Actiona Changelog

Newer versions: https://github.com/Jmgr/actiona/blob/main/CHANGELOG

• Added a keyboard key condition action that allows checking or waiting for a particular key combination to be pressed
• Added a text to speech action that uses the operating system's voice synthesis capabilities
• Click action: added an option to reset the cursor position to its former position after the action has finished executing
• DataInput action: the output variable now contains an empty string if the user cancels the data input dialog

• Added filters allowing to find an action within the script or within the list of available actions
• Added an action heat map that allows viewing the execution count and time spent per action (available after the first script execution)
• Improved program loading times
• Fixed missing script line numbers (regression from previous version)
• Fixed a slowdown when copy and pasting multiple actions within a big script
• Fixed a possible bug on the console when running a script for longer than a day
• Fixed a few minor bugs

• Fixed a slowdown occurring when editing an action within a big script
• Fixed non-translated buttons
• Fixed various memory leaks
• Windows: now using Qt 5.6 to build official binaries, removed Webkit web browser but reduced installer and SFX

• Windows installer: fixed missing .dll files used by SQL drivers (like MySQL)

• Windows: fixed compatibility with Windows 10
• Send mail action: fixed a bug where no exception was thrown when an error occurred when sending the e-mail
• Click action: fixed not specifying a position would move the mouse cursor to the upper-left screen position
• Procedures: fixed a bug where actions were reset when a procedure ends
• Time condition action: fixed the "if after" and "if before" labels not being intuitive (replaced by "if in the future" and "if in the past")
• Multi data input action: fixed stretching occurring at the wrong place
• Data input action: fixed default value being capped at 99
• Windows: fixed Actiona still writing an entry into the registry when starting with the –portable parameter

• Linux: added a warning when starting Actiona on a non-X11 session

• Windows: fixed mouse and keyboard simulation on some applications (started with admin privileges)

• fixed loadUI and include functions not using the current script or code filename directory as working directory
• added the Execution.filename readonly property, containing the current script or code filename
• ActionPackSystem, Debian/Ubuntu/…: fixed a crash when using the System object
• ActionPackData: fixed crash when trying to read a non-existing key

• Windows installer: fixed setup of PATH environment variable and removal when uninstalling

• Windows: fixed click simulation failures in some cases
• fixed a crash when canceling a script execution while a key was being pressed
• fixed SFX scripts not being run when a local installation of Actiona was required

• Windows: fixed keyboard shortcuts not working
• Debian/Ubuntu/…: fixed a bug preventing the main window to be displayed on recent distribution versions
• fixed a crash when right-clicking a "go to a line" exception field
• fixed a bug preventing the selection of a pixel on the screen when the Actiona window was on top of it
• fixed a bug where the save script progress dialog would stay open when exporting an SFX script

• fixed not being able to display the value of an array variable in a text field
• fixed console output by way of code not being displayed until after a call to sleep() or pause()
• added "pretty printing" of Array and Object

• renamed Actionaz to Actiona
• now using Qt5 instead of Qt4
• added a SendMail action
• ActionDataInput: added editor type (line, multiline or password)
• fixed DataInput & MultiDataInput not opening URLS in their question fields
• fixed a crash when using the ChooseWindow button
• WriteIniFile: fixed a bug that prevented the creation of new ini files
• Linux: fixed missing F1-F35 keys in the KeyMapper
• Windows: added a "no unicode character" option to the WriteText action
• Windows: fixed keyboard keys not being simulated on some applications

• added a language change setting
• enabled secure connections for checking Internet connectivity, fetching update information and downloading new versions
• now checking if the SFX files are available to enable/disable the export SFX feature
• fixed a bug preventing saving the values of some settings (caused by the Qt5 migration): users will see those settings reset to their default values
• fixed a bug in localized tab names in action dialogs
• removed unused context help button on dialogs

• added a Mail object
• added ProcessHandle::parentId()
• added a MultilineText option to the InputDialog object
• added Console.clear()
• Image: added the pixels() and pixelData() methods to retreive the pixel values at once

• Added in-script resources
• Added a screen capture wizard
• Added the insertion of variables & resources in the code editor
• Added a percent positioning to the position parameter
• Corrected some bugs in variable insertion in parameters
• Variable condition: added a Contains operation allowing to test for the presence of a string in a string list
• Variable condition: corrected the comparison of values, allowing for more intuitive comparisons
• Cursor path: added a mouse button that can be pressed during the action execution

• Script: added the callProcedure function
• SQL: corrected a bug that ran a SQL request two times when using exec() with a non-prepared request

• Added a button to insert detected variables into parameter fields
• Added a more explicit error message when a list field is empty
• Fixed a bug when opening a script that had been created using a previous version of Actionaz: new action parameters did not have default values
• Corrected a bug that prevented using the Code Error exception to skip the current action or go to a line of the script
• Pixel Color: added an offset to the position to be checked
• Read INI File: added reading the whole file at once
• Read INI File: corrected a bug that froze the execution when trying to read a file with an empty filename
• Find Image: added a field allowing to retrieve the confidence value
• Find Image: added a field to choose which matching method to use
• Find Image: added a delay between two searches when waiting
• Find Image: added two conditions actions "if found" and "if not found"
• Find Image: removed the "Image not found" exception, previous scripts will be automatically upgraded to use the "if found" and "if not found" parameters
• Find Image: search can now be done in multiple windows if they satisfy the search criterion
• Find Image: renamed "Down pyramids" to "Downsampling"
• Find Image: fixed a bug that prevented searching in some screens when using a multiple screen configuration
• Find Image: fixed a bug that prevented using an absolute position when searching within a window

• Script: added the line attribute
• Image: added the Image.takeScreenshotUsingScreenIndex function that allows taking screenshots using a screen index
• Image: added a parameter to the findSubImage functions to choose which matching method to use
• Image: fixed a bug that prevented searching in some screens when using a multiple screen configuration
• Image: fixed a bug in the Image.takeScreenshot function that took only a screenshot of the main screen when using a multiple screen configuration

• Fixed a regression that caused a memory leak and a crash after a repeated use of the Find Image action

• Fixed a bug that caused a memory leak and a crash after a repeated use of Image.findSubImage and similar

• Fixed a bug in the in-text variable insertions that prevented using backslashes

• Fixed a bug where pause before and after each action were not reset after creating a new script
• Fixed a bug that prevented the translation of the parameters usage

• Added a position offset in the Click, Move cursor and Cursor path
• Added an action to read environment variables
• Upgraded the in-text variable insertions to allow inserting table elements
• Fixed a bug in the Command action that prevented getting the standard output and standard error texts
• Fixed a bug that prevented using Date objects in the Time Condition action
• Fixed a bug in the Find image action & code that could crash the program in certain cases

• Added the File.exists() function

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