TextSoap Agent Release Notes
TextSoap Agent is ready for macOS 13 (Ventura). Supports macOS 10.11.
9.2.7 (2599)
- Fixed crash under specific conditions in AppleScript command to clean a file.
9.2.6 (2598)
- Addressed potential crash in accessibility test.
9.2.5 (2595)
- New: Launching app a second time will bring up Preferences. Useful when hide dock icon is selected.
- cleanFile command adds optional “destFolder”. If no dest specified, replaces source.
- Bug fixes.
9.2.4 (2584)
- Updated Preferences to Settings for macOS 13.
- Bug fixes.
9.2.3 (2581)
- New: Preference option lets you control whether Agent attempts to clean all text when no selection within an app.
- Fixed: Service items not working. Recent versions of macOS appear to ignore dynamic service items for some apps.
- To address, textsoapAgent now makes “Apply TextSoap Cleaner” a permanent service item.
- Option to toggle it was removed from Services preferences.
- Fixed: Incorrect drawing if popover becomes very wide.
- Fixed: Would not always copy from app when “Leave Results on Clipboard” option selected.
9.2.2 (2578)
- Fixed: Hot key to display popover could cause a hang.
- Fixed: TextSoap Watcher helper supports macOS 10.11 or later.
9.2 (2576)
- New: One or two column layout option (in General preferences)
- New: Resizable popover.
- New: Added TextSoap Watcher option (available in Preferences > Advanced)
- Logs TextSoap-related launches to help debug Services, Global Shortcut issues. Can help track down unexpected copies of app unintentially launching, causing various issues with previously mentioned functionality.
- To launch helper app, go to Preferences > Advanced and select TextSoap Watcher. New helper app watches for and logs any TextSoap-related launches while open.
- Fixed: Properly reads Shift / Option cleaning modifiers when clicking on icon, ignores for hotkeys.
- Fixed: Typo in Advanced preferences.
9.1 (2570)
- New: Cleaning is now done exclusively through keyboard drivers using cmd-C, cmd-V.
- Better support for Electron-based apps.
- Supports apps using cmd-C, cmd-V, cmd-A to copy/paste/select text.
- New: Link to TextSoap 8, Advanced Preference option
- Replaces textsoap8Agent, textsoap8Menu.
- New: Supports macOS 10.11 (for Link to TextSoap 8 option)
- Note: Some features may not be available on older versions of macOS.
- New: Keyboard driver will attempt Select All/Copy if initial Copy within an app does not work.
- New: Brought back support for showing group menu for hotkeys.
- New: Support for additional keyboard layouts (like Dvorak).
- Fixed: Can now read older shared group data format.
- Fixed: Agent now properly adopts user preference for check beta releases.
- Fixed: Displaying popover using global shortcut always defaults to specified cleaning behavior (apply within app).
- Fixed: Prevents potential crash if shared data wasn’t found from main app.
- Fixed: Popover group list now reflects group changes.
9.0.4 (2546)
- Fixed: Preference > App Control changes were not properly updated.
9.0.2 (2544)
- Fixed: Properly remove dynamic service items when “Install Custom Service items..” is unchecked.
- Fixed: Indicator when group is empty or does not contain any valid items in Services panel.
- Fixed: textsoapAgent now incorporates cleanFile AppleScript command.
9.0.1 (2541)
- Fixed: Fixed sizing issue with Global Shortcuts Preferences
- Fixed: Removed spacer in prefs toolbar, which system accidentally highlights
9.0
What’s New
New textsoapAgent: a separately downloaded app works with all variants of main TextSoap app. A new mechanisms provides a more robust and efficient interaction between agent and the main app for significantly better cleaning performance.
- General
- Apple Silicon support
- Dark mode support
- Optionally preserves clipboard content when cleaning
- Support for Chrome, Brave, and VS Code
- Option to drive user-specified apps with keyboard
- TextSoap Menu
- New popup display
- Searchable cleaner list
- Options to determine how to proceed with processed text
- clean within the current app
- clean clipboard contents
- copy from current app, leave results on the clipboard
- Global Hot Keys
- Trigger single cleaner action
- Display list of cleaners from custom group
- AppleScripting
- Automate text cleaning with AppleScript support
- macOS (OS X) Services
- Services support has been reworked
- Optional standard service item (presenting dialog to select cleaner)
- Customizable cleaner service items based on custom group