Floating menu - refresh menu item

Discussion & Questions
1

Hallo,

I have a little debug floating menu with 2 button items which visibility is toggled with Apple script to a enabled/disabled state (with those red/green buttons). It all works fine, but there is a little issue with the refresh...

Note: Only one of the two button items is actually visible.
The enabled button image is normal, while the disabled image, when visible, is slightly "dimmed".

When I running the apple script with the enable button the text in the last button is updated immediately, while the button image is only updated (=switched) when the cursor leaves the enable button (see video).

It is not a big issue, but is there a way to refresh the button visibility also immediately ?

Thx,
Christian

BTT version 4.485
MacOS : 13.6.7 (22G705)

Enabled state:

Menu-1
Menu-11338×358 244 KB

Disabled state:

Menu-2
Menu-21316×354 233 KB

Video (show pressed Enabled button) :

Enable button script:

tell application "BetterTouchTool"
	
	-- set hover frame color to standard gray - enabled state
	update_menu_item menu_name "All-fx" item_name "button_6" json "{BTTMenuItemBorderColorHover: '192, 193, 194, 255'}" with persist
	update_menu_item menu_name "All-fx" item_name "button_6_disabled" json "{BTTMenuItemBorderColorHover: '194, 195, 196, 255'}" with persist
	
	update_menu_item menu_name "All-fx" item_name "button_6" json "{BTTMenuItemVisibleWhileActive: 1}" with persist
	update_menu_item menu_name "All-fx" item_name "button_6" json "{BTTMenuItemVisibleWhileInactive: 1}" with persist
	
	update_menu_item menu_name "All-fx" item_name "button_6_disabled" json "{BTTMenuItemVisibleWhileActive: 0}" with persist
	update_menu_item menu_name "All-fx" item_name "button_6_disabled" json "{BTTMenuItemVisibleWhileInactive: 0}" with persist
		
	update_menu_item menu_name "All-fx" item_name "button_6_status" json "{BTTMenuItemText: 'enabled'}" with persist
	
end tell
2

How/where are you updating the image?

3

Hallo Andreas,

there actually two menu items/buttons with different images defined, and I "switch/toggle" the (visibility on/off) of both menu items with two apple scripts...(one for on / one for off)

Note: in this way those two buttons can have also potentially different actions.

buttons
buttons1920×964 141 KB

4

the "enable button" / "disable button" will use a Named trigger, which contain the apple script...like so:

Named tirggers
Named tirggers1920×1114 128 KB

5

I see in your applescript code that every line that updates menu items finishes with "with persist".

What is the "with persist" command for?

Thx!

6

it saves the changes to the database, so they will still be there after restarting BTT (by default it just updates temporarily but keeps what is defined for the menu / item)

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