Keyboard Maestro 8.0

What's new in this version:

EDITOR IMPROVEMENTS:
- Added new Assistance system to help novices trouble shoot any early issues
- Large Text size support in editor lists (Macros, Groups, Library, etc)
- Added Machine Learning system to By Name selectors
- Added dragging of macros/macro groups to action macro selector popup menus
- Added basic Touch Bar support
- Added Actions menu
- Added Run Macro menu and toolbar item to run the currently selected macro
- Added Engroup Actions (into a new Group, Macro, For Each, While, etc) (forum)
- Added Degroup Actions
- Added Paste Replacing for actions (forum)
- Added Select Macro by Name
- Added Insert Function by Name
- Added Insert Token by Name
- Added Insert Variable by Name
- Added File ➤ Share menu
- Added Import Macros Disabled menu command
- Adjusted Import Macros menu command to require the Option key
- Added Edit ➤ Insert Token ➤ Named Clipboard hierarchical menu
- Added �lete% to the Insert Token menu
- Show an indiciator of the kind (token, variable, calculation) of each field in the editor
- Support negation (-) in the search fields (forum)
- Default to last used variable when creating new actions
- Support changing Safari actions to/from Google Chrome actions
- Support styled text in comments
- Added an option to hide disabled macro groups
- Added wiki search to Help menu
- Added Make Alias for macros (and command-option dragging macros to groups)
- Play Sound supports sounds in ~/Library/Sounds and ~/Sounds
- Click on macro group label (top right) to select the enclosing macro group
- Adjusted the disclosure behaviour of Execute Macro action
- Added Space, Escape, and Help to the Hot Key selection menu
- Added a disabled color to the action color menu to indicate the color means a matched search
- Added Copy as XML to copy macro groups, macros or actions as XML (forum)
- Added View ➤ Select Groups Column menu item
- Added View ➤ Select Macros Column menu item
- Added View ➤ Edit Name menu item
- Added View ➤ Reveal Parent Group menu item
- Added View ➤ Last Used, Last Edited, Previous Edited, Next Edited menu items (forum)
- Added Select Macro option to macro selector popup menu
- Added Philippe Martin's Multiple Clipboards to the Macro Library
- Added Rename Finder Files to the Macro Library
- Show a warning on “Press and Hold” actions that are the last action of the macro
- Show a warning when using Open File to open applications with the Default Application
- Show a warning when an Application trigger cannot fire because of the macro group's settings
- Show a warning when a For Each action does not use its variable
- Show a warning when a string containing test looks like it should be a string matching test
- Support pasting XML actions (forum)
- Changed to a patterned color for the search matching indicator (forum)
- Color invalid Calculation conditions (forum)
- Adjusted the appearance of disabled actions to make them more clearly disabled (forum)
- Support quitting the editor by closing the editor window
- When showing a mapping from an empty variable show italic “empty”
- Show “No Forms Found” (etc) when Safari/Chrome popups cannot find any valid entries (forum)
- Minor tweaks to the overall appearance
- Removed misleading “Matching” from Search & Replace “String” search
- Double clicking icon image wells opens and sets the Icon Chooser
- The Modifiers condition no longer allows setting a modifier to be both pressed and not pressed (forum)

Support dragging macros and macro groups into the macro action list:
- No modifiers: Execute the Macro / Show the Macro Group
- Option: insert a copy of the macro’s actions
- Command-Shift: Enable the Macro / Macro Group
- Option-Shift: Mark the Macro

Support dragging files in as macros or actions:
- Applications as Activate Application action
- Scripts as the appropriate Execute Script action
- Other files as Open File actions

FULL APPLESCRIPT SUPPORT IN THE EDITOR:

Macro Groups, Smart Groups, Macros, Triggers, Actions are all AppleScirpt OSA objects. Examples:
- properties of smart group “Enabled”
- make new smart group with properties {name:“Enabled”, search strings:{“enabled:yes”}}
- set search strings of smart group “Test2” to {“ABC”, “DEF”}
- set name of macro 1 to “Great!”
- tell macro group “New Stuff” to make new macro
- select action 1 through 3 of action 2 of macro “Working”
- set enable of macro group “Turn Off” to false
- set color of action 1 of macro “Bright” to “red”
- set selection to global macro group
- move first action of macro “Source Macro” to end of actions of macro “Dest Macro”
- delete second action of macro “Target Macro”
- duplicate every macro group whose name starts with “Test”
- set m to duplicate action 1 of macro “Macro33” to after action 2 of macro “Macro32”
- duplicate (selected macros) to macro group “Test4”

REVAMP CLIPBOARD HISTORY SWITCHER & NAMED CLIPBOARD SWITCHER:
- New combined appearance
- Additional information (source, type, size, pixel size, time, index)
- Drag Reordering
- Drag from the switcher to image or text fields
- Contextual menu to Paste, Paste Plain, or Paste Image, Duplicate
- Contextual menu to just set the current clipboard without pasting
- Large Text size support in Clipboard Switchers
- Support excluding applications from the clipboard history

EXPANDED MIDI SUPPORT:
- Added MIDI Control Change trigger
- Added MIDI raw packet trigger (SysEx, HUI protocol, etc)
- Support MIDI trigger recording when the text fields are focused in background
- Added Send MIDI raw packets so you can send any kind of MIDI packet
- Send MIDI action uses calculations so you can send varying notes and control changes
- Handle and split multiple MIDI packets received in a single system MIDI packet

ADDED LOCAL AND INSTANCE VARIABLES:
- Added the concept of Local Variables, local to the macro they are in
- Added the concept of Instance Variables, local to macro execution group they are in

ADDED DICTIONARIES:
- Added the concept of dictionaries, mapping (case insensitively) a dictionary name and key name to a value
- Added Set Dictionary Value action
- Added %Dictionary[Dict,Key]% text token
- Added collection of Dictionaries and Keys in a Dictionary
- Added full AppleScript support for accessing Dictionaries

NEW TRIGGERS:
- Added Cron trigger
- Added Gesture triggers drawn with the trackpad or mouse
- Added Audio Output Changed triggers drawn with the trackpad or mouse
- Added Remote trigger via a Keyboard Maestro server
- Added Clipboard Filter trigger
- Added Audio Output Device Changed trigger
- Added Idle trigger (trigger after the Mac is idle for N minutes)
- Added Export Trigger File which lets you trigger a macro by opening a file

NEW ACTIONS:
- Added Show Palette of Macros action with (optional) Touch Bar action
- Added Get Touch Bar Selection action
- Added Prompt With List action (forum)
- Added Get a URL action (including getting images) (forum)
- Added Remote Trigger action
- Added Trigger Macros by Hot Key action
- Added Front Browser actions that work on the most front Safari or Chrome browser (forum)
- Added stdin input for Execute a Shell Script action
- Send SMS/iMessage Action (forum)
- Added Prompt For File/Folder action
- Added Continue Loop action (continues on to the next iteration)
- Added Retry This Loop action (restarts the current iteration)
- Added Assert action
- Added Split Path action to split a path into its component parts
- Added File as an input/output to many text actions
- Added File and Text as an input option to Lines In & Substrings In collections
- Added initial value to Trigger Macro by Name action
- Added option to restrict the macros in the Trigger Macro by Name action
- Added option to include inactive or disabled macros in Trigger Macro by Name action
- Added option to Play Sound action to play asynchronously (forum)
- Added option to Alert action to play a sound (forum)
- Added option to New Folder action to create intermediate folders
- Added asynchronous option to Custom HTML Prompt action
- Added resizable option to Custom HTML Prompt window
- Added non-floating option for Custom HTML Prompt window
- Added data-kmhandleschemes/KMHandleSchemes() to Custom HTML Prompt action
- Added Notify/Stop on Error to execute script actions
- Set �tionResult% token to stderr for execute script actions
- Pass parameters to Trigger Macro by Name using search // parameter
- Support XPath in all the Web Browser actions
- Generalized Filter action inputs and outputs
- Generalized Search using Regular Expression action inputs and outputs
- Generalized Search and Replace action inputs and outputs
- Simulate Keystroke can send the key to a non-front application
- Insert Text by Typing can send the keys to a non-front application
- Support Search and Replace action processing the input for each replacement
- Added Full Screen test to Front Window condition
- Added title matches option to Manipulate Window action

NEW CONDITIONS:
- Added , != numeric conditions
- Added “starts with” and “ends with” to string conditions
- Added “is before” and “is after” to string conditions that were missing them
- Added Action Result condition
- Added Mouse Button condition
- Added “is hidden” et al to the Application condition
- Added Trigger Clipboard and Named Clipboard options to the Clipboard condition

NEW COLLECTIONS:
- Added collection of Variables
- Added collection of Dictionaries
- Added collection of Keys in a Dictionary
- Added sort order to the Folder Contents collection

NEW TOKENS:
- Added %TriggerClipboard% token to return the text of the triggered clipboard
- Added %KeyboardLayout% token to return the current input source
- Added weekday option to %ICUDateTimePlus/Minus% tokens to find next occurrence of a specific day of the week
- Added %Hex2%, %Oct3%, �c5%, %Bin8% tokens to convert calculations to other bases
- Added �lculateFormat% token with selected or specified format
- Added %RandomUUID% token to generate a random Unique ID
- Added %AudioOutputDevice% token to return the currently selected Audio Output Device
- Support XPath in the %SafariField% (and other) tokens
- Added %FrontBrowserTitle%, %FrontBrowserURL%, etc tokens
- Added %FoundImage% token to return the results of the last attempt to find an image (forum)
- Added %AlertButton%, %PromptButton%, %HTMLResult% tokens. Deprecated equivalent variables (forum)

NEW FUNCTIONS:
- Added FRONTBROWSERTABCOUNT, FRONTBROWSERTABINDEX, FRONTBROWSERISCOMPLETE functions
- Added PIXEL(Red|Green|Blue|Hue|Saturation|Brightness|White|Cyan|Magenta|Yellow|Black,x,y) color function
- Added context sensitive DPI(X|Y) and SOURCEDPI(X|Y) functions

ENGINE IMPROVEMENTS:
- Added preference to show Conflict Palettes in the Touch Bar
- Support text with percent characters in text functions in token fields
- Only require Shift-Option-Control click on status menu to cancel all macros
- Added Machine Learning system to Trigger Macro by Name selector
- Added options to macro groups to be always active and show a palette sometimes
- Variables used in calculations can themselves contain calculations that are implicitly evaluated
- Support == as a synonym for = in calculations
- Support negative array indices for access from end of an array (calculation or Variable token)
- Support 0 array indices for count of the elements in an array (calculation or Variable token)
- Support executing an array of actions from AppleScript “do script” commands
- Restore front application before executing kmtrigger: macros (forum)
- Display Text window closes immediately if Return is hit once (forum)
- Added an option to turn off notifications of macro groups being activated/deactivated (forum)
- Adjusted Typed String triggers with “affects actions” option to only uppercase the first letter
- Added “Activate Clipboard Switcher” to the Paste status menu
- Periodically write the clipboard history to disk

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS AND CHANGES:
- Removed or renamed confusing use of “Default Clipboard”
- Prefer %SystemClipboard% over the older %CurrentClipboard%
- Support Home/End in Trigger Macro By Name and Add Action windows
- Adjusted the Select Menu action to return a failed ActionResult if the menu item is disabled
- Turning on/off the iOS web server preference properly changes the Rendezvous publications
- Changing any web browser settings kills all existing connections
- Added “disabled” option to importMacros AppleScript command
- Default to importing macros disabled unless the Option key is held down
- Adjusted a case where a “for one action” palette opens a Conflict Palette
- Adjusted the iTunes Control AppleScripts
- Added “exit”, “break”, “loop” as search strings to various actions
- Added “ask”, “input”, “InputBox” as search strings to prompt actions
- Added the Keyboard Maestro version number to the Share text
- Resolved display of executing macros for asynchronously executed macros (forum)
- Improved error message for File Action
- Fixed Fast User Switch action
- Disallow return characters in macro/group names
- Updated Share to Forum category names to match forum changes
- Removed Growl support
- Removed Always Hide Other Applications support

BUG FIXES:
- Fixed behaviour of Close After Action when you Command-V in the Clipboard Switcher
- Fixed Corsair K95 RGB Gaming Keyboard Device Key name display
- Fixed width issue with various scrolling lists
- Fixed a possible crash with Folder change triggers
- Fixed an issue compiling scripts that reference Keyboard Maestro itself
- Fixed an issue cropping images with non-nominal (72) DPIs (forum)
- Fixed an issue composing on to images with non-nominal (72) DPIs (forum)
- Fixed an issue if macros hold multiple semaphore locks
- Fixed an issue with Set Network Location and non-ASCII names
- Fixed a possible issue with columns resizing unexpectedly
- Fixed consistency of arrows for meaning left, right, width, height in actions (forum)
- Fixed unlocalized display of Focused Window trigger in non-edit mode
- Fixed issue with number steppers and empty fields (forum)
- Fixed inconsistent “Exit From Loop” menu name to “Break From Loop”
- Fixed icon centering in Icon Chooser
- Fixed double clicking macro names to select the title field
- Fixed some cases where popup menus occluded text fields