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Video: Setting up KeePass Auto Type Options for Advanced Usage

Eric edited this page Jun 23, 2015 · 1 revision

Video for Configuring KeePass to Continue Auto-Typing When the Window Title Changes

This is a video which goes through the process for setting up KeePass to allow auto-type commands to continue even if the title of the window changes, this is necessary if enable "Show field attributes when a text input field has focus?". You can watch the video at YouTube.

Thumbnail from Video on YouTube

I have taken the time to fully caption this video. If English is not your native language you can translate from the caption file below in SubStation Alpha format. If you make a full translation or find an error, please feel free to submit an issue.


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Dialogue: Marked=0,0:00:05.43,0:00:09.51,Default,NTP,0000,0000,0000,!Effect,From the main KeePass window go to the "Tools" menu and click on "Options"
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:00:09.71,0:00:13.23,Default,NTP,0000,0000,0000,!Effect,When the Options screen pops up, select the "Advanced" tab
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:00:13.44,0:00:16.34,Default,NTP,0000,0000,0000,!Effect,In the "Advanced" tab scroll down to the "Auto-Type" section
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:00:16.87,0:00:23.68,Default,NTP,0000,0000,0000,!Effect,The last option in this section is "Cancel auto-type when the target window title changes"
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:00:24.98,0:00:30.10,Default,NTP,0000,0000,0000,!Effect,Ensure that the checkbox is unchecked, we do not want auto-type to be canceled when the title changes
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:00:31.10,0:00:36.50,Default,NTP,0000,0000,0000,!Effect,When you enable the Add-on option "Show field attributes when a text input field has focus?"
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:00:36.80,0:00:40.80,Default,NTP,0000,0000,0000,!Effect,the window's title will change each time you switch to a new field
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:00:41.20,0:00:43.90,Default,NTP,0000,0000,0000,!Effect,If you do not uncheck this option,
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:00:44.10,0:00:46.70,Default,NTP,0000,0000,0000,!Effect,then once your auto-type rule types a <Tab>
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:00:47.00,0:00:49.30,Default,NTP,0000,0000,0000,!Effect,the auto-type will stop in the middle
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:00:49.60,0:00:54.10,Default,NTP,0000,0000,0000,!Effect,because switching to the next input field will result in the Window's title changing
Dialogue: Marked=0,0:00:58.10,0:01:01.00,Default,NTP,0000,0000,0000,!Effect,You can learn more by visiting the project wiki