Textify
Have you ever wanted to copy some text from a dialog box which doesn’t provide such functionality?
Textify was created to solve this problem: you can point your mouse over the text, click on the mouse shortcut (Shift + Middle click by default), and get a selectable view of the text.
Download
textify_setup.exe (593.16 kB, changelog)
Latest version: v1.10.4
Source code
https://github.com/m417z/Textify
Demonstration
Translations
If you’d like to translate Textify to your language, please refer to this comment.
Thanks for making this amazing tool!
Is it possible to make it activate automatically by a double click on a dialog box, or ctrl c, instead of memorizing another key combo? Thanks in advance.
You’re welcome. Currently there’s no such option and it’s not planned.
Beware if you load a web page that has a lot of structured text, textify may grind your browser (and your whole OS) to a stuttering halt.
I thought it was Chrome’s fault until I started seeing it in Firefox and other browsers as well. It turned out that Textify was freaking out trying to parse all that text.
If you’re ever using Chrome on a page and your mouse starts moving slower and slower, and you think you’re dying, just exit Textify and see if that clears it up.
No disrespect to Textify, it’s a useful app. Just doesn’t love very long web pages.
You know, I noticed that on some web pages Chrome Browser (and others) will just grind my whole computer to a halt (even the mouse will stutter and stop).
I thought it was Textify (see my post above), but nowadays I’m starting to think that Textify was framed, and the issue was actually Google Drive for Desktop.
For some reason the web page slowdown only seems to happen when I’m running Google Drive for Desktop. If I exit that app, Chrome (and other browsers) speed up again.
Sorry, Textify, if that wasn’t you. Anyone else have similar experience with Google Drive for Desktop (on Windows, in my case Windows 11).
Thanks!
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