Development Overview Thread

[Andreas_Hegenberg]

Development Overview

This collects links to posts that describe changes in recent versions.

Version 5.268

BTT Clipboard Manager Development & Wishlist

Ah there was a problem with the search predicate in some situations. Should be better in 5.268

Version 5.267

Floating menu is behaving weird

could you check whether 5.267 helps?

Two Apps on the same combination

the recent alpha versions added a variable called "BTTLastTriggeredKeyboardShortcut. You could create a condition based on that. Best use BTT 5.266 or higher [image] [image] fnR.bttpreset (7.5 KB)

Version 5.265

Passing text item value to a paste custom text

with 5.265 alpha you can copy the UUID of your text field item (right-click it in the BTT configuration UI), then use this in the paste action (with your UUID): (BTT)@variable:4F14398B-E174-479F-8BFE-9EB55347868E(BTT)

Floating menus to behave like a normal window + few other observations

you could add the script after the "copyToClipboard()" call. Moving the window via the standard actions doesn't work because floating menus in general exclude themselves from macOS Accessibility (this is important for menus that don't behave like normal windows). However maybe I can change this for the "floating menu with titlebar" usecase. //edit, 5.265 should not exclude menus from Accessibility if they have a standard titlebar

Save as function fails saving in designated name

Can you check whether this works again in 5.265 alpha? I think there was a small change in a recent version of macOS that broke this. (uploading now)

Version 5.262

Focus issue with the floating window

Could you try v5.261? Also make sure to enable this in the webview settings if you have not already: [image]

Clipboard Manager is not working

ah this is due to the way your Touch Bar preset adds the clipboard widget (it's in a disabled group which is being forced shown). You can workaround it by either adding any other trigger to show the clipboard manager (e.g. a keyboard shortcut) or by upgrading to 5.260 alpha which I'm uploading now

Version 5.258

Would it be possible to remember device's UUID on "Position On Screen" setting?

Yes it should be solved in 5.258, it should now show "Previously Saved Display" with the old saved UUID

Version 5.256

Focused element sometimes not changed in Conditional Activation Group

I think there might have been a potential display issue that caused the variable value display to not update, should be resolved in 5.256

Version 5.253

BTT Clipboard Manager Development & Wishlist

sorry for slow replies, I had caught a really bad flu - took me out for a week ... slowly recovering now I'll look through the things you posted, the animation should be disabled now in 5.253 (uploading)

Floating menu is behaving weird

there were a few more caching related issues, I hope 5.253 resolves them. While some basic caching is still automatically applied, the full menu caching (which also increases memory usage) is now optional. It should only be needed for very large menus: [image]

Version 5.252

Allow 'Show Menu Bar in Context Menu' to be 'filtered' to only certain Menu/Sub-Menu/etc

In 5.252 I added an option for the predefined action "Show Menu Bar In Context Menu" to show a specific submenu: [image]

Version 5.248

Floating menu is behaving weird

Ah I think I missed one spot, can you try again with 5.248? (uploading)

AppleScript: `reveal_element_in_ui` does not accept `shared_secret`

should be resolved in 5.248

Two UI bugs related to the "Groups & Top Level Triggers" search

This is fixed in Version: 5.248 (2025030304) and possible few version before that one.

Version 5.247

Floating menu is behaving weird

I think I accidentally applied the new caching mechanism to submenus in the recent alphas. Could you check whether it works again in 5.247 ? (uploading)

Version 5.246:

Urgen Help needed, open Folder leads to immediate crash

in 5.246 I have added one more sanity check to ignore negative image sizes.

Version 5.243:

Changes on multiple buttons deletes text - and no UNDO?

I did work on this a bit more and was able to change the behavior to something that might be better. With 5.243 if you select multiple items it will show a dummy text like this: [image] You can then change the formatting of that dummy text and it will not change the actual text - only the formatting.