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v3.0版本新功能

Version 3.0: Note: Now requires OS X 10.9 or later

General Improvements

Migration assistant to help transfer all settings from Alfred 2 to Alfred 3

Move Alfred to OS X 10.9+ allowing Alfred to use newer OS X technologies

Added version number into OS X status bar hat menu

⌘W to close the Alfred window at any point

The LC_CTYPE environment variable is now set to en_US.UTF-8 by default

Can be overridden per workflow in the new Workflow Variables

Migrate Alfred's threading to GCD / Thread Pooling for higher performance

Update selection list actioning framework to support actions when no items are visible (i.e. file navigation or iTunes transport)

Removed native support for Growl (workflows can still use growlnotify if required)

Updated help tab with link to Getting Started guide

Updated Alfred's auto updater

Improved, higher performance image caching

Overhauled keyboard handling, now aware of DVORAK-QWERTY

Higher performance key caching when switching keyboards

Improved knowledge / learning with faster latching to keyword based items such as workflows

Workflows

Overhaul to the workflow architecture

Useful for input chaining to prevent window from closing / flickering

Now allows arbitrary object layout and connection

Chaining of objects of all types, including input objects

Dynamic and scriptable workflow object configuration using JSON

Ability to veto Alfred's window from closing in the connection configuration

Improved script task handling, particularly in regards to stderr handling

Placeholder titles are no longer required fields for filter inputs for better chaining / direct use flexibility

Version number added to workflow (variables) config, shown in description field when editing a workflow

Brand new Workflow editor

Insert objects before or after an object, with automatic reconfiguration of connections

Replace a selected object with a different object without losing its connections

Removes the need to delete and re-add object when reusing

Strip pasted hotkey config only when necessary

Assign colours to objects

New object notes to clearly annotate your workflows

Better visual clarity of connections

Multi selection / reorganisation of objects

Intelligent cut, copy and paste of multiple objects

Copy and paste configuration between matching objects

Add objects using right-click on the canvas at the location for editing

Standardise the ⌘S shortcut for saving workflow configuration sheets

Use arrow keys to move selected objects around the canvas (+shift for moving further)

New "Open Workflow folder in Finder" button in every workflow configuration sheet, next to Save / Cancel buttons

New "Open in Terminal" option on workflows popup menu

Canvas zooming, contextually zooming on selected items. Also, supports Apple trackpad pinch to zoom gesture.

You can now search by creator in the workflow list (at least the first name needs to be typed to match)

Remember canvas location and zoom within a session (for e.g. switching between workflows / easier copy and paste)

Improved Debugging

Make filtering debug output by selected object a selectable option

Debug logging is now clearer with colours

Timestamp added into debugger

New alfred_debug=1 environment variable on scripts when the Alfred debugger is visible in preferences

Close button added to debug view

Improved workflow import

Variables are merged with variables a user may have changed or added

Keywords are not migrated if the new version starts with a { as this assumes it contains a variable

Now shows the workflow readme before importing

When updating, option to not migrate settings, which helps 'reset' a workflow when importing.

Intelligent workflow import when updating a workflow, migrating keywords, variables and hotkeys

New Workflow objects

Triggers

Inputs

Now shows the hotkey mode to the right hand side: simulate mod release, wait for mod release, pass through mods

Hotkey

Default environment variables set per workflow configuration sheet

{var:varname} placeholders can be used in workflow object configuration text fields

Can be set dynamically throughout a workflow

Workflow variables are set as environment variables when running script objects

Variable values are migrated when upgrading a workflow

Readme moved to variables configuration for better contextual explanation of workflow setup

The theme selected result background colour is now set as a script environment variable

Using Argument and Variable utility

Using JSON (JSON utility, or JSON output from a script)

Simple configuration of items into Alfred's results

Dictionary Filter

Actions

Outputs

Configure the title, subtitle, argument and icon for each result

Intelligent inheritance of icon (workflow -> object -> item)

Batch import CSV of items into list configuration for easy mass editing

Access OS X's word lookup with a workflow object

Configurable language settings

New ability to directly run external scripts of any type without the need to bootstrap

Simplified query argument processing, allowing use of argv in place of {query} replacement

When using argv, file lists (e.g. from an Action trigger) are passed as separate arguments

Now aware of relative paths, searches first in workflow's own folder, then the workflow's data folder

The browsed path is now correctly passed out to the connected objects

Now aware of relative paths, searches first in workflow's own folder, then the workflow's data folder

Now defaults the search URL to {query} to work for passed in URLs

Significantly improved URL encoding (see "Web Searches" section of change log)

Offers new text field to manually enter static file to open

If not absolute path, treats file as relative to workflow

If static file defined, this is now correctly passed out to the connected objects

Now aware of relative paths, searches first in workflow's own folder, then the workflow's data folder

Easier to see full file path of dropped file

Allows for filename variable replacement

Allows for opening of a file which may not yet exist

Open File

Open URL

Reveal File in Finder

Browse in Alfred

Run Script

Now configurable large type text with query and variable substitution, consistent with other output objects

Option to mark the copied data as transient, preventing it from appearing in clipboard history apps (including Alfred)

Copy to Clipboard

Large Type

Updated script output format for adding results into Alfred

New ability to directly run external scripts of any type without the need to bootstrap

Simplified query argument processing, allowing use of argv in place of {query} replacement

New option for Alfred to filter the returned results

More result flexibility including separate control of validity, subtext and argument for modifiers

New 'quicklookurl' XML tag / JSON property to override and provide a custom Quick Look for a result

New JSON feedback format, easier to read and configure

Updated XML feedback format for new mod features

Legacy support for Alfred 2 XML format

When using argv, file lists (e.g. from an Action trigger) are passed as separate arguments

Script is run once, Alfred subsequently filters as user types - extreme performance

Mod results no longer need a configured mod output connection, they pass out default connection instead

Script Filter

List Filter

Workflow environment variables

Write Text File

Write the input to the specified text file

Option to skip, overwrite or append if file already exists

Option to create intermediate folders before writing file

File can be written to absolute path, or relatively to workflow data folder or workflow folder itself

Argument and Variables

JSON Config

Junction

Filter

Delay

Transform

Replace

Debug

Modify or switch the current input argument being passed through the workflow

Insert or update new variables into the workflow stream

Updated argument / variable replacement

Dynamic configuration of connected objects

Workflow variable insertion / configuration

Modify the flow of data through Alfred allowing for:

Button to tidy the written JSON

Merge connections, multiple in and out

Also nice for keeping a workflow's connections tidy

Only continue if input matches / does not match string or regex

Schedule a workflow stream to continue execution after specified number of seconds

Yields execution back to workflow

Dynamic icon in workflow editor to hint specified seconds

Trim, upper, lower, camel, reverse, strip diacritics, strip non-alpha

Replace string / regex within input query with specified string

Mode for "empty input" allowing for defaulting of arguments

Write text out to the Alfred workflow debugger

Sensible default which shows input and all variables

Debug info shown with default 'interesting information' selected in debugger

Option to clear the debug log, useful for debug objects at beginning of workflow stream

Utilities

Outputs

Updated Workflow objects

Clipboard History and Snippets

Multimedia Clipboard

Images

File Lists

Hex Colours

Vastly improved Snippets with Auto Expansion

maintains previous clipboard contents when using auto expansion

Automatic snippet expansion into any OS X text field via the snippet's keyword

cmd+s on a clipboard item in Alfred's clipboard history to quickly save snippet from a clipboard entry

Snippet collections

Export and Import collections

Move snippets between collections

New JSON file format

Hotkey directly to snippets, toggle between clipboard and snippets viewers with respective hotkeys

Snippets are no longer copied into clipboard history on use

When adding a snippet into Alfred Remote, popup menu shows snippet collection hierarchy

New option to "Load More" at bottom of clipboard history list to load next batch of history

Helps find clipboard history data if you can't remember a part of it for searching

Improved clipboard history performance, uses practically zero CPU

Items pasted out of Alfred are marked as Alfred clipboard data; clipboard isn't re-processed by Alfred

Added new option to move items to top of list when used from clipboard history (on by default as per v2 behaviour)

Improved clipboard fast append matching algorithm

Arbitrary date formatting with the {date:FORMAT} placeholder (using Unicode Technical Standard #35)

When clearing the clipboard database, the database is now deleted then recreated

Theming and Appearance

New Alfred 3 default themes

Brand new theme editor

Intuitive point and drag to change sizes, click for colour, right click for fonts

Font mode to drag up/down through default fonts

Change between theme mode and font mode with T and F

Share themes on alfredapp.com directly from the theme editor

Easy to read JSON file format

When creating a new theme with the + button, base it on the default theme. Use duplicate theme menu to duplicate selected

Use System font by default throughout Alfred (in views where theme fonts aren't applicable, e.g. Clipboard History preview)

Arbitrary font selection from all installed fonts

Undo / Redo support in the theme editor

Intelligent shadow invalidation for more reliable theme transparency

Improved logic on vertical alignment of fonts in the search field paving the way for non-standard 3rd party fonts

Imports v2 Theme URLs and migrates theme to v3 (e.g. from Packal)

File Search and Navigation

Improved file actions (copy/move/delete) with success / fail notifications

Abbreviate file path subtext (e.g. ~/ instead of /Users/andrew/)

Abbreviate the iCloud Drive subtext file paths (e.g. iCloud Drive/Pages/document1.doc)

Bug Fix: When browsing an empty folder and backspacing on the folder (e.g. ~/Applications/) that it jumps up a folder.

Improved layout for secondary views (FS Navigation / actions panel etc) with larger preview

Now uses Quick Look panel to show preview of document

Show full filename at bottom of FS Navigation view

In areas where you configure user defined file types (default results, file filter workflow object), prefix type with + to search type tree

Fix when typing a path into Alfred e.g. /Applications, then selecting all and typing a string (e.g. 'andrew')

Now correctly returns to the default results instead of staying in the FS navigation mode with no results

e.g. "public.folder" searches kMDItemContentType, "+public.directory" searches kMDItemContentTypeTree

System Commands

New Sleep Displays command with keyword "sleepdisplays", to sleep displays

Also added for Alfred Remote

Moved to using pmset for sleep command and new display sleep command

Make the default eject scope "Local Mounted Volumes"

Better organised "System Commands" Alfred Remote example page with new "Sleep Displays" command

Contacts Integration

More intelligent height truncation for long contact cards

Updated Microsoft Outlook email attachment support

Web Searches

Make Amazon searcher https by default

Updated Bing to use https and .com by default due to certificate inconsistency

Updated Wunderground to be use https by default

Added new default web search for Pinterest

Unified custom web search sheet save button to use cmd+s

Significantly improved URL encoding

Add intelligent {query} encoding based on wether it's a URL parameter, or part of the URL string.

Allow for flexible space encoding in {query}, e.g. - _ + /

Applies to Custom Searches, Open URL workflow object and Remote Open URL

Accessibility

Improved Accessibility

Alfred can now read the selected result using Voice Over

Fixes

Ensure that the correct snippet is expanded when there is snippet keyword ambiguity e.g. !key !!key !!!key

Fix Alfred custom search import from URL, URL encode/decode spaces string when s

Fix System Light font in default themes (was incorrectly rendering normal font for certain items)

Render connections under object notes in the workflow editor

Ensure that the correct icon is shown for fixed and chained workflow inputs, using the object icon first, and falling back on the workflow icon.

Hide Alfred when using cmd+, to show preferences. Gives nicer behaviour when prefs already active.