bttWidgetSliderMoved not triggering

Discussion & Questions
1

I have added the Volume Slider Widget trigger to my touch bar. I have set 10% for Trigger after sliding. Then I added a Run AppleScript async action to it, that looks like this:

on bttWidgetSliderMoved(newSliderValue)
    display dialog "OK"
end bttWidgetSliderMoved

However, this never seems to run, no matter how much I slide my volume widget.

Any ideas?

2

displaying dialogs only works with the non-async/non-background versions of the apple script runner.

I think there might also be an issue which requires you to return a string to make it work (I'm looking into this right now)

on bttWidgetSliderMoved(newSliderValue)
    display dialog "OK"
    return "done"
end bttWidgetSliderMoved
3

Not working with blocking applescript on v4.257.

4

ah it has been a few years since I looked into this.

Unfortunately you are right, Apple Scripts displaying UI won't work with these at all, regardless of whether it's run in background or foreground. Worse: they will lock up the Apple Script runner process, so after running such a script you need to restart BTT.

If you need to display UI from within such a slider, try this to show a BTT HUD:

on bttWidgetSliderMoved(sliderValue)
    tell application "BetterTouchTool"
    
    trigger_action "{\"BTTPredefinedActionType\": 254, \"BTTHUDActionConfiguration\": \"{\\\"BTTActionHUDDetail\\\":\\\"hud detail text\\\",\\\"BTTActionHUDTitle\\\":\\\"hud title\\\",\\\"BTTActionHUDDuration\\\":\\\"0.7\\\",\\\"BTTActionHUDBackground\\\":\\\"38.719535, 38.720697, 38.720067, 213.662109\\\",\\\"BTTActionHUDSlideDirection\\\":0}\"}"
    
    end tell

end bttWidgetSliderMoved
5

Thanks for looking into this. I need this event in order to set different icon depending on system volume percentage. I need to mimic default volume button behavior.