BTT Clipboard Manager Development & Wishlist

Is there a way to redesign the "title"/information about the copied screenshots, at the moment "Copied from programX" seems like any other copied text:
image

It is hard to distinguish between copied text and copied screenshot. I think if possible show the screenshot in the whole row and add programX icon at most left like for others copies, this will also unifies how all copies are shown:

I think it would look weird to have the screenshot take the full size because usually it will still very small when keeping the aspect ratio. I think it would cause a weird look with a lot of visual overhead if there is a mix between text items and image items and added app icons :-/

Also e.g. with image files copied from Finder it will show the filename, which imho is quite helpful

A comparative FYI. Alfred uses just the icon of the app and then a fragment of the contents. It puts the icon as far left as possible and moves the numbering (for keyboard access to the right); for screenshots it doesn't show a thumbnail but uses the app icon and details the image and file size:

BTT is showing more content in that we have the time info and icons for functions. I'm more used to Alfred's compact view, but we get more functionality in BTT. One nice feature for Alfred's viewer is preview on hover, so you can quickly look at items without clicking to activate them.

Personally I don't like these compact views, but it would be a good option to add and should be very simple to do. For me knowing the image size would almost never be helpful in selecting the one I want but I think it would be a great addition to the thumbnail. So maybe instead of "Copied From XXX" I could make it say "Image: 100x100, 400KB, from XXX"

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@Andreas_Hegenberg The editing clipboard text content functionality has some new unexpected behavior.

The cursor position keeps moving to the end of the text content when I try to edit the text. I think this is related to the new "auto-save" functionality.

For example, if I have this text in my clipboard The capital of France is Paris and I want to change it to The capital of Germany is Berlin, then I get this strange cursor behavior:

Here are my Clipboard Manager settings:

Device details:

  • Device: MacBook Pro (14-inch, 2021)
  • macOS: 15.2 Beta (24C5073e)
  • BTT Version: 4.955 (2024120623)
  • Alpha: 1 update(s) behind latest Alpha version 4.955 (2024120624)
  • Regular: Installed version is ahead of latest Regular version 4.910.

Hi, it seems I can rearrage the tools at the bottom of the preview but the position doesn't stick:

Also [Open With...] doesn't work, and sometimes [Run Shortcut] fails to trigger when clicked on.

@iandol there are three different item types, which currently serve the bottom bar order separately (text, images, files). I will make this more clear

Hi,

Is it possible to add:

Option-Shift-Command-V: Paste and Match Style: Apply the style of the surrounding content to the item pasted within that content

I use this function and I find it very useful....

Thank you

I think that would be the same as the "Paste Plain Text" that is already available. (macOS always matches style)

Hi,

No, its not the same.

I just tried with an email.
If I am writing in bold and I paste from the BTT clipboard as a plain test, the text is not inserted in bold, if I paste with the combination Option-Shift-Command-V it is inserted in bold.

Thank you

Ah I see, it behaves different in different apps. In e.g. Text Edit it seems to paste bold in that case

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@fortred2 4.958 (uploading) should hopefully resolve the editing issue. It also includes a first snippets / saved searches sidebar - however this is in very early alpha and doesn't support much yet. Will improve it tomorrow.

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Hi Andreas,

I'm using 4.959, but I cannot see the snippets/saved searches sidebar is this expected?

Do you think the points in BTT Clipboard Manager Development & Wishlist - #47 by xidiot are worth implementing? I mean for point 1 this is already the case for all other copies besides for the copies made from the clipboard itself.
For point 2 - it will be useful if you search for something, a bunch of results appear so you select one of them, but then realize that the search is too broad and refining is needed, but upon typing everything in the search box is being deleted:.

by default it is hidden, you need to press the << button on the top left to show it. But it's very basic at the moment.

I think adding a Copy & Move to Top would be good and probably appending to the search instead of resetting it makes sense! I'll look into these soon.

Next I will work on adding more scripting capabilities and a few helpful predefined actions.

E.g. to make a queue functionality I'll add

  • "Copy Selection To Snippet Group"
  • "Paste and Remove First (or last) Item From Snippet Group"

With these it will be possible to add copy multiple things in sequence and then paste them one by one without looking.

Then I'll add more actions to paste specific snippets.
E.g. "Paste Specific Snippet", "Paste All Items That Fulfil Condition" ....

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The snippet / clipboard manager already works pretty well, thanks @Andreas_Hegenberg :slightly_smiling_face:

But one question, because I don't know how to solve this.

Most of the time I only need the clipboard manager, a small window at the edge of the screen, like this.

For the “big” snippet manager I would like to display a bigger window in the middle of the screen

I would like to have two shortcuts that always show one or the other, but there is only one action that I can trigger. So that doesn't work.

Do you understand what I mean? And how can you solve this? :slightly_smiling_face:

yes, the action to show the clipboard manager will get more options later this week (positioning, sidebar visibility and specific snippet group to open)

Mm, ok, but does that solve my problem? Two shortcuts, each showing a different window in a different position?

yes, would it not? Do you need both visible at the same time?

No, no, just one :+1:

Thanks again for all these updates.

Starting in 4.963, the sidebar for the preview on the right doesn't retain its adjusted width after restarting BTT, whereas it did before. Now it looks like it's using some default.

Are you using splitView.autosaveName? If so, I ran into a problem last week where I needed to also set splitView.identifier, and both needed to be set after the parent view had loaded.