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#532: BetterTouchTool

April 19th, 2020·79 minutes

BetterTouchTool takes a Mac's input devices and turns them into automation triggers. It can transform the Touch Bar into a customized set of tools and make a Trackpad or Mouse much more powerful. This week Stephen and David dive into this utility and what it can do.

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Use trackpad and mouse gestures on Mac - Apple Support

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BTT Documentation

BetterTouchTool Community

Siri Remote - Apple

BetterSnapTool - folivora.ai

BTT Remote - folivora.ai

BetterTouchTool Tricks - MPU Talk

I didn't post many updates about BetterTouchTool during the last few weeks or even months. This was mostly because we had our first baby and I took some time off to enjoy that amazing time. I'm now fully back to work on BTT, so here is the first update in 2020 🎉.
Presets

BTT now supports a new preset bundle format that can include files which can be referenced e.g. in scripts or in the floating HTML view. Documentation for this will soon be added on https://docs.bettertouchtool.net. This is quite powerful and I think it will allow some great new things to be greated with BTT.

Predefined Actions

Improvements for the 16' Macbook Pro.
A few new predefined actions: Connect Bluetooth Device, Disconnect Bluetooth Device, Toggle Bluetooth Device. They can for example be used to easily connect / disconnect AirPods. You can also check the connection state via Apple Script now (see https://community.folivora.ai/t/work-in-progress-and-alpha-features/8832/193 )
Switched the Floating HTML view to the modern Apple WKWebView because the old one BTT was using is deprecated. This will allow for some cool new things. I'm going to post various related tutorials on my blog soon.
- Files located in the preset data folder can now be accessed using presetfile://
- Other local files can be accessed via localfile://
- You can now write custom predefined actions in Swift or Objective-C: https://github.com/folivoraAI/BetterTouchToolPlugins

Other small features

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The BTT Clipboard Manager (predefined action 'Show Clipboard / Pasteboard History', can now preview PDFs and various other file types.
Dragging a file (or something else) onto the BTT menubar or dock icon, will copy it to the clipboard and make it availble in the BTT Clipboard Manager.
Clipboard Manager got a new option to clear all entries but keep the ones marked as favorite.
Next event widget allows to select the number of days to look ahead
New triggers in 'Named / Other Triggers Section': Specific app did launch, app did terminate, app did activate, app did deactivate.
New trigger in other / named triggers, 'Did receive NSWorkspace Notification'
You can now place the icon for a Touch Bar button inside the text by using the {icon} placeholder
The calendar day widget has more configuration options, e.g. to select what happens on tap.

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Bugfixes

Improved Touch Bar visibility behavior after system sleep
Fixed randomly stuck Touch Bar buttons when using key repeat
Significantly reduced false positive rate for the Tip Tap gesture.
Fixed issue where the 'Restart after sleep' option would not be saved in general settings
Global Touch Bar gestures should behave better
Fixed a bug where the shell task / script action assigned to a Touch Bar widget would sometimes delete the Touch Bar widget's text after running the task.
Many little other fixes reported on community.folivora.ai