As the subject line says, drawing/mouse gesture is not working for me. This is the first time I am trying the feature, and I wish I could give more information, but I can't say anything other than that it is not working.
I have looked at the tutorial video, I have tried trouble shooting by tinkering with various settings within BTT.
The trigger is a simple "up" motion, and the action is command + arrow up for going all the way up to the top of the page in web browsers.
When I start the trigger by holding down the right mouse button and dragging up, it shows the drawing stroke, so something is being recognized, but when I let go of the right mouse button, the drawing never gets recognized and no actio is triggered. No HUD ever shows (I enabled "show when drawing recognized" in the trigger settings and configured the HUD overlay). "Required ecognition certainty to trigger" is set to the lowest possible value, 0.2.
Checking or unchecking "cancel recognition if mouse outside of drawing area" from the BTT settings doesn't help.
Affected input device (e.g. MacBook Trackpad, Magic Mouse/Trackpad, Touch Bar, etc.)
Mouse
Screenshots
Device information:
- Type of Mac: M2 MBP
- macOS version: Latest, 26.5
- BetterTouchTool version: Latest, alpha 6.522.
Additional information (e.g. crash logs, related issues, etc.) :
N/A
you have it configured to only trigger while FN is being pressed, is this intentional?
Thanks for the response.
I had it checked when I took the screenshot when I was trying various stuff. It still doesn't work when I uncheck it.
Again, the gesture initiates, drawing stroke shows on the screen (whether or not only trigger while FN (or any other key) is being pressed checked, as long as I press the appropriate key, as applicable, while initiating drawing), but no drawing ever seems to get registered and triggers the configured action.
the drawing recognition will always start if at least one drawing is configured, if it doesn’t recognize your drawing nothing will happen after releasing the mouse press
have you already tried recording another drawing? maybe something went wrong when you recorded it
I record drawing by opening the drawing recording dialogue, mouse click left at the starting location, drag upward a bit and let the left mouse button go. And then I click "Add another variation . . ." button and repeat the process a few more times, adjust "Required recognition certainly to trigger" all the way down to 0.2, name the gesture, and click "Finish & Save Gesture".
You saw in the screenshot I included, it's just an upward stroke - as simple as it gets.
I tried other shapes and it doesn't work either.
Is there anything I am missing here? Does the fact that the drawing recogniztion starts rule out the possibility that I did not give sufficient privilege to the app from Mac Settings? In any case, I think I gave all the permissions that are asked for by the app.
setup sounds good, but I have no idea how that would not work.
If you want you can go to Help => Export Diagnostic Debug Information and send the result to me via andreas@folivora.ai, then I can check whether anything is wrong with the setup.
