Tried it open and closed, makes no difference using the shortcuts.
is the BTT clipboard manager maybe disabled for the app that you are trying to screen capture?
No, nothing disabled:
Also not the case
very weird, I'm currently out of ideas what could cause this. I have tried on all my test machines, but the system screenshot actions copy fine on them. I can't think of any special rules that would exclude such content :-/
No problem, as mentioned before I now use the BTT action which works fine!
Thx for looking into it.
Is it just me or CM's gear/settings icon cannot be pressed (settings window is not opened) if I click on the gear symbol itself, but if I click right next to it (within it's button/rectangle) settings window is opened:
I've restarted BTT - still does not work.
BTT Version: 5.273 (2025031801) , 5.271 also have this issue
I'll restart my mac later today and see if this will fix it, but it is strange, right?
strange, it doesn't seem to matter where I click the icon. I'll check whether anything could overlap blocking the click
I really like the new Snippet Group feature. I've configured a pair of shortcut keys to run Copy to Clipboard Manager Snippet Group and Paste from snippet group which I can use as a stack, so I can copy a bunch of things from one window and then switch to a different window and paste them all back out one at a time.
This has actually been something I've thought about implementing using the custom javascript processor feature but never got around to. I figured I would be able to serialize the stack to a JSON object and store it in a BTT variable, but this saves me the trouble.
A cool iteration would be an option to split up the copied text on newlines (or some other delimiter), so that if I copy several lines, each line would go into a new snippet. This would allow me to copy 50 lines from a text file and then press the Paste from snippet group button 50 times, pasting a new value each time.
I could also imagine some useful things I could do if there were javascript functions I could call from Run Real Java Script that would allow me to read/write to the snippet groups. In fact if I had CRUD functions for snippet groups I would be able to implement the "copy lines to snippet group" feature myself.
EDIT: OK I actually just sat down and implemented this stack feature with "Run Real Java Script" and it took like 5 minutes- but it would still be cool to have something like this natively.
@Andreas_Hegenberg Is there a way to update/replace/delete a specific item in the All Items list via an action/javascript without showing the Clipboard Manager window?
I'm trying to perfect something set up last fall that involved a Clipboard Contents Did Change trigger so that I only end up with the transformed content in the clipboard history.
Clipboard Contents Did Change calls forever - #12 by somelinguist
@somelinguist not yet, but I'll soon have a scripting api for that.
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Hi Andreas, a weird one - I'm using Shottr app (for screenshots), recently I've noticed that not all my screenshots are saved in BTT's CM. I think I've managed to isolate the "issue" to only few apps (MS apps like Outlook, Teams) from which the screenshots aren't save, if these apps are active, e.g. I can take screenshot of MS Teams if my active app is Firefox for example.
The interesting thing is that if I use iScreen Shoter app, or BTT's action "Capture Screenshot then edit in BTT (easiest)" no such issue.
If I use BTT's action "Capture Screenshot to Clipboard" - again no screenshot is saved to BTT's CM
BTT clipboard is not disabled for any app, no secure input.
BTT Version: 5.278 (2025032402)
Yep, if it is enabled - screenshots are saved to BTT's CM.
Thanks, then I need to adapt the filtering. (Microsoft apps are very "special" about clipboard handling, when accessing the wrong identifiers that often slows things down, which is why BTT uses a black/whitelist approach there)
Great! Do you have an idea why when using the mentioned app and BTT's action no such issue?
Most likely they put different identifiers / utis into the clipboard, I'll check!
Ah maybe you can check when clicking the top right, does it show different things for the different apps?
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Both "Shottr" (non-working) and "iScreen Shoter" (working) are showing only public.png.
Ah then the issue is probably different. I assume in case of Shottr the "focused" app is the Microsoft app, in case of iScreen Shoter the focused app is either iScreen Shoter or something else. Thus the filtering only applies in one case.