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BetterTouchTool 0.781

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So here the things that have changed since the last main release version:

  • A customizable 4 finger tap sequence gesture for the trackpad this gives you 24 new gestures ;-) but no one will be able to remember them all)
    I haven’t tested this gesture a lot, so please report anything you notice.
  • Custom click picker (see screenshots below)
  • Two finger swipes got an option to require a swipe to the very edge of the trackpad before they trigger (screenshot)
    This allows you to use two finger swipes for scrolling AND a custom gesture.
  • Some fixes to window snapping
  • Fixed “Open Application / File / Script”, “Open URL / Open URL with selection” and “Paste Custom Text”
  • Retina Menubar Icon
  • Fixed issues with tiptaps on the trackpad
  • Improved general Mountain Lion compatibility

I also began the implementation of recording custom gestures, but haven’t finished this yet. (you can see that you are now able to draw in the Live View, this is the first step ;-) )




 

written by Andreas Hegenberg

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  1. Mac???????????????MacTips?????? | ???? Says:
    December 23rd, 2012 at 5:31 am

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44 Responses to “BetterTouchTool 0.781”

  1. 1. Joe Says:
    July 15th, 2012 at 7:40 pm

    Andreas,

    Thanks for your continued hard work! Is this “0.744″ alpha technically newer than your previously released (via this website, not through auto update) “0.77″ alpha, despite the lower version number?

    Side note: were you ever able to definitively figure out what was causing the “stuck” clicks? Was there a specific third party application that caused conflicts?

    Joe

  2. 2. Andreas Hegenberg Says:
    July 15th, 2012 at 7:41 pm

    damn thanks for noticing :-D I wanted to write 0.774. WIll fix it asap

  3. 3. Joe Says:
    July 15th, 2012 at 7:43 pm

    Update – just installed. Did you link to the correct version?

  4. 4. Andreas Hegenberg Says:
    July 15th, 2012 at 7:44 pm

    For the suck clicks, which Mac OS X version are you using? I haven’t noticed them anymore since 10.7 … but back when I noticed them they were caused by apps that listen to the media keys on the keyboard (play pause etc.), for example Spotify.

  5. 5. Andreas Hegenberg Says:
    July 15th, 2012 at 7:44 pm

    No I changed the link just now… sorry!

  6. 6. Joe Says:
    July 15th, 2012 at 7:44 pm

    Whoops, nevermind – you beat me to it!

  7. 7. Andreas Hegenberg Says:
    July 15th, 2012 at 7:51 pm

    Ah…. I think I just found a bug that will prevent the new gesture from working…. will upload a fix in a few minutes^^ not my day :-)

  8. 8. Joe Says:
    July 15th, 2012 at 7:53 pm

    I was running lion but I downgraded back to snow leopard for various reasons – hoping mountain lion is a big improvement. I only occasionally still notice what I think are stuck clicks, but they are rare and could just be missed clicks/taps that I’m mistaking for stuck clicks (which would make sense because I experience the “issue” when using an external mouse as well). Anyway, figured I’d see if you were ever able to narrow it down to a specific application. I’ve never used spotify on my laptop, though I do use several applications that utilize the media keys. No biggie though, just thought I’d ask because it’s been awhile since that issue was brought up.

  9. 9. Joe Says:
    July 15th, 2012 at 7:55 pm

    LOL, no problem – do you think you’ll change the version to .775 when you upload the fix?

  10. 10. Andreas Hegenberg Says:
    July 15th, 2012 at 7:55 pm

    yep, just uploaded and changed to 775

  11. 11. Joe Says:
    July 15th, 2012 at 8:17 pm

    Thanks! Look forward to the updates ;-)

  12. 12. Sam Says:
    July 15th, 2012 at 9:21 pm

    So excited for new gestures! Thanks Andreas!

  13. 13. Maxime Says:
    July 15th, 2012 at 9:57 pm

    Hi Andreas,
    I’m running ML GM and I’ve just tried BTT because I would like to speed up three-fingers swipes. It doesn’t seem to work though, and I feel that’s a bug due to ML. When I run the app, click Advanced, Trackpad, it tells me, in red, “you have to activate swipe to navigate”. I did that but the app doesn’t show any slider and so I can’t change the sensivity (although I can for about every other gesture).
    Could you please check and tell me what you think about it?
    Thanks!

  14. 14. alessandro Says:
    July 16th, 2012 at 11:03 am

    hey andrea is it possible to make 3 fingers swipe up/down more sensitive?(they work just fine but i feel like thet r less sensitive than before)

  15. 15. Jay Says:
    July 16th, 2012 at 6:29 pm

    Andreas– I echo my heartfelt thanks for your commitment to what has become one of my two New Mac Must-Have tools: Launchbar and Better Touch Tool. I, too welcome new gestures; is it possible to have a single finger rotate right/single finger rotate left gesture? This would be useful for variable functions like volume, screen brightness, keyboard illumination, etc. I find the two finger rotate too often gets confused with pinch/zoom. Thanks again for your efforts and time.

  16. 16. alessandro Says:
    July 17th, 2012 at 7:25 pm

    which is the latest version? 0.775 or 0.7761

  17. 17. Andreas Hegenberg Says:
    July 17th, 2012 at 7:26 pm

    0.776 and 0.7761 are the same, I’m only using 0.7761 in order to be able to differentiate download counts and update counts ;-)

    But I’ll release 0.777 / 0.7771 soon

  18. 18. alessandro Says:
    July 17th, 2012 at 7:58 pm

    hey andrea in btt 0.7761 u have changed something i made a simple automator app to restart btt :
    tell application “BetterTouchTool” to quit

    tell application “BetterTouchTool”
    activate
    end tell
    now it just quit btt but it wont reopen in 0.755 works perfectly instead.. thanks:)

  19. 19. alessandro Says:
    July 17th, 2012 at 8:05 pm

    also open file/app/script make btt crash

  20. 20. Andreas Hegenberg Says:
    July 17th, 2012 at 8:08 pm

    thanks for reporting :-) can you try if 0.777 fixes the crash? http://bettertouchtool.net/btt0.777.zip

    For the applescript: maybe the system is confused because you have multiple BetterTouchTool apps lying around. You could try this apple script instead (replace the path with your BTT location):

    tell application “BetterTouchTool” to quit
    do shell script “open /Applications/BetterTouchTool.app &”

  21. 21. alessandro Says:
    July 17th, 2012 at 8:17 pm

    ehhehe just made second script like you:)
    the crash is solved but no the apple script for restart:(

  22. 22. Andreas Hegenberg Says:
    July 17th, 2012 at 8:37 pm

    mhh maybe you need to add a delay after the quit, I don’t think I can influence this behavior.

  23. 23. alessandro Says:
    July 17th, 2012 at 10:57 pm

    tried on 2 different mac wasted 2 hours this thing is drivin me crazy deleted all the cache launche services etc etc with older version of btt the script works perfectly (tell application “BetterTouchTool” to quit
    do shell script “open /Applications/BetterTouchTool.app”) i saved it in automator as an app then bonded it to a keybord shortcut in btt coul u please try and confirm it does not work? it just close btt .

  24. 24. Andreas Hegenberg Says:
    July 17th, 2012 at 11:05 pm

    for me it’s working fine :-(

    try this:
    tell application “BetterTouchTool” to quit
    delay 1
    do shell script “open /Applications/BetterTouchTool.app &”

    (don’t forget the & at the end of the path)

  25. 25. alessandro Says:
    July 17th, 2012 at 11:06 pm

    also the bug was not completely solved i cnnot change items in open app/script…

  26. 26. alessandro Says:
    July 17th, 2012 at 11:11 pm

    thanks your version with the delay solved … i m starting to hate osx so many bugs……!!!!!!!!!!! i sed mine for months with no problem …..

  27. 27. Andreas Hegenberg Says:
    July 17th, 2012 at 11:18 pm

    maybe it’s because I’m saving some prefs when exiting BTT in the most current versions. This may cause BTT to take a split second longer to quit and thus when the apple script says “activate” BTT is still running and doesn’t restart

  28. 28. alessandro Says:
    July 17th, 2012 at 11:23 pm

    tell application “BetterTouchTool” to quit
    delay 0.1
    do shell script “open /Applications/BetterTouchTool.app &”
    it works just fine this way anyway thanks again

  29. 29. Alaska Jack Says:
    July 18th, 2012 at 5:23 pm

    Andreas -

    I respect all the extra abilities BTT gives a Mac user, but for my own use I really am looking for just one simple thing: The ability to use two-finger tap to “open link in new tab.” Lots of windows machines do this, but I haven’t been able to find a single Mac program to do it. Is there a reason that two-finger tap is not possible?

    - aj

  30. 30. Robertoo Says:
    July 18th, 2012 at 8:12 pm

    I am using a swipe gesture and a keyboard shortcut to snap windows to the left and right part of the screen. In previous versions this always worked, but now the mouse has to be on a particular window to snap it left or right. Is there any way to set it back to the old settings?

  31. 31. Andreas Hegenberg Says:
    July 18th, 2012 at 8:15 pm

    @Robertoo, mhh can you check if there: http://d.pr/i/STon/4u7qPPt9 focused window is selected?

  32. 32. Robertoo Says:
    July 18th, 2012 at 8:32 pm

    @Andreas: Great, it works. Thanks for the quick reply!

  33. 33. Dan M Says:
    July 18th, 2012 at 11:40 pm

    Thank you so much for BTT/BST! I just updated so I’ll have to play around with new features. I’ve only ever used BTT with a magic mouse, but I’m getting a laptop sometime this week, and the edge of trackpad feature sounds really useful, as do custom gestures. I am having some issues with four finger clicks being recognized, and for some reason it just crashed while I was typing this (it froze while I was seeing how well the new version was dealing with four fingers in live view, then disappeared when I went back to the safari window)

  34. 34. Joe Says:
    July 19th, 2012 at 3:44 am

    Very COOL, update! I just tried the new custom four finger gesture. Now when I strum my fingers, first pinkie, then 2nd finger in, then 3rd, then index final forth, I can bring up Space (F8). I just STRUM them in quick order on the MagicPad. I’m sure I’ll find other uses, but this first test was GREAT, and I’ll use it now rather then then pushing the cursor to the upper right corner of the screen to enable Spaces, which was just a normal setting choice in TrackPad Prefs under “spaces”. Keep up the great work!

  35. 35. Josh Says:
    July 20th, 2012 at 10:10 pm

    This version seems to keep the computer awake. I turned off BTT last night to test it and my mac went to sleep like it should.

  36. 36. John Says:
    July 21st, 2012 at 3:18 pm

    Thank you so much for BTT! I have always set my three finger tap gesture to act as a middle click. However, I recently updated to Mountain Lion and I’m using BTT 0.781. The three finger tap gesture only works when the lookup feature is checked in the Trackpad preference pane. (ie, when I tap on a link, the definition pops up, and it executes a middle click, opening a new tab) Once the lookup checkbox is unchecked, the three finger tap gesture stops working. Any help here?

    Thank you!

  37. 37. Andreas Hegenberg Says:
    July 21st, 2012 at 3:27 pm

    @John mhh I can’t reproduce this issue. Could you send me an export of your gestures to boastr.net@gmail.com ? Maybe it’s caused by a specific combination of gestures or s.th like this

  38. 38. Andreas Hegenberg Says:
    July 21st, 2012 at 3:37 pm

    ahh, are you using three finger dragging? I think that may cause the issue.

  39. 39. John Says:
    July 21st, 2012 at 3:59 pm

    @Andreas thanks for the quick reply! you’re right! I am using three finger dragging. Tried disabling it and disabling lookup and it works. In snow leopard I have three finger dragging on as well and it works. thanks again!

  40. 40. John Says:
    July 21st, 2012 at 4:00 pm

    @Andreas sorry I meant in Lion 10.7

  41. 41. Andreas Hegenberg Says:
    July 21st, 2012 at 5:14 pm

    Jup, they changed the behavior of the three finger drag in ML. It now sends a leftclick after performing a three finger tap. (Unless lookup is activated, this is why it worked for you while lookup was activated). Will be hard to block, but I’ll see what I can do.

  42. 42. Georg Says:
    August 4th, 2012 at 12:44 pm

    Hey,
    why it’s not possible to add App-specific keyboard shortcuts? Is it a Bug?

  43. 43. Jonathan Says:
    October 5th, 2012 at 1:24 am

    Hi Andreas,
    Thanks for this great application and for such dedication to its continued development. It takes the Mac touchpad to a whole new level.

    There is only one issue I have… For some reason the BTT window pops up at random times, such as when the computer comes out of sleep, and other odd times. Is there a way to stop that? It becomes the active and foremost window on its own accord.

    Cheers,

    Jonathan

  44. 44. Gary Says:
    January 13th, 2013 at 5:49 pm

    this is awesome, seems like an open option to implement locking/unlocking the macbook ;)

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