I’m testing the floating menu with the latest BTT version. I have created an application-specific floating menu. During my testing, when I edit the floating menu and activate the BTT window, my floating menu disappears from the app. I can only get it to show again by restarting BTT. Am I doing something wrong, or is this just how it works?
That's how it works because BTT is a different app - however you can use this option to make BTT simulate another app as active (just don't forget to disable it again after testing)
Makes sense. I’m also experiencing an issue where the floating menu suddenly disappears if I click outside the application window it’s configured to appear in, even though I haven’t activated the BTT main window. The only way to restore it is by restarting BTT.
I mean application specific menus only show while the specific application is active. If you click outside of that app, it is not active anymore therefore the menu will hide. Did I understand correctly?
Yes, I understand, and that is exactly what I’m trying to achieve. show the floating menu only when the selected application window is active by pressing a key combination. It works initially, but after I minimize the application window and return to it, the floating menu no longer appears. The only way to restore it is by restarting BTT.
What are your menu's visibility settings?
Also, if you have any action that hides the menu, you will need another action that shows it again - a menu that is hidden will not automatically show again unless you use the "Show Floating Menu" action.
This is my test configuration for Visual Studio Code. Basically it only has modifier based visibility configured.
Visibility settings:
you can check this option then the menu should be forced to become visible regardless of how it became hidden (if the app is active):
I also tested with that setting turned on. It has no effect.
I noticed that if I toggle some of the settings in BTT on and off, like these, it will restore the floating menu until I click outside of the application window where the floating menu should show up.
yes but that is expected because then the app is not active anymore. If you want a menu to always stay visible you need to add it to the "All Apps" section.
I don’t want the menu to always show up. I want it to be application-specific. I understand that once the configured application window loses focus or is no longer active, the floating menu disappears, but it should come back when I return to and activate the application again. Currently, it does not return unless I restart BTT or toggle some of the floating menu configuration on and off.
Could you share your preset? (you can export it and send to andreas@folivora.ai)
The behavior you describe seems to work fine here, but maybe it is some specific setting that is causing issues for you.
You are holding the left control key, the specific app is active but the menu still does not appear? did I understand correctly?
The floating menu initially works, but it stops as soon as I click outside the application window where it is configured to appear via hotkey. During testing, I removed the hotkey and set the menu to always show, but the behavior remained the same. The only way to restore the floating menu is by restarting BTT. I can provide additional details via email and record a video demonstrating the issue.
@K_N , I'm a bit confused initially you showed that the menu have these visibility settings:
with "Visibile on Launch", but now you are saying that "it is configured to appear via hotkey" (I believe it should then be configured with "Visibility Toggled Via Action" under the "menu visibility"). Which one you would like to achieve - to be visible always when the app is active or only when you trigger it via shortcut?
@K_N which version of macOS are you running? I can't seem to reproduce your issue unfortunately (even with the preset you shared)
@xidiot the menu shall be shown while holding ctrl but only if vscode is active
macOS Tahoe 26.4. I need to test this with another Mac, as there may be something on this particular device that causes the floating menu not to work as expected
This is happening on my other MacBook as well, running the same Tahoe 26.4. OS.
But I think I found a way to fix it.
I configured another floating menu that is not application-specific and is triggered via a key combination. Now the other application-specific floating menu also works all the time without needing to restart BTT every time the app loses focus and I return to it.
So if you test, make sure you don’t have any other floating menus configured—only the application-specific one—and you might be able to reproduce the issue that I’ve been talking about.