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If you run into any problems, please report them on the support forum at www.getfingertips.com
Most of the bugs we fixed and new features we introduced in the last few years, were due to questions and reports of users like you on the support forum.
Thanks!
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Fingertips 1.8.6 gamma (September 2010)
Commands
| • | [Feature] Added support for parameters {3} until {9}. |
| • | [Bugfix] Fixed an issue where Fingertips would hang when you tried to execute a command with an invalid Filename/URL, like for instance: "c:\doesnotexist.exe". |
| • | [Bugfix] Fixed an error with percentage-signs in the Filename/URL field (like %{1}%), a leftover of a very old version of Fingertips. |
| • | [Bugfix] Fixed an issue where "c:\data" was not recognized if it was a folder instead of a file. |
| • | [Change] The built-in Fingertips commands Help, Setup and Exit are now available as 'Windows' commands in the Options Dialog. They will be created in your commands database when these command-names do not yet exist. |
Fingertype
| • | [Change] Fingertype will now also process {date}, {_} and {clipboard} tags in Fingertype scripts. |
| • | [Bugfix] Improved some situations in which Fingertype wouldn't work correctly yet. |
| • | [Bugfix] An empty acronym in the Options Dialog would cause all kinds of trouble. Now a message is shown that this situation should be corrected. |
Outlook
| • | [Change] Some Outlook exceptions are now displayed by Fingertips itself in a green box in the right bottom corner of the screen. This is more user friendly for Exchange connection errors, among others. |
User Interface
| • | [Bugfix] Fixed a problem with the New / Setup / Edit button on the command screen, where that button couldn't be accessed with the mouse anymore. (Using the shortcut key Alt+E is always faster than using the mouse.) |
| • | [Change] Updated the Fingertips user interface to look a bit more modern, and fixed quite a few layout problems in the Options Dialog. (With more to come in later versions...) |
| • | Added an 'Expand phrase' button to the third tab of the Options Dialog. |
| • | Made sure that you cannot add a Fingertype acronym with a space in it. |
| • | Added support for Outlook 2010 - display icon. |
| • | [Change] Unfortunately, Twitter has implemented a new security policy that Fingertips cannot support yet. This means that we have disabled Twitter support from Fingertips. But because we hope to solve this in the future, we have still left your Twitter commands available in the database. When you try to execute one of these Twitter commands, Fingertips will display the message "Sorry, Twitter is not supported anymore." |
| • | [Change] For security reasons, Fingertips will remove all Twitter passwords from it's commands database when starting up. Please note that (automatically created) backups can still contain your password. |
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Fingertips 1.7.7 gamma (May 2010)
Development
| • | [Bugfix] Fixed a few small bugs. |
| • | [Change] Added support for UPX by Markus Franz Xaver Johannes Oberhumer, Laszlo Molnar and John F. Reiser. |
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Fingertips 1.7.5 gamma (May 2010)
Development
| • | [Bugfix] Fixed a few small bugs. |
| • | [Change] Changed the startup behaviour, so that when Fingertips is already running, a new instance will not activate the old version anymore, but will also not lead to Fingertips staying on the task bar unnecessary. |
Fingertype
| • | [Change] Added some features to fingertype.dll for further improvement of the Fingertype functionality. |
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Fingertips 1.7.3 gamma (April 2010)
System
| • | [Bugfix] Fixed a problem with the Clipboard History feature, that cause 100% CPU utilization for people using Remote Desktop. |
| • | [Change] When Fingertips encounters a serious problem, you will now get the option to send information about that error to us, so that we should be able to much more easily find and fix problems with Fingertips. |
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Fingertips 1.6.2 gamma (February 2010)
System
| • | [Bugfix] Tried to fix an "Unterminated String Constant" error for Nathan, because he cannot play his computer games now ;-) |
Fingertype
| • | [Bugfix] When using the {|}, the cursor is now positioned on the right place before restoring the clipboard |
| • | [Change] When Fingertype cannot capture or restore the clipboard, it retries several times. We have now set the number of retries to a much lower number, so that it takes less time trying. We favor speed over restoring the clipboard. |
| • | [Change] Limited auto reading the start menu, so that it won't run if the last time it ran is less than 2 minutes ago, to avoid endless loops and system load. |
| • | [Change] Added an option 'Auto-update Favorites/Start Menu when change detected' to the Options Dialog, so you can switch off this behaviour. |
| • | [Change] Added an option to enable/disable the restoration of the clipboard after using Fingertype, so you can switch off this behaviour. |
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Fingertips 1.6.1 gamma (January 2010)
Commands
| • | [Bugfix] You can now again open a folder again by just specifying the foldername as the Filename/URL property of a command. |
| • | [Bugfix] Improved loading from the Start Menu, so that iTunes, Disk Defragmenter and other applications work well. |
| • | Fingertips will now display a message if you enter an unrecognized command. |
| • | Removed the Web Fields items in the Options Dialog - they can't be used with Internet Explorer 7 and 8 anymore anyway. |
| • | Introduced new native commands SETUP, HELP and EXIT (if you already had created commands with these names yourself, they should remain activated). |
System
| • | [Bugfix] Fixed a few memory leaks. Fingertips should now use less memory. |
| • | Improved the loading speed of Fingertips. |
| • | The installer now has an option to automatically start Fingertips when Windows starts. |
| • | The Command Window is now centered on the screen every time it is displayed. This is especially useful when you switch display resolutions. |
| • | Auto startup now doesn't need rights anymore. No special 'right click' instructions necessary anymore. |
| • | Twitter has started to use the phrase "What's happening?" - that is now also shown in the Fingertips Options Dialog. |
| • | Twitter password isn't displayed anymore for security reasons. It is replaced by asterisks or dots. The password is still stored as unencrypted text in the Fingertips database. |
| • | Fingertips now displays the command description in addition to the countdown timer for the number of characters in the Tweet. |
Fingertype
| • | [Bugfix] Empty Fingertype acronyms caused problems. Fixed. |
| • | [Bugfix] Trailing spaces vanished when pasting a phrase in Microsoft Office. Fixed now. |
| • | [Bugfix] Fixed an issue where Fingertips didn't see the difference between a regular key and an accelerator key. |
| • | You can now use the dot (.) to expand a Fingertype acronym as well. |
| • | The Fingertype tab on the Options Dialog will now display a warning if Fingertype isn't enabled on the Miscellaneous tab to avoid confusion for new users. |
| • | The contents of the clipboard will be restored again after pasting a phrase. |
| • | Added a slider in the Options Dialog to set how long Fingertips should wait after typing a Fingertype phrase in the active application, before it restores the clipboard. Set it farther to the left on fast computers, and more to the right on slow ones. |
Outlook
| • | [Bugfix] When creating a new item (e.g. e-mail, task, appointment), it is now brought to the front and gets focus immediately. |
| • | [Bugfix] When selecting an Outlook Folder in the Options Dialog, the Select Folder Dialog is now brought to the foreground properly. |
| • | The prototype command for Outlook 'Find Contact' was removed. If you install Fingertips fresh, you'll see a new command 'f - Find Contact (WDS)'. This one starts the following URL to search for a contact via Windows Desktop Search (you may need to download and install the latest version of Windows Desktop Search yourself): search-ms:query={1} kind:contact If you have upgraded from an older version of Fingertips, you may want to create a new 'f' Command with this exact same URL yourself. |
Internet Explorer
| • | Fingertips now also reads very long favorites, as long as they don't contain spaces, dots or slashes. |
| • | Fingertips now also reads favorites that are stored in a sub folder of the main Favorites folder. |
| • | When you create a new favorite in Internet Explorer, Fingertips will now automatically rebuild it's list with Favorites, so you don't have to press Ctrl+R yourself anymore. |
User Interface
| • | You can now also close Fingertips by pressing Alt+F4 in the Command Window. |
| • | The Options Dialog has a new button, 'Expand', with which you can edit the text of an e-mail command in a bigger dialog. |
Built-in Calculator
| • | Fingertips now has a built-in calculator which recognizes the following characters: +-*/%1234567890(). |
| • | Fingertips will immediately show the result of the calculation. If it cannot evaluate the expression, it will display '???'. |
| • | If Fingertips does not recognize the text as a calculation right away, you may want to put a plus sign (+), a minus sign (-) or an opening brace in front of your calculation. |
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Fingertips 1.5.1 gamma (September 2009)
This version is a minor upgrade. It fixes some bugs.
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Fingertips 1.5 gamma (August 2009)
This version is a minor upgrade. It fixes some bugs.
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Fingertips 1.4 gamma (July 2009)
This version is a minor upgrade. It doesn't contain any new functionality, but we are in the process of stabilizing the source code and fixing some bugs.
Fingertype
| • | The contents of the clipboard will be restored after an acronym will be replaced by the full phrase (via the clipboard). (However: this didn't work well and we removed it again. New try in Fingertips 1.6.) |
Bugs fixed
| • | Whenever a Fingertype script is executed, the contents of the clipboard are not replaced anymore with the script itself. |
| • | You can now expand a Fingertype acronym by pressing the dot (.) on your keyboard. |
| • | Some people have encountered problems with saving the database - especially the Actions database. This is a very difficult bug to fix as it is unclear when and why it happens. In this version we have again taken some steps to try to fix this seriously annoying problem. |
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Fingertips 1.3 gamma
Bugs fixed
| • | Fixed a bug where Fingertips would crash when you executed a URL that was longer than 255 characters. |
| • | Fingertips will now see a double quote (") or a single quote (') as the end of a URL when checking the contents of the clipboard. |
| • | Implemented a better way to display the icon of the default browser. |
| • | Fixed a bug where the Clipboard History database file was not cleared when choosing the 'Clear Clipboard History' menu item. |
| • | Improved Twitter error handling. |
| • | Added two CRLF's after the 'FINGERTIPS ACRONYMS' title in the exported text of the List command. |
| • | We received a few reports from people losing their commands, on Windows XP computers only it seems. This release contains a modification that may fix that problem, but as we cannot test for an issue that happens only ever so often, we are not sure. Please send us an e-mail if you encounter this issue on your computer with this version of Fingertips. |
Database location
| • | You can now specify a different foldername for the settings and the databases using the fingertips.ini file that is located in the same folder as fingertips.exe. This should allow for running Fingertips from a USB stick, putting the files in the AppData folder or any other place where you'd like to store them. The sample fingertips.ini contains some suggestions on how to use this. |
| • | Options dialog |
| • | Upgraded the look and feel of the Options Dialog. |
| • | Added some explanation on the Options Dialog about the Start Menu Items. We received a lot of e-mail about this, and hope that this new functionality is more clear now. |
| • | The List command now respects the 'Hide' checkboxes and the words that are entered in the 'Search' edit fields for both commands and acronyms. |
| • | You can now copy a Start Menu item or an Internet Explorer Favorite. The copy will be a regular application/URL action. |
| • | Added a checkbox 'Hide Start Menu Items' to the Options Dialog. |
| • | Any double quote characters (") will now be stripped from a Filename, before trying to execute an application. |
| • | The 'select Outlook folder' button with the ellipsis (...) has been removed and replaced by another button named 'Folder' for easier access by keyboard. |
| • | The Fingertype list on the Options Dialog will now display a description, even if the description field has not been filled in. It will then show the first characters of the phrase itself. |
Speed
| • | Greatly improved the speed of re-reading the database after modifications have been made in the Options Dialog. |
Parameter handling
| • | New Twitter commands will now automatically have a '{1}' in the What are you doing? box. This {1} will be replaced with the first parameter (the actual text) you type in the Fingertips command window. |
| • | You can now use comma's in Tweets. When an action definition does not contain {2} or {3}, Fingertips will put all parameter content in {1}, including parameter separators (that is a comma by default). |
| • | You can now press the Tab key in the command window to add a parameter separator and a space. This makes it easier to add parameter separators that are not so easily reachable on the keyboard, like the pipe symbol (|) if you'd like to use such a symbol instead of a comma. |
Outlook
| • | Finally found a way to keep the default Outlook signature when creating a new mail! Right now this will only work if you do not modify the Body field from Fingertips. |
| • | Added some code to try to make sure that new Outlook Items would receive focus properly on Windows Vista, instead of showing the flashing button on the taskbar when another application has the focus. Not sure yet if this really does fix it. |
Fingertype
| • | Fingertype now recognizes a dot (.) as the beginning of a new line. Right after the dot you can start typing a Fingertype acronym. |
Miscellaneous
| • | Removed the Windows Taskbar Balloons - as they had some nasty side effects. Replaced the functionality with our own Fingertips balloon. |
| • | Fingertips will now display an error message (in the new balloon) when a file or document cannot be found. |
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Fingertips 1.2.0.29
| • | 'Read Windows Start menu' has been added as an option. |
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Fingertips 1.2 gamma
Commands
| • | The commands database will be automatically upgraded to facilitate some new functionality in Fingertips 1.2. |
| • | Fingertips will now automatically add items from the Start Menu as commands. |
| • | Fingertips displays the icon of the application that you're about to start (not perfect, yet). |
| • | Press Enter in an empty command window and Fingertips will vanish (just like Esc). |
| • | Press Ctrl+F in the command window to search for a command. |
| • | The Options screen now has a List commands button to export the current commands to the clipboard for printing. |
| • | You can now set the WindowState (Normal, Maximized, Minimized) for each command. |
| • | You can now specify that you want a new window to be used for Outlook commands. |
| • | Added {Clipboard} as an alternative to the {1}, {2} and {3} codes. |
Fingertype
| • | The code {_} in a phrase will be replaced with a single space, this may be handy at the end of a phrase. |
| • | The code {date:yyyy-mm-dd} in a phrase will be replaced with the current date, you can specify the format of the date yourself. |
| • | The code {Clipboard} in a phrase will be replaced with the contents of the Windows Clipboard. |
| • | The code {|} in a phrase will be used to position the cursor. |
| • | Press Ctrl+N in the Fingertips command window to quickly add an acronym + phrase. |
| • | Press Ctrl+Shift+F in the command window to search for a Fingertype phrase. |
| • | Added scripting to Fingertype - you can now specify sequences of keys instead of plain text. |
| • | You can use , and ; now to expand an acronym. |
New: Twitter client
| • | Fingertips now has a built-in Twitter client that is great for quickly posting updates to Twitter. |
Backups
| • | Fingertips will now automatically backup your databases at the end of each month in a separate '\My Documents\Fingertips\Backups' folder, apart from the daily backup. |
Options window
| • | This version introduces new way to specify hotkeys. You can now use the Win key if you like. |
Errors
| • | Fingertips will now use Windows taskbar Balloons to notify you of any problems |
Bugs fixed
| • | Windows functions like sleep, hibernate and controlpanel are working again. |
| • | Fingertips cannot access Clipboard errors should be fixed now (but you never know...). |
| • | Improved the interaction with Microsoft Outlook. |
| • | Fixed Unterminated String Constant error when pasting a long URL. |
| • | Less problems with sudden focus switches, which could result in accidentally typing over the current command. |
| • | 'Cannot perform this operation on a closed dataset.' error should be fixed. And if Fingertips detects a 0 Kb database, it will ask to replace. the offending file with a backup copy automatically. |