Bug with Paste item in latest BTT

alpo · April 12, 2022, 9:25am

This is BTT 3.755 on macOS 12.3.1

I have a Keyboard shortcut defined as:

Cmd+Shift+V
Paste specific items from Clipboard Manager
Paste items at positions:
- I have tried with empty value, 1, and 0
Paste as Plain text

This creates no output.

Couple of more details:

The shortcut is registered with BTT.
Paste as Plain text works when triggered from Clipboard manager using the UI

Update: I have tried various combinations and none seem to work. This might indicate that the whole "Paste specific items.." action is not working.

Andreas_Hegenberg · April 12, 2022, 9:43am

Weird, it seems to work fine here. Did it work for you before? Have you already tried to restart BTT?

0 and empty won't work, but 1 should paste the first item.

alpo · April 12, 2022, 9:51am

Indeed, odd. I have also restarted BTT and no change. Do you notice anything wrong with the configuration?

Andreas_Hegenberg · April 12, 2022, 9:56am

Could you go to help => export diagnostic debug info (in BTT main menu) and send the result to andreas@folivora.ai?

alpo · April 12, 2022, 10:00am

In your inbox. Thank you

Andreas_Hegenberg · April 12, 2022, 10:18am

Thank you! I was able to fix this.
(It was somehow related to Java Script text transformers, maybe you configured one previously and BTT mistakenly didn't correctly update the action after you removed it again). This should now be resolved in 3.756!

Marvin · August 3, 2023, 11:47am

Funny that you mention Javascript Transformation, because for me it calls my JavaScript Transformation on the clipboard item, even though I want to paste as one line.

This is my configuration, QR Code is my JS Transformation, which I use from the clipboard manager but dont want here, yet it is called when I use the shortcut.

charleshan · June 17, 2024, 7:53pm

I have this problem in version 4.566. I'm trying to use Java Script Transformer but it doesn't paste anything. Tested that the transformer works with Example input/Result and I'm using Paste items at positions: 1 as you suggested.

Andreas_Hegenberg · June 17, 2024, 7:59pm

I just checked but the transformers are working fine here. Can you post some details about your setup?

charleshan · June 18, 2024, 12:08am

Here you go.

linusr · February 11, 2025, 4:56am

Possibly ran into the same issue.

I've tested with simple CMD+V which also has same issues.
Copy selected text, F4 opens Alfred or Monarch and then pastes the text. What I found is sometimes text gets pasted after delay of few seconds but most times paste never happened or it took longer and I never waited. Manually triggering CMD+V works.

Used the text selection preset then duplicated the Copy action to add additional keyboard shortcut.

Andreas_Hegenberg · February 11, 2025, 6:36am

you probably need some delays there, otherwise your paste command will be executed before monarch is visible

linusr · February 11, 2025, 3:42pm

Tested by adding an 1 second delay which didn't help.
Video might better explain. And there was an app crash in between!

Andreas_Hegenberg · February 11, 2025, 3:44pm

Which version of BTT are you on?

While cmd+v should work on all versions, the custom paste action has been completely reworked in the latest builds (5.178). Also that one can only be used if you are using BetterTouchTool's clipboard manager.

linusr · February 11, 2025, 4:38pm

BTT version 5.172 which seems to be latest stable.
Using cmd+v has the same behaviour.

linusr · February 11, 2025, 4:43pm

I was wrong, using cmd+v with 0.5s delay works!! Thanks.