Here a new version which may at least be a bit faster and look better.

//edit: 0.00968 should fix a problem with screensavers

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as SecondBar got featured on Lifehacker today (thank you!!) and thus many people came here, now a few words to SecondBar:

I know there are a lot of things that don’t work good and I didn’t work on it for quite a while because of the success of BetterTouchTool and limited time… A few days ago I began working on SecondBar again and I hope to release a updated version tonight. Unfortunately it will never be possible to support all apps perfectly because apps like adobe photoshop don’t support the accessibility api very well and make it impossible to fetch the needed data or slow the process down extremely which causes the menu in SecondBar to behave very slowly.

A solution I thought about was to allow you to create own menus for programs which are not supported well. So you could define menu items and then define actions those menu items should trigger. So e.g. you add a Menu “Drawing” and add various menu items to it like “Add Circle” and then assign a shortcut this menu item should trigger like “ctrl + cmd + c” or something.  Do you think this could be useful for you? (You can assign shortcuts to every MenuItem in every program you use in the System Preferences =>Keyboard => shortcuts)

Also I hope to add the possibility to have multiple SecondBars (for systems with more than two monitors) soon.

//edit: here a first bugfix release download & use at your own risk It’s currently not on autoupdate because it’s the first version after a long time and maybe I missed some things.

These features will take at least one week to program so be patient but I hope this will be a good solution.

thanks for all your comments.

The two finger tab has some bugs and doesn’t work perfect yet. I’ll fix this today. Also I’ll add something like a two finger click. Also it seems the three finger click is a bit broken, so just stay with the previous version until the evening.
Now I have to do some “real” work so wait until the evening (GMT+1)

This version introduces the first step into a new user interface… atm it just puts the “advanced” prefs in a separate tab but in future trackpad and magic mouse gestures etc will be in own tabs too.

I’m using this for the interface: http://www.mere-mortal-software.com/blog/details.php?d=2007-03-11 so thanks to Dave Batton!

Additionally you can now select parts of the surface that are ignored, atm they are just ignored for two finger tap and single finger tap but I’ll add this for everything.

//edit 0.33 => two finger tap shouldn’t be triggered after swiping anymore
//edit 0.331 => scrolling with more than one finger down allowed if no custom up / down gestures are set

Sorry download link removed because this version sucks Please read the last few posts before using

Todo for tomorrow:

1. make seperate swipe left / two finger swipe left and right for touchpad and magic mouse (atm they are the same)
2. make seperate three finger click for magic mouse and touchpad
3. scrolling behavior
4. debug debug debug….
5. add new features
   

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Important Note:
There seem to be some programs that are not compatible with BTT and may make your system freeze (in combination with BTT). I’ll add a list of those to the documentation soon. These programs have in common that they need the Accessibility API (access for assistive devices) enabled (but not all programs that need this API can cause crashes).
One program I know about yet is TypeIt4Me

I’ll try to find a solution to this asap.

To clear things up: Macbooks without mutitouch touchpads are not supported. Still, if you connect a magic mouse to your “old” macbook you can configure the mouse with BTT (therefore the selection of your mactype)

In very rare conditions every version of BetterTouchTool (in combination with other programs you have installed and may use an interfering technique) could cause your system to freeze so you’d have to restart. (From ~10 000 downloads 3 -4 user reported a freeze but still this is an important issue)
This version brings a new global shortcut which you should remember.

CTRL+ALT+CMD + Q

this key combo quits BetterTouchTool immediately and should work even if your system froze. After hitting this combo everything should work again.

Please download here but still, use at your own risk

Download here, use on your own risk

//please don’t use btt if you do important work atm. I’ll release a version which can’t crash your system soon.

here a last version which should hinder the three finger tap from triggering (at least a bit) after executing a three finger swipe on the magic mouse.

Only for people who want to test. Use on your own risk, this is a total nightly build for productive use try 0.316/0.317)

//edit: okay this is now really the last

//reading your comments this version seems to work okay.  Here again short summary of things this version does:

1. fixes bug which caused global gestures to stop working
2. middleclick behavior has changed (if you middleclick the click “holds” until you release your fingers from pressing). If you don’t want this behavior use cmd+click, it does basically the same like a middleclick
3. fixed many little things.
4. 3 finger click is working on the touchpad too (if you set the one for the magic mouse, atm there is no seperate one for the touchpad)

Today I’ll focus on this:

1. Performance
2. Better scrolling behavior of the magic mouse using BTT (do not disable 2&3 finger scrolling when swipes for the magic mouse are set)

Download 0.325

I’m back from Stockholm (really a great city!). So expect new version with many bugfixes today.