Three finger tap on MacBook and Magic Mouse

Nov 09

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Hi everybody,

try this on your own risk! I don’t know if it will work with 10.5.x, only tested on Snow Leopard

This version adds the possibility for recognizing a custom three finger tap on Macbook AND Magic Mouse. If you didn’t set a custom gesture shortcut the default for the three finger tap is a middle click (because this is SO great in firefox / safari)
I think this will only work on Snow Leopard:

Download Alpha Version 0.26

//Update: now four finger swipes can be changed! In order to do this you have to deactivate the standard four finger swipe actions in the system preferences!!

//Note: Magic Mouse must be connected before you start BetterTouchTool!

TODO:

add two finger tap to magic mouse
tap2click for magic mouse
add new cool gestures to touchpad
create a better interface
create something like a whitelist for apps that should always do the apple defined gesture shortcuts even if global shortcuts are set
Feature requests very welcome

Please report if this works (would be so great)!

You can get more information on how this works here: http://www.steike.com/code/multitouch/
I think I’ll release my code in a few days.

written by Andreas Hegenberg

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Mittlere Maustaste an Apple Magic Mouse aktivieren Says:
November 9th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
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6 Responses to “Three finger tap on MacBook and Magic Mouse”

1. Andrew Says:
November 9th, 2009 at 6:42 am
This is working without issues on Snow Leopard. I have found that it work as expected, as with every other gesture, and it does not seem to break any other keybinding.
2. Tool8 Says:
November 9th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
Very nice, but i’d like to see two finger tap and no “middle click” when you put three fingers on the mouse and hold it for longer than one or two seconds, at least as an option.
3. Kiran Wagle Says:
November 11th, 2009 at 12:27 am
“If you didn’t set a custom gesture shortcut the default for the three finger tap is a middle click (because this is SO great in firefox / safari)”

It’s not so great here. I get the “Mighty Mouse” middle-click Expose thing (the one that happens when you click the little ball) and can’t set anything but a key command combination in the prefs for Safari.

What I really want to do is override the Apple gestures on a per-app basis, since right-click is worthless to me in a Web browser, while open-in-new-tab is extremly valuable.
4. R.Biz Says:
November 21st, 2009 at 12:39 pm
this is a very exciting project and i look forward to tap-to-click on the magic mouse. i am very much enjoying the 3 tap middle click, but as someone suggested, it would be nice if the gesture was cancelled if you hold 3 fingers for more than a second. thanks for the hard work!
5. moshelog Says:
November 28th, 2009 at 10:25 am
why it is hard to do option tap to click
6. HKA Says:
December 1st, 2009 at 11:07 pm
This little tool is one of “the missing tools” for the magic mouse – great!
Thanks, it works perfectly.