Floating menus: Tooltips on buttons

I do not find the check box “use identifier as tooltip” in my BTT UI.
I am trying to use a circular action ring, but without tooltip I would have to remember what each icon on the action ring does.

The setting is available in "Menu Behavior":

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Hi there,
I’m new to BTT but find it really useful. I’m using BTT 6.194 on macOS Tahoe 26.3.1. While configuring my first circualar floating menu I tried to add tooltips to my menu items. But both options ‘Show Identifier / Item Name as Tooltip’ as well as ‘Specify Tooltip Separately’ just open empty bubbles as tooltip. What am I doing wrong? Any help appreciated :wink:
TIA, Werner

macOS: 15.7.3
BetterTouchTool: 6.433

I recently selected tooltips to some menu items. Since then I need to select the items twice to activate the items. The first tap(trackpad) dismisses the tooltip and the second tap actually triggers the menu item. If no tooltip is selected you can activate the menu item with one tap.

another autoraise issue? It seems to work fine here

A wait you mean after the tooltip has been shown? In that case it is currently expected, but if you directly click it should immediately trigger

regards items for the text selection menu. the tooltips show right away, so no time to select before the tooltips show. as far i can see not autoraise related.

Did you maybe at some point change the delay time?

It can be configured via this terminal command:

osascript -e 'tell application "BetterTouchTool" to set_user_defaults key "BTTFloatingMenuTooltipDelay" numberValue 1'

Default is 1

not that i'm aware of or remember, but applied the osa setting, now the 1s delay before the tooltip shows. Option to have this as setting near the tooltip config?

Currently not because it is a global setting.

However I think I can make the click close the popover and trigger the action.

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Would be for sure the nicest way

Works like a charm :+1:

macOS: 15.7.3
BetterTouchTool: 6.436

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