Allow triggering actions on mouse move / hover (specifically want to combine this with 'trigger while mouse over Dock' to emulate HyperDock preview functionality)

[devalias]

Currently it seems that I can only trigger mouse related actions on a click down/up:

I'd like to be able to combine mouse movement/hover with the 'Trigger Conditions' to be able to trigger while hovering over the dock:

To make this feature more generic, it would probably be sufficient to have a 'hovered for Xsec' or similar, because it looks like there are already trigger conditions for checking if it's over the dock or not.

Being able to trigger when hovering over the dock in general would be nice; but if it was possible to set up explicit triggers when hovering over different Dock items (or at least to be able to get information about what dock item is currently being hovered over through variables/similar), that would be super powerful.

It looks like we can already check the hovered_element_details in the 'Advanced Trigger Conditions' to get various information when hovering over the Dock, and about the Dock item we're hovering over:

Use case

My thoughts/use case for this are wanting to build a feature that I used to use a lot in HyperDock, which seems to no longer work under macOS Ventura. Specifically the window previews, music app control, calendar events, etc:

I was thinking if I could trigger on hover over a dock item, then I could probably use the 'Floating Web View' or similar action to generate the 'preview'/controls/etc:

• Custom Scriptable WebView · GitBook

I did see this thread/preset, though I haven't looked much into it yet. From a quick skim it seemed like it was all gesture based, so not sure it would suit the needs/desire I have here, but linking it for completeness:

Enhanced Dock for macOS

[Artboard 2 copy 8] Easily manage media, control media, quit apps, specific shortcuts for apps & more How to Use Move your cursor to preferred dock icon then use related gestures Primary Action (3 finger tap / Middle Mouse Button) [Artboard 2 copy] Finder - Close All Finder Windows Trash Bin - Empty Trash Other Apps - Quits App Under Cursor Secondary Action (4 finger tap / CMD + Middle Mouse Button) [Artboard 2 copy 2] Native Apps Finder - Opens new finder window Safari - New Tab Mus…

See Also

Hovered Over Trigger

A trigger that initiates when the cursor hovers over a determined area on the screen. As far as I can tell it's the click trigger without the click. This would allow creation of custom "hot sides" amongst other things.

Screen edge mouse gestures

@Andreas_Hegenberg You've been releasing wonderful features and updates. Any idea when you might be able to add the "move mouse to left/right edge of screen " triggers? Thank you.

Trigger request: Move mouse to left/right edge

Hello, first post. I would like to request a trigger for "move mouse to the right edge of screen" please. This would be similar to the existing top, bottom, and corner triggers, but I find it easier to quickly whip my wrist right or left and hit the edge of the screen instead. Please let me know if this is already possible, and if not, is there a particular reason why it wasn't added? What is the likelihood of it being added in the near future? @Andreas_Hegenberg Thanks in advance!

[devalias]

I also thought about attempting to create a 'Repeating or Time Based Trigger', configured to repeat in milliseconds to basically hackily implement a 'polling loop'; but it seems the quickest it can trigger is in seconds; and would probably be really inefficient to do it that way anyway:

It seems I can set it to a fraction of seconds though.. so I could have it check every 0.1sec as an example:

And it seems I can also use that with the 'Trigger while mouse over Dock':

It's not super clear to me how I can access specific parts of the hovered element details within the advanced trigger conditions though; as they seem to be XML/PLIST, yet that doesn't seem to easily/neatly fit into the is, is not, etc choices we have:

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It also seems that I can set the floating web view position to be relative to the mouse position (as well as other options):

But what I would really like to be able to do is to be able to set it relative to the hovered Dock item.

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It looks like the only options I have when triggered multiple times (as I assume would happen when using a time-based trigger set to a low time threshold; as there doesn't seem to be an option there to tell it to only trigger once) is to 'toggle between visible and hidden' or 'keep visible and refresh content'; though for this use case, I feel like 'keep visible (without content refresh)' might actually be a better option:

[devalias]

It also seems like the 'relative to mouse position' might be buggy currently?

As when I have it set to 0, 0, and hover over a dock item, I would expect the window to end up near that dock item. But instead it ends up somewhere in the middle left'ish area of my screen. Hard to demonstrate in a screenshot, but I was hovering over 'System Settings', yet you can see where the webview popped up:

[devalias]

I'm not sure if there is a way to make this happen currently, but for this use case it would be ideal if I could have the floating view disappear after Xsec after moving the mouse away from the Dock item that is being hovered.

Edit: Looks like maybe I can use the following for that (though haven't thought through/figured out exactly how yet):

• 'Execute Action Sequence after Timeout'
• 'Cancel Timed Action Sequence'

[devalias]

I was thinking maybe a 'conditional activation group' might be able to be used in some way:

But it looks like the conditions available aren't really sufficient for detecting when hovered over the menu bar:

I thought 'Focused element role' / 'Focused element subrole' might work, but that's doesn't work for hovered items in the same way that hovered_element_details does.

It does have a 'Mouse Behind Notch' option there though.. so I wonder if we could similarly have 'Mouse over Dock' or similar?

[devalias]

I was also thinking that maybe, even if it wasn't possible with any of the above features, I might be able to use some 'Run real JavaScript' to define a custom trigger; but as best I can tell, that only seems possible to use as an action, not a trigger. Is that right?