Created Named Trigger variable but get_string_variable failed as trigger not active

[Stacey_Marshall]

I created a Named Trigger: emacsclient which consists very simply with the following settings:

tell application "BetterTouchTool"
trigger_action "{
  BTTActionCategory: 0,
  BTTPredefinedActionType: 292,
  BTTPredefinedActionName: 'Assign or Set Value for Variable',
  BTTVariablePersist: '1',
  BTTVariableOnlySetIfNotYetDefined: 0,
  BTTVariableName: 'emacsclient',
  BTTVariableValue: '/Applications/MacPorts/EmacsMac.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/emacsclient -nqe',
  BTTEnabled2: 1,
}"


end tell

But when I then try to get that value it fails

tell application "BetterTouchTool"
	try
    set EC to get_string_variable "emacsclient"
	end try
end tell
return EC

The result is missing value.

As I typed the above it occurred to me that I'd never executed the named trigger. And sure enough if I action it once it is then set.

Did I miss some documentation on this implementation?

Searching here I could not find this information, so sharing here as it might help someone else in the future.

[Andreas_Hegenberg]

Unfortunately you can't use named triggers like that. However you could use dynamic variables. Here is an example:

[Andreas_Hegenberg]

Or if it's really just static variables, you could use the "After BetterTouchTool Did Launch" trigger and just assign your "set variable" actions:

[Stacey_Marshall]

Thank you @Andreas_Hegenberg for both of these solutions. I was after a global static, its value would to be the same for all scripts whether in a Named Trigger or elsewhere and so the use of Dynamic Variables is the solution. I clearly missed where that was to be set.

The use of a static variable is interesting mind I was intending to create a trigger stack that first uses Set Value and then follows it with a Named Trigger that uses the value. Is that intended or should I just keep to using Dynamic variables in this instance?

Much appreciated.