Discussion: BetterTouchTool Launcher / Spotlight Replacement (very much work in progress)

[Volker]

Nice, I will give it a try and replace Alfred with it next week in the office.

Would you mind sharing your setup of the leo.org floating menu. This is much better than opening a browser tab - that I need to close after I see the right translation.

Thank you.

[Andreas_Hegenberg]

here it is, best use with 6.410:

leo-floating-menu_launcher.bttpreset (69.2 KB)

The keyword is set to "leo" in this preset

[Andreas_Hegenberg]

with 6.430 support for creating launcher plugins via AI should be much better.
I asked it to create an in-launcher Tetris and it worked on first try (after it fixed a few initial compilation issues by itself)

[Volker]

Hi Andreas,
that is amazing and leads me to the question: "When can the Launcher run Doom?"

After using the Launcher productively for the last three days I can say that it already works pretty good and most of my findings are fixed with the current alpha version (6.433).

Only one thing is left so far:

• Marking words with the mouse in the prompt e.g. to delete them does not work - instead the launcher position is moving, even if I have configured that it opens at the center of the focused screen

Feature Idea:

• I guess this can easily set up with a Floating Menu
• Type e.g. "Timer 1m30s" into the launcher and press "Enter"
• A Floating Menu with a Countdown Timer opens and counts down from 1min 30s
• At the end of the Countdown a tone or notification (HUD) pops up
• Bonus Buttons: Pause, Restart, +30s, -30s and Close
• Bonus Information: Original Start Time of the Countdown (e.g. 1min 30s), End time of the Countdown e.g. 2:31:31pm
• I was trying to adjust this timer Porting timer widget from the Touch Bar to a floating menu - #3 by Andreas_Hegenberg but so far couldn't invest enough time

Best regards,
Volker

[Andreas_Hegenberg]

6.434 improves the dragging (hopefully) and adds a integrated timer widget. If you assign a keyword to that timer widget you can e.g. type "timer 15min" (supports various time formats)

[StanN]

Looks great, would be nice to have the option to set a audio file for the timer to play when timer ends.

[xidiot]

BTT launcher - that's great! Thanks Andreas!

Strange behavior - typing exactly what the result is (check 2nd screenshot) doesn't show the needed action.

but when slighly changed it knows what I want to do.

I guess it is because the 1st word is timer, but still I find it a bit odd that typing exactly what is shown as result in the 2nd screenshot doesn't show the actual action, but it is offering me some other actions - search files etc.

Another one for the Timer, the Pin is always active and there's no way to go back:

[Chaiman]

Is there anyway to reset the launcher settings/configuration? I’m having problems with the launcher, the trigger does not activa the launcher. It may be a problem related to a frozen status while allowing permissions in the first activation. Don’t worry, I understand that it is in beta stage.

[Chaiman]

Last update solve the problem to start the launcher. Is there anyway to select the desired calendars in the calendar widget? Thanks