Select the default action required for text items on the left-click menu.
.topic 3
Choose the icon you want displayed in the tray. If running more than one KeyText at a time, try using different icons to distinguish them. The option "None" is only available if a keyboard shortcut has been set below.
.topic 4
Check the "On" box to switch the keyboard shortcut on. The hotkey is shown in the Hotkey box; to change it, click the box, then press the combination of keys required. The hotkey can be a combination of the Windows logo key (if present), Ctrl, Alt, Shift and a character, and must include either Win, Ctrl or Alt (although note that a number of Windows logo key combinations are reserved for Windows use, and you may not be able to set them). When pressed, the hotkey opens the left-click menu of the .kt3 file.
.topic 5
Changes the speed at which text is "typed" if Macro is the selected action for an item. Lower speeds include longer pauses after capital letters, punctuation marks etc., to simulate manual typing.
.topic 155
With Auto-add KeyText can monitor the clipboard, and every time text is copied to it, add that text to the beginning or end of the specified item. Switch it on or off here.
.topic 6
These settings relate to the left-click menu numbered options for automatically adding text to an item.
.topic 7
If text is added to an item using the left-click menu or auto-added, it is separated from existing text by the character(s) selected here.
.topic 8
If text is added to an item using the left-click menu or auto-added, it can be added to the beginning or the end as specified here.
.topic 9
If you are using Auto-add to collect pieces of text copied to the clipboard, you can choose to have Auto-add switched on the next time this .kt3 file is used.
.topic 75
You can specify a text item which will be started automatically whenever the current .kt3 file is opened. Set this to "None" if you do not require an auto-start item.
.topic 108
You can set the first item to appear on the "right-click anywhere" menu. Your form-filling texts could therefore be set to start at, for example, "Name", so that your name would be at the top followed by items A, B and so on, or 4A, and that item would appear top of the list in the new menu. Note that the right-click anywhere menu does not show empty items or items with a schedule.
.topic 11
Check here if you do not wish the welcome box to appear.
.topic 12
Check here to allow more than one copy (instance) of KeyText to run at the same time (only applies if you have purchased KeyText). The extra instances are based on your previous file list, as shown in the right-click menu; you can run up to 4 additional KeyTexts automatically using this list.
.topic 81
You can choose to have all [Return] characters typed, to have them all ignored (in which case use {Return} or {Enter} for a new line), or to have a [Return] character following immediately after the closing brace } of the undernoted fields ignored when the item is "typed". This helps to lay out fields better, which otherwise have to follow immediately after each other with no [Return]. Fields concerned are Activate, Ask (but only if no Ask output is selected), Beep, Call, Click, Endloop, If/Else/Endif, IgnoreTabs, Input, Loop, Menu, Message, Mouse, New, Pause, Run, Speed, Wait, and Wave.
.topic 83
Fields within text are normally delimited by braces {...}. If these are characters you use frequently, you can change the delimiters to [...] or <...>. Note that if you change this setting it applies to all .kt3 files, and you may need to edit them if they contain fields made using the previous setting.
.topic 68
Checking or unchecking this box adds or removes KeyText from the list of programs started automatically every time you run Windows.
.topic 16
Auto-add plays a stapler sound each time it is activated, to remind you it is switched on. Suppress the sound here.
.topic 14
Each text item is set with a maximum text limit of 50kb; you can change the maximum here.
.topic 18
If you prefer standard Windows menus, switch off the graphics feature here.
.topic 73
The left-click menu has 4 popup submenus which offer shortcuts to certain KeyText functions. These can be omitted, but note that KeyText functions for automatically adding text to an item will be unavailable.
.topic 69
Select this to add a "Right-click menu" item to the left-click menu. This enables keyboard-only users to access the right-click menu (press left-click hotkey first) without using a mouse.
.topic 70
Select an item here, and an extra option will be added to the left-click menu to add text directly to that item. This simply means one less keypress or mouse movement compared to using the "Add selected text to >" popup menu. Uncheck if you do not require this menu item to be present.
.topic 74
Select this to remove from the left-click menu any items which have a schedule set. Such items may not need to be accessed directly from the menu, and hiding them can make non-scheduled items easier to locate. This option applies to all .kt3 files, except any which have password level 4 or 5 set, in which case the setting on the password dialog overrides the one here.
.topic 80
By default, if you add text to any of items N-Z, the KeyText left-click menu will split into 2 columns, avoiding the danger of the menu running off the top or bottom of the screen. However, a small number of Windows 98 users report that the 2-column menu becomes misplaced - a problem linked to specific display drivers. This was added as a workaround for users who experience this problem, who should select this option.
.topic 151
Choose whether you want syntax highlighting turned on in the Edit text items window.
.topic 152
Sets a hotkey with the following effects:
If no KeyText dialog or "Edit text items" window is open, opens the "Edit text items" window at your last edit point.
If a KeyText dialog or "Edit text items window" is open but not in the foreground, brings it to the front.
If the "Edit text items" window is open and at the front, saves and closes it (presses OK).
.topic 15
The hotkeys specified in the Options of your previous .kt3 file list can be kept "active", so that pressing one automatically loads the associated .kt3 file and displays its left-click menu. The right-click menu indicates which hotkeys are active.
.topic 19
Every time a text item is changed, the current .kt3 file is automatically saved. You can choose to keep the pre-change version, which will have the extension .bak.
.topic 71
Options to change the behavior / appearance of KeyText menus.
.topic 17
KeyText provides warnings/reminders before certain actions - deleting a text item, changing the text of a scheduled item, or if Auto-add is left on (and possibly forgotten about). Each warning has the option "Do not remind me again"; if chosen, you can reset these warnings here, so that they appear again.
.topic 79
Set the required action on left double-clicking the KeyText icon. It can be set to start text item A - for convenience, you can store your most frequently used text there. Or use it to open (or close) the KeyText Keypad. However, if you have a slow double-click setting, you may find that the action starts accidentally - especially if you use a second left click to dismiss the left-click menu. Select "None" to disable the double-click feature.
.topic 109
These settings determine what will happen if you start a KeyText item set to Action: Macro with Caps Lock on.
.topic 112
If Caps Lock is on when an Action: Macro item is started, it is left on.
.topic 113
If Caps Lock is on when an Action: Macro item is started, it is turned off. (Prior to v2.1 this was the default.)
.topic 114
If Caps Lock is on when an Action: Macro item is started, it is turned off, and turned on again after the item is finished.
.topic 110
The "right-click anywhere" setting can be set here. If on, the options are to have a right mouse-click, with Shift, Ctrl, or Shift and Ctrl held down, open the "right-click anywhere" menu. Note that if you have more than one KeyText running at the same time, only the first one can be set to display the "right-click anywhere" menu; although if you suspend the setting (right-click menu) on the instance that has it active, it can then be turned on in another instance of KeyText.
.topic 115
If the "right-click anywhere" feature is active, you can set it so that selecting an item in the right-click anywhere or left-click menus with your right mouse button causes the following. Only one can be chosen, so select the one you think will be most useful.
.topic 116
Right-clicking an item is the same as left-clicking it.
.topic 117
Right-clicking an item causes the alternative action. An item set to Macro (or set to default and the default action is Macro) will be pasted, while an item set to Paste (or set to default and the default action is Paste) will be treated as a Macro.
.topic 118
Right-clicking an item runs it, followed by the typing of a Tab. This can be useful in form-filling; right-click the item and after it is typed or pasted the focus will move automatically to the next field.
.topic 119
Right-clicking an item runs it, followed by the typing of a Return. This can be useful for one-line items which you may sometimes want typed or pasted followed by a Return.
.topic 122
Right-clicking an item opens the Edit text items window for the item.
.topic 128
Symbols and accented characters will be typed by simulating the Alt + 0nnn (numeric keypad) method.
.topic 129
Symbols and accented characters which can be typed by a key combination will use that; otherwise Alt + 0nnn method is used.
.topic 22
Click the button to set up or change a password for this .kt3 file.
.topic 23
Switches on password protection.
.topic 24
The password will be asked for once in each instance/session of KeyText. If you Exit KeyText and run it again (or if another computer on a network alters the .kt3 file), the password will be required again.
.topic 25
The password will be asked for every time the .kt3 file is opened, even if you open another .kt3 file, then go back to the first one.
.topic 26
The password will be asked for every time the .kt3 file is opened, and if you have not used KeyText for 1 hour.
.topic 27
The password will be asked for every time the .kt3 file is opened, or on selecting Edit text items, Settings, or Scheduler. Used in conjunction with "Hide scheduled items in left-click menu" below, this allows scheduled items to operate normally, but because they cannot be selected from the left-click menu, means that the password is required to view or edit them.
.topic 123
The password will be asked for on selecting Edit text items, Settings, or Scheduler. Used in conjunction with "Hide scheduled items in left-click menu" below, this allows scheduled items to operate normally, but because they cannot be selected from the left-click menu, means that the password is required to view or edit them.
.topic 77
The password will be asked for every time KeyText is used. This may be useful if you have a lot of (other application) passwords stored in KeyText; choose this option, and you only have to remember one password to access them all.
.topic 78
This option also appears in the Customize dialog, and can be used with the password levels above to give added security to scheduled items. Note that the "hide" option applies to the current .kt3 file only, and overrides the setting in the Customize dialog.
.topic 29
Enter your name here; for convenience, it will be displayed as a text item in the left-click menu.
.topic 30
If you have purchased KeyText, enter your unlock number here - preferably by copying and pasting from your purchase notification.
.topic 31
To specify a hotkey to type or paste your name into any document, click On, then click the hotkey box and press the combination of keys you require.
.topic 153
This is a code related to your hardware configuration, which is used to generate the KeyText 3 unlock code.
.topic 154
Click here to enter the KeyText 3 unlock code.
.topic 37
Enter the title of the required window. If "Match whole of title" is checked, the title must be given in full; if not checked, enter any part of the title required. Case is not significant.
.topic 38
If selected, once KeyText has found a matching window and started the associated item, it will not respond to that particular window again, but wait for a new window with the same title.
.topic 39
If selected, specify a period to wait before checking again. In this case, if the same window is still in the foreground or is brought to the foreground after the specified delay, the item will be started again.
.topic 40
To start the associated item at a specific time or interval, select the required interval in the combo box.
.topic 41
Select the time / date / days you require.
.topic 63
No schedule required.
.topic 67
Click here to set the appropriate boxes to the current date/time.
.topic 88
Click here to clear or set all the checkboxes.
.topic 58
Timer for checking for a specified window - use the up/down arrows to select the number of times per second you want KeyText to check.
.topic 59
Timer for checking for a specified date / time. This timer setting works differently from the above, and specifies the number of seconds between checks.
.topic 120
Normally a new window or dialog would come to the front, and therefore checking the "Foreground window" will find it. Checking "All windows" allows all windows to be monitored, not just the foreground window. Note that if the window is found and is not in the foreground, KeyText will not bring it to the front automatically (use an Activate field if you want that). Also note that if "All windows" is checked in any "On Window" schedule, KeyText continually monitors all windows on your system, which uses more processor time than the "Foreground window" option.
.topic 64
If the window title is not sufficient to accurately identify the window/dialog you want, enter here any fixed (static) text in the window which will identify it better.
.topic 65
Some applications display a window title which changes after loading is complete. For example Notepad may display "Untitled - Notepad" briefly before changing to the name of a text file being opened. Specify a time in tenths of a second; after that gap, KeyText will double-check the title and, if it has changed, not start the associated item.
.topic 76
You can restrict the number of times a scheduled item is started. Choose from 1 to 10 times, and specify the period in which it applies. For example, if an item clicks a "Redial" button, you may wish to restrict it to 5 clicks within any 10 minute period. The period can be from 10 seconds to 8 hours, or choose "session" to restrict the number of times the item is started while the current .kt3 file is open (without time limit).
.topic 60
Typically, text items stored in KeyText are relatively small, and a limit is set to stop them becoming too big - a problem if auto-add is on and forgotten about. You can increase or change the maximum size of an item here.
.topic 89
Add a schedule to the selected item, so that it can be run automatically at set times, or on the appearance of a specified window.
.topic 90
Switch to the Edit text items window for the selected item.
.topic 91
Edit the schedule for the selected item.
.topic 92
Remove the schedule for the selected item.
.topic 93
Change the timer settings for all scheduled items.
.topic 94
Opens the Help file for this dialog.
.topic 95
Click this button to move the selected item up to a higher location; the item above moves down. Alt and the up cursor key does the same.
.topic 96
Click this button to move the selected item down to a lower location; the item below moves up. Alt and the down cursor key does the same.
.topic 97
Copy a list of all the KeyText items to the clipboard - their location (A,B,C etc), their menu text (or first part of the item contents if no menu text is set) and a hotkey, if one is set. You can then paste the list into a Word Processor, format it as you require, and print it out for use as reference.
.topic 98
Makes a shortcut to the selected item on your desktop, where you can double-click the icon to run the item.
.topic 99
Deletes all the content of the selected item, including any schedule associated with it. Changes to (empty).
.topic 100
If the Swap button is pressed - waiting for you to select a second item to swap with - press this button to cancel.
.topic 101
Swap button; if you have 2 items and want to swap their locations select the first, click the Swap button, select the second and click the Swap button again. Alt S also clicks this button. (If you use the arrow buttons to move an item up or down the list, other items change location also to fill the space; with Swap, only the 2 items change location.)
.topic 102
List of your KeyText items, indicating the action to be carried out if one is selected, any hotkey, trigger text, and whether a schedule is set for that item. Select the required item before selecting the Add, Edit or Remove etc. buttons. Note that the list can be sorted by clicking the column headers.
.topic 103
You can suspend all scheduled items by clicking this checkbox - which, if there are scheduled items set, has an equivalent on the right-click menu.
.topic 104
Closes the Organizer window. Note there is no Cancel button; changes are effective immediately.
.topic 141
Opens the Manage global variables window.
.topic 142
Allows you to set names for the various groups of KeyText items (ie, A-Z, 2A-2Z, etc).
.topic 105
Unlike the other options which run at set times, this runs at intervals timed from when KeyText finishes running the item. Note that if the item initiated a lengthy task, say a backup, the interval times from when the task starts, not from when it ends.
.topic 106
Choose this option if you want the item to start for the first time automatically, that is, immediately after it has been set, or a few seconds after KeyText starts.
.topic 107
Choose this option if you do not want the item to start for the first time automatically, but manually. Once you have started it yourself, it will run after that at the interval specified.
.topic 130
List of global variables; click one to view or change its current value and reset status.
.topic 131
Shows the current value of the selected global variable.
.topic 140
Check this box if you want the selected global variable to reset at specified times.
.topic 132
Choose this option to reset the selected variable every time KeyText starts.
.topic 133
Choose this option to reset the selected variable at a set time every day.
.topic 134
Choose this option to reset the selected variable on a set day each week.
.topic 135
Choose this option to reset the selected variable on a set day each month.
.topic 136
The value you want the selected variable to reset to.
.topic 137
Click here to set up a new global variable.
.topic 138
Click here to delete the selected variable.
.topic 143
Click here to prevent or allow changes to global string variables - which is particularly useful if they are being shared by different users over a network. A password is asked for before allowing a change to this setting.
.topic 145
Click here to set the location for the gsv file which stores your global string variables.
.topic 144
Shows the current value assigned to the selected global string variable.
.topic 146
Enter the password that has previously been set to allow/prevent changes to global string variables.
.topic 147
Choose this option to allow changes temporarily (until the end of this session), while keeping it locked to any other users of the same global strings file.
.topic 148
Choose this option to allow changes permanently (or until the next time you select "Prevent changesà"). This option means that other users of the same global strings file can make changes (but cannot, if a password has previously been set, change the change setting).
.topic 149
Selecting this removes the password from the global string variables file - and leaves it available for any user to set a new password.
.topic 150
Click this button to allow changes, and activate any new options; it will only operate if the password is entered correctly.
