %FrontBrowser%, %FrontBrowserBundleID% and %FrontBrowserPath% tokens
- Added HEX, OCT, and BIN functions
- Added DIV operator
- Support two-parameter variants of RANDOM and RAND functions (forum)
- Support SCREENVISIBLE(VarName,…) when VarName is “Back”, etc (forum)
- Support “Index” as a coordinate to the SCREEN and SCREENVISIBLE function
- Support Smart Groups in Trigger Macro By Name action
- Support Smart Groups in Show Palette of Macros action
- Added an option to select the units for the Pause action
- Added screen selection menu options for second, third, external, internal, etc in various actions
- Added an option to not sort entires in the Prompt With List action (forum)
- Added an option to set the title of the Prompt For File action (forum)
- Added an option to set the initial directory of the Prompt For File action (forum)
- Added a parameter option to the Get a URL action
- Added a parameter option to the Remote Trigger action
- Added an option to the Open URL action to open the URL in the background
- Support token processing options in the various web browser actions
- Tokens that start with %Local or %Instance but that do not match an existing local/instance variable are assume to be empty variables (forum)

Speed:
- Improved launch speed, especially with multiple editor windows
- Improved speed displaying the All Macros group with large numbers of macros
- Improved Clipboard History display speed and memory usage with lots of large images
- Improved Clipboard History save/load speed with lots of large images
- Improved Named Clipboard save/load speed with lots of large images

Minor:
- Added “web” and “website” as a search synonym for Open URL and Get URL actions
- Added “load” and “save” as search synonyms for Read File and Write File actions
- Added “create” and “directory” as search synonyms for New Folder action
- Added “annotate” as search synonyms for Composite onto Image action
- Added “dialog” and “window” as search synonyms for Alert and Prompt for User Input actions
- Added “Insert Styled Text by Pasting” to action insertion lists
- Added hidden preference settings to configure the fonts in scripts, HTML, JSON and Comment actions
- Added options to match applications based on just Bundle ID (rather than Path & Bundle ID)
- Expanded hex character tokens to include emoji (eg
F300%)
- Adjusted Filter Percent Encode for URL to encode all non-alphanumeric characters
- Adjusted Search the Web action to token expand the Title field (forum)
- Default shell environment to UTF-8 if not explicitly set
- Changed Application Trigger to set TriggerValue to the path of the application (may break macros)
- Include Smart Groups in macro selector popup menu
- Trigger Macro by Name initial search now processes tokens
- Adjusted Comment action to enable automatic link detection
- Adjusted Insert Styled text and Display Styled Text action to enable automatic link detection
- Adjusted the palette displays slightly, de-bolded the content text and added some space (forum)
- Disabled Smart Copy/Paste in most text fields (forum)
- Attempt to better support control over Smart Quote/Dash/Link Substitution/Detection
- Detect AppleScript errors and abort/fail the Execute AppleScript action
- Detect Shell script errors and abort/fail the Execute Shell Script action
- Detect Plug In script errors and abort/fail the Plug In action
- Avoid New Folder action failing in the case where the folder already exists
- Improve error display of text script errors (remove long extraneous temporary path)
- Hidden Windows show slightly dimmed text in the Window Switcher
- Handle kmtrigger: URLs with bogus slash (/) at the end added by Word
- Worked around Google Chrome’s stupid window title accessibility issue
- Worked around Safari 12.1 not disabling the Stop menu when the page is finished loading (radar 49309868)
- Worked around an issue with dates and times not being localized in Mojave
- Support Brave and Vivaldi browsers as a Chrome-compatible Front Browser
- Rate-limit Named Clipboard Change notifications
- Rate-limit Allow JavaScript from Apple Events notifications
- Improved Search Using Regular Expressions to indicate invalid variables in red
- Invalid variables that are entered in various fields and show up red will not be saved
- Improve error display of calculation errors
- Added primary trigger to Macro Inspector / Trigger Macro by Name windows
- Adjusted the Continue/Retry Loop action icon to a Control Flow icon instead of a Stop icon
- Adjusted the Share to Forum default name to be less verbose
- Detect Universal Clipboards and display a network icon as the source
- Removed support for signatures in Send Mail Message as Mail.app’s signature support is broken
- Detect more Audio Output Device changes

Fixes:
- Fixed Revert to interact properly with Undo/Redo
- Fixed the title of the Set Action Delay action
- Fixed a crash if the engine is launched via a .kmtrigger file
- Fixed the non-edit display of the Macro condition
- Fixed the non-edit display of the Modifiers condition
- Fixed the non-edit display of the Text condition
- Fixed performance issue with Word Count filter
- Fixed an issue where the “ends with” condition fails if the end string is also in the middle of the string
- Fixed an issue where macro groups that were inactive and then had their configuration changed would not necessarily activate
- Fixed an issue with Prompt With List action not showing as much as possible of long entries
- Fixed an issue with gestures of a single diagonal direction being allowed
- Fixed an issue with the character selection menu highlighting in the Icon Chooser Character display
- Fixed an issue with highlighting display of truncated names in Window Switcher
- Fixed an issue when running a macro from the editor immediately after making a change
- Fixed an issue where Conflict Palettes could not use the key they were triggered with
- Fixed Command-V in the search field in the Clipboard Switcher
- Fixed a crash in ThemedPaletteMatrixCell when the entry is tracking the mouse but the palette changes
- Fixed an issue with the Prompt for File action not honouring the file types
- Fixed an issue where the editor window would hide if you selected Help from a Insert By Name window
- Fixed Icon Chooser sorting applications case sensitively
- Fixed an issue with Enable/Disable macros resulting in a delay in operation of Typed String trigger
- Fixed Break From Loop, Retry Loop, Continue Loop considering a Group to be a loop
- Fixed an issue with Emoji character transparency in palettes
- Fixed Get Touch Bar to properly handle Code__Title options