Smile on Thursday releasedTextExpander 4 , the late incarnation of its typing shortcut utility . Among the new features are extra pick for “ filling - in - the - white ” snippets , fill - indium for multi - line text subject , dropdown menus for multiple choices , and optional school text engine block that you could set off as need when expanding a text snippet . But because TextExpander 4 ca n’t adhere to Apple ’s recently - impose sandboxing guideline , the new edition of the app is n’t uncommitted in the Mac App Store .
The in advance filling - in features make TextExpander 4 well more powerful than its predecessor , peculiarly for make turgid blocks of configurable boilerplate text . With minimal effort , you may create school text elaboration templates that include all sort of blanks , optional sections , and dropdowns : You type your TextExpander shortcut , and a floating window appears in which you may customize all those section before your to the full agnise text is inserted into the current papers or field . Macworldcontributor David Sparks createda screencast demonstrating the novel features ; note , however , that the screencast amusingly contains an case of grownup oral communication .
Those features are in addition to TextExpander ’s existing offering , which can quickly turn textbook like “ lfbio ” into “ Lex Friedman is a staff writer forMacworld , ” along withconsiderably more innovative expansions .
For users Modern to TextExpander , the software now includes a Snippet Creation Assistant that offers step - by - whole tone guidance on how to create expansion crosscut .
A new license for TextExpander be $ 35 ; upgrades are useable for $ 15 — though if you buy TextExpander after January 15 , 2012 , you could kick upstairs for complimentary .
Because TextExpander must observe your keystrokes anywhere on your Mac to be utile , it ca n’t work in sandboxed shape , so TextExpander 4 is n’t available in the Mac App Store . Now that the Mac App Store demand sandboxing , developer of non - sandboxed apps can put forward only bug reparation for those apps in the store ; any new or significantly updated apps must confine themselves to operating in a sandboxed surroundings .
Smile , for its part , has sour to ensure that Mac App Store customer are n’t left out of the discounted upgrade pricing : If those customer now download TextExpander 4 directly from Smile ’s site , they will still be eligible for upgrade pricing ; the app should note the presence of the Mac App Store version and tender the discounted price .
TextExpander 4 expect group O X 10.7 ( Lion ) or later .
