Filter Tab

Upgrading to PTHPasteboard PRO gives you the ability to use Filters. When you paste through a Filter the contents of the Pasteboard Item are modified on the fly. There are dozens of filters available that perform actions such as changing text to upper case, regular expression based find and replace, line wrapping and much more.

Filter Types

There are two types of Filters normal and sequential. A normal Filter takes some input from a Pasteboard Item and pastes it to whatever application you are working on. A sequential filter is a series of normal filters that work on the Pasteboard Item one at a time. You use sequential filters to tie normal filters together, for example you can create a sequential filter that strips all leading and trailing white space from a line, then encodes any special characters into HTML entities and finally quotes each line with <li> and </li>.

Filter Organization

Filters are organized in a menu fashion. You can use the Filter Tab to create as many filters as you want and organize them within submenus however you see fit.

Tip:

Sequential Filters are differentiated from Menus in the Filter Table View with italicized text.

Creating a normal Filter

Click on the "+" button on the lower left of the Filter Tab
Select "Add Filter"
A "Plain Text" filter will be created for you and will be named "Filter ???"
Double click on the newly created Filter to rename it
Drag and Drop the Filter item to whatever position you want
Use the pop up button on the top right portion of the Filter Tab to choose which Filter you want to use
If needed configure any appropriate settings for your Filter, if you need help on what the Filter does hit the "?" help button at the lower right of the window

Creating a sequential Filter

Click on the "+" button on the lower left of the Filter Tab
Select "Add Sequential Filter"
A "Sequential" filter will be created for you and will be named "Sequential Filter ???"
Double click on the newly created Filter to rename it
Drag and Drop the Filter item to whatever position you want
Create normal Filters and drag and drop them on to the sequential Filter to tie them together

Creating a menu

Click on the "+" button on the lower left of the Filter Tab
Select "Add Menu"
A new menu will be created for you and will be named "Menu ???"
Double click on the newly created Filter to rename it
Drag and Drop the menu to whatever position you want
You can now add any normal Filters, sequential Filters or even more Menus to the menu by dragging and dropping

Deleting a filter or menu

Select the Filters and/or Menus that you want to delete
Click on the "-" button on the lower left of the Filter Tab