HUD Overlay 'Show when gesture is triggered' doesn't work unless there is also an action assigned to the trigger

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Describe the bug

HUD Overlay 'Show when gesture is triggered' doesn't work unless there is also an action assigned to the trigger.

Affected input device (e.g. MacBook Trackpad, Magic Mouse/Trackpad, Touch Bar, etc.):
Magic Trackpad / N/A

Device information:

  • Type of Mac: MacBook Pro, 16-inch, 2019
  • macOS version: Ventura 13.1 (22C65)
  • BetterTouchTool version: Version 3.952 (2117)

Additional information (e.g. StackTraces, related issues, screenshots, workarounds, etc.):

I created a new trigger:
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Which has no actions assigned to it:
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And I configured HUD Overlay's 'Show when gesture is triggered':

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When I trigger my gesture, I would expect to see the HUD overlay show up; but nothing happens. :bug:

I then configure any action for the gesture:
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When I trigger my gesture now, the HUD overlay shows up, as expected :ok_hand: (even though there are definitely some formatting/cropping issues with the text shown in it):
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If I remove the configured action again:
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When I trigger my gesture, the HUD overlay doesn't show up again :bug:

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This is due to some performance optimizations BTT does. In order to not evaluate not used triggers, a trigger without any actions is usually not even loaded from the database.

You can instead assign the "Show HUD" action (which by the way has been improved a lot with the latest alpha)

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Yeah, fair enough, that makes sense.

I guess it would be good to have that shown in the UI somehow, so that it's not an 'unexpected thing' to the end-user. A little i info note or similar in that section would be helpful; or possibly even having it disabled/greyed out when there are no actions configured (ideally with an explanation as to why it's disabled) would make this feel more like an 'explicit feature' rather than a 'weird and confusing bug'.

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Yup, maybe I can even consider the hud option as an action. I'll do some experiments with that.

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Awesome! I appreciate your efforts/work! :slight_smile: