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-====== What’s New? ======
-===== 7.1.1 =====
-* [[action:Group|Group]], [[action:Until|Until]], [[action:While|While]] actions focus on the contained action list when inserted/disclosed.
-* Optimizations to drop simple text expansion macros size by 30%, down to 160 bytes.
-* Ensure Creation/Modification time is set when macro groups / macros are created.
-* Add Split/List/Loop as search matches for [[action:For_Each|For Each]] action.
-* Add Wait as search matches for [[/Home_Page?do=search&id=Pause+ns%3Aaction|Pause actions]].
-* Add Pause as search matches for [[/Home_Page?do=search&id=Wait+ns%3Aaction|Wait for Browser actions]].
-* Add Say as search matches for [[action:Speak_Text|Speak Text]] action.
-* Add Split as search matches for [[collection:Substrings_In|Substrings In]] collection.
-* Fixed bug with [[trigger:Periodic|Periodic trigger]] units.
-* Fixed bug with [[:Found_Image|finding images on screen]].
-===== 7.1 =====
-COMPATIBILITY NOTE: [[trigger:Folder|Folder Trigger]] now sets [[token:TriggerValue|%TriggerValue%]] to the full path. Adjust macros to account for this.
-COMPATIBILITY NOTE: [[action:Search Variable|Search Variable]]/[[action:Search Clipboard|Clipboard]] actions now fail if the match fails. Adjust actions to disable aborting/notification when the match fails if desired, ensuring you handle the case where the target variables are not modified by the action.
-* New [[action:Execute a JavaScript in Custom Prompt|Execute a JavaScript in Custom Prompt]] action.
-* Added timeout to [[action:Custom HTML Prompt|Custom HTML Prompt]].
-* Added window.KeyboardMaestro.Trigger( macro, value ) to [[action:Custom HTML Prompt|Custom HTML Prompt]].
-* Clear HTML Result Button variable when [[action:Custom HTML Prompt|Custom HTML Prompt]] starts.
-* [[action:Custom HTML Prompt|Custom HTML Prompt]] can autofocus on textareas.
-* [[action:Custom HTML Prompt|Custom HTML Prompt]] added call to KMDidShowWindow().
-* Added Paste Above.
-* Use custom icon for Macro Group Icon Palettes.
-* Detect and report Secure Input Mode process.
-* Detect and report idiotic "Allow JavaScript from Apple Events".
-* Added support for configurable Safari and Chrome applications.
-* Added an option to Set Variable to Text to disable backslash or text token processing.
-* Added AppleScript setvariable/getvariable commands, primarily for JXA.
-* Allow action timeouts of hundredths of a second.
-* Editor now quits the Engine on launch if all modifiers are held down.
-* Imported macros are now disabled if all modifers are held down.
-* Search Variable/Clipboard actions now fail if the match fails.
-* Save revisions even if Keyboard Maestro editor was open over night.
-* Adjusted non-recursive [[action:For Each|For Each]] Path in Folder to read the entire folder at the start.
-* Adjusted short trigger display for arrows and Page Up/Down.
-* Adjusted Pixel condition a little.
-* Allow Share to Forum of macros with , or ; in their name.
-* Allow %Variable%<space>Variable Name<space>%.
-* Allow Max Concealed Position of 1.
-* Allow text tokens in the Press Button action.
-* Performance improvements in some editing cases.
-* Remove white popup menu hover bug in El Capitan by default.
-* Fixed display of [[action:Move or Click Mouse|Move Mouse]], Found Image title text field.
-* Fixed variable popup in Write/Append text to file editor.
-* Fixed Variable selector popup not working in Find Image action.
-* Verify code signing of version control update file.
-* Use HTTPS for all wiki linked help.
-* Use HTTPS for all version control, feedback, crash reporting, etc.
-* Use HTTPS for all documentation and web site links.
-* Make Click Link operate asynchronously.
-* Avoid excessive slowdown while typing in Set Variable to Browser Field action editor.
-* Fixed a crashing issue with finding images on screen.
-* Fixed a crashing issue with undo.
-* Fixed restoring selection issue with undo.
-* Fixed a potential bug that can corrupt variable types in the [[action:Custom HTML Prompt|Custom HTML Prompt]] action.
-* Fixed handling of Escape in Share to Forum sheet.
-===== 7.0.3 =====
-* Fixed a crash in getting Keyboard Layout Icons.
-* Fixed an issue with Conflict Palettes with more than one column.
-* Worked around (again) Mail AppleScript bug that breaks Send Mail Message with attachments.
-* Added help to the Insert Action menu (when holding the Option key).
-* Changed Execute Macro with Parameter to tokenize its parameter.
-===== 7.0.2 =====
-* Extended variable character set to allow all unicode letters and digits.
-* Extended Set Keyboard Layout to include input methods (eg Hiragana, Pinyin, etc).
-* Support AppleScript 'variable "X" exists' facility.
-* Support text completion for coordinate text (eg v.left).
-* Added Execute Macro to Keyboard Maestro action list category.
-* Added AutomaticCompletion preference to disable auto completion.
-* Fixed a crash in the editor when you turned off editing mode.
-* Fixed an issue where the engine quit when the editor was launched.
-* Fixed an issue where macro groups could be active when the palette was not showing.
-* Fixed an issue with the Folder Trigger triggering when another Folder Trigger fires.
-* Fixed Pixel condition for "is less blue than"
-* Fixed issue with some two character systems and entering macro names.
-* Fixed an issue where Center window was centering on the main screen.
-* Fixed a potential issue with Set Variable to Web Browser Field.
-* Fixed non-edit display of some Write to File formats.
-* Fixed maximum opacity issue in switchers.
-* Removed On/Off from tooltips in toggle buttons.
-* Reduce NSRunningApplication logging.
-* Allow Share to Forum of macros with / in their name.
-* Worked around more NSRunningApplication issues.
-* Worked around a bug in Mail/OS X 10.11 affecting the Send Mail Message and leave open.
-* Hacked around a bug in Mail/OS X 10.11 affecting the Send Mail Message with attachments.
-* Ensure clipboard issues debugging window stays visible.
-===== 7.0.1 =====
-* Allow 10.10.0-2, with a warning about Yosemite bugs.
-* New Safari/Google Chrome Tab now works if there are no windows open.
-* Added Gemmell Purple palette style.
-* Add control over notification of timeout failures.
-* Turn gear icon blue if there is a note attached to the action.
-* Support opening .kmaction files to add it to the current macro.
-* Support Option-Return/Enter in Trigger Macro by Name to edit the macro.
-* Fixed a crash when you switch the Screen Capture area to "Area".
-* Fixed a crash when editing the theme style of a macro group with no macros.
-* Fixed a crash and other issues with the Folder Changed trigger.
-* Fixed Wireless trigger multiple firing issue.
-* Fixed Application "All Applications" trigger to only trigger for foreground applications.
-* Fixed the Copy/Cut actions, not waiting long enough.
-* Fixed the Copy to Named Clipboard action, not waiting long enough.
-* Fixed Escape doing Get instead of Cancel on the Share to Forum sheet.
-* Fixed use of user locale for %ShortDate% et al tokens.
-* Fixed web server custom.css MIME type set to text/css.
-* Fixed multiline text fields in plugin action editors.
-* Fixed a problem with clipboard history in Word 2016.
-* Fixed non-edit display of hot key tapped twice trigger.
-* Fixed gear menu icon to update when the action was not disclosed.
-* Fixed Undo while search field is selected to apply only to the search field.
-* Fixed Find Image action to return the full results (left,top,width,height,fuzz).
-* Fixed Set Color of actions on first control click to have color swatches.
-* Changed Share to Forum to use PNG instead of TIFF.
-* ChangedShare to Forum to post by https.
-* Worked around system bug with GetProcessForPID that affected activating applications.
-* Cleaned up some application handling code.
-* Detect possible re-entrant call to load macros.
-===== 7.0 =====
-==== Editor Improvements ====
-* Added Smart Groups.
-* Added Insert Action by Name.
-* Added autocomplete of text tokens, functions, variables and search tokens.
-* Added Insert Action menu to Edit menu.
-* Added disclosure folding for sub-action lists.
-* Added action menu and contextual menu to macro actions.
-* Added option to rename actions.
-* Added color option to actions.
-* Added note option to actions.
-* Added control over Abort on Failure of actions.
-* Added control over Notification on Failure of actions.
-* Added Sort by Date Created; Use Count; Time Saved.
-* Added Paste Above to action/contextual menu.
-* Added Help link to action/contextual menu.
-* Added Help link when option-selecting triggers/actions/functions/tokens/collections/conditions.
-* Added status line below Macro Groups and Macro columns.
-* Added Get/Go buttons to Mouse Click action.
-* Added Macro Inspector window.
-* Added Mouse Display window.
-* Added Share button to main editor window.
-* Share macros or actions directly to the forum.
-* Added Import/Export of sets of actions.
-* Changed search in editor to support words and quoted phrases.
-* Changed search to support group:, app:, universal:, all:, enabled:.
-* Highlight found triggers and actions in editor.
-* Changed error display to only orange if the issue is an invalid variable value.
-* Used/Backward/Forward/History macro history buttons.
-* Improved display of toggle buttons (eg Modifiers/Days of the Week).
-* Honor user's locale setting for First Day of the Week.
-* Require Command-Delete to delete Macros Groups and Macro Groups.
-* Added Deselect All in the Edit menu.
-* Added Enter Action and Parent Action in the Edit menu.
-* Single click on a selected item deselects other items.
-* Sort the trigger list, conditions list and collection list.
-* Limited the size of the Undo stack in the editor.
-* Changed Insert Token and Function menus to be hierarchical.
-* Add an "All Macros" entry in the macro selector popup macro.
-* If you delete a macro, macro group or action, the following item is selected.
-==== Themed Palette Styles ====
-* Lots of different color styles.
-* Control style, size, columns, opacity.
-* Control whether the icon, text or trigger is shown.
-* Control whether the palette shrinks to an icon when not in use.
-==== Macro Additions ====
-* Added Macro Groups available in Focussed Window Macro Group targeting.
-* Added Macro Groups available when applications are or are not running.
-* Added Focussed Window Changed Trigger.
-* Added Folder Changed Trigger.
-* Added Clipboard Changed Trigger.
-* Added Sleep Trigger.
-* Added support for double tap, triple tap, etc, Hot Key triggers.
-* Added support for double tap, triple tap, etc, Device Key triggers.
-* Added Custom HTML Prompt action.
-* Added Switch/Case Action.
-* Added Group Action.
-* Added Execute Javascript for Automation (JXA) action.
-* Added Execute Swift Script action.
-* Added Simulate Hardware Key action.
-* Added Type Modifier Key action.
-* Added Set Action Delay action to control various speeds.
-* Added Mark Macro action to mark/unmark status menu and palette icons.
-* Added option to Press and Hold/Repeat keys, modifiers or hardware keys.
-* Added option to Press and Hold mouse buttons.
-* Added Swift and Javascript for Automation to Script Condition.
-* Added Found Image on Screen collection to For Each action.
-* Added explicit Area option to Screen Capture action.
-* Added Screen Area limits for Found Image searches.
-* Added Any Window Title condition.
-* Added Set Keyboard Layout action.
-* Added Conceal/Reveal All Palettes actions.
-* Added Cut/Copy/Paste actions. CutCopy wait for the clipboard to change.
-* Added Content Type/Kind, and Where From attributes to Get File Attribute.
-* Added Added Date, Downloaded Date, Last Used Date attributes to Get File Attribute.
-* Added Finder Comment to Get/Set File Attribute.
-* Added Invisible to Get/Set File Attribute.
-* Added Open 1Password Bookmark action.
-* Added SECUREINPUT() function.
-* Added CONCEALEDPALETTES() function.
-* Added MENUBARHEIGHT() function.
-* Added SCREENVISIBLE() function.
-* Added %ScreenVisible% text token.
-* Added %MacroNameForUUID%UUID% text token.
-* Added Macro/Macro Group enabled/disabled/active/inactive condition.
-* Added specific area option to Capture Screen Image action.
-* Added Always Nominal Resolution option to Capture Screen Image action.
-* Added option to exclude errors (STDERR) from script output.
-* Added option to mouse action to allow drag destination to be absolute.
-* Added filter to quote for AppleScript, Shell Script, JavaScript and Swift.
-* Added filter to Percent Decode URLs.
-* Added filter to get the value of a Named Variable or Named Clipboard.
-* Added "with parameter" option for Execute Macro action.
-* Allow Text Tokens in variable name of Set Variable to actions.
-* Allow Text Tokens in Select Menu Item.
-* Allow Text Tokens and menu paths (Edit->Copy) in Menu Condition.
-==== Engine Additions ====
-* Added optional Paste menu to Status Menu (with Paste Plain (shift) and Set-only (option)).
-* Added kmtrigger: URL Scheme trigger (with parameter).
-* Expand default clipboard history to 200 items.
-* Added some clipboard flavor exclusions that cause problems in Word 2011 reading EBMS flavors.
-* Added some clipboard flavor exclusions that cause problems in Word 2016 reading OLE LINK flavors.
-* Added .width and .height in variables with only two entries (eg "123,456").
-* Added .fuzz option to calculations (specifically for the Found Image collection).
-* Restrict environment variable size of variables to 100k.
-* Variables whose names start with "ENV‗" override regular environment variables (eg "ENV‗PATH").
-* Added "with parameter" option for AppleScript "do script" triggered macros.
-* Added parameter option for Web Server triggered macros.
-* Palette and Status Menu triggered macros report the modifiers in the TriggerValue token.
-* Default recorded mouse clicks to not restoring the mouse location.
-* Added an implicit semaphore at the start of a quick recorded macro.
-* Added option for Conflict Palette to appear under the mouse.
-* Added option for Macro Group palettes to appear under the mouse.
-* Added option to Application Switcher to allow switching only one window.
-* Added Display Large option to execute and display text actions.
-* Added AppleEvent to retrieve all the macro groups/macros even the inactive ones.
-* Updated Trigger Macro By Name window.
-* Updated Web Search window.
-==== Editor Minor Changes ====
-* Allow up to 9999 Seconds/Minutes/Hours in Periodic Trigger.
-* Added link to Keyboard Maestro Wiki in the Help menu.
-* Added link to Regular Expression Unicode Properties reference in the Help menu.
-* Search Variable/Clipboard results show if the captured data includes more text than displayed.
-* Added information to empty web browser action insertion menus.
-* Wireless Network trigger can now fill in wifi text field.
-* Added Insert Text by Typing variant to action selector.
-* Added Click at Found Image variant to action selector.
-* Preserve leading spaces in non-edit script display.
-* Better preserving of selection when compiling AppleScripts.
-* Changing Write File format while holding the option key disables changing the extension.
-* Added a cache of rich text for compiled scripts to avoid needing to recompile them.
-* Updated Or by Script to include JavaScript and Swift, as well as optional parameters.
-==== Minor Changes ====
-* Fixed system rewriting h to H in ICUDateTime formats.
-* Fix Yosemite NSSpeechSynthesizer bug that stops Speak Text working properly.
-* Removed defunct Fix Finder Selection Bug fixed in Yosemite.
-* Removed offline Help.
-* Added SequentialConflictPalette hidden preference.
-* Dropped the recording manual pause time from 1.0 down to 0.25 seconds.
-* Increased the limit on Typed String triggers to 100 characters.
-* Added hidden preference to stop mouse clicks from zapping the typed string buffer.
-* When referencing applications or system preferences, references are stored relative to the home directory if appropriate.
-* The actions list becomes focussed when it is closed and contained the focus.
-* Added DetailDisplayExtraStyle hidden preference.
-* Added ReportUpdatesWhenEditorActivates hidden preference.
-* Cut/Copy to Named Clipboard action waits until the clipboard changes.
-* Use Notification Center instead of Growl for most notifications.
-* Added hidden preferences to control Notification Center displays.
-* Limit clipboard flavor sizes to 10MB (with hidden preference).
-* Play various sounds as System Sounds so they honour the "Play sound effects" preference.
-* Added accessibility support to Application and Window Switchers.
-* Changed Conflict Palette to prefer alphabetical hot keys including digits over index hot keys.
-* Changed MOD/AND/OR/etc to take precedence over variable names so Variable MOD Variable works.
-==== Bug Fixes =====
-* Fixed spelling of height in Get Image Size action.
-* Fixed a possible race condition with "one action" macro palettes.
-* Fixed a case where the "Must be unique" checkbox could be difficult to click.
-* Restrict split view resizing to clicks that are near the divider.
-* Corrected TRIGGERTIME() to be relative to 1970 epoch.
-* Support lowercase pi character in calculations.
-* Issues with shifted characters in emulators/remote desktops might be resolved.
-* Handle surrogate pairs in non-edit/HTML displays.
-* Fixed Macro Group Disabled/Enabled display toggle when many toggles happen quickly.
-* Fixed a potential crash when looking for buttons in applications with poor accessibility support.
-* Fixed an issue where the Execute Macro action could refuse to set the macro.
-* Fixed flashing focus ring for text views.
-* Fixed a possible crash when setting a hot key.
-* Fixed %Screen%Front%, %Screen%Back%, %Screen%Back2%, %Screen%Mouse%.

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