Left-click on dock registers as left-click and hold

Bug Reports
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Describe the bug
When the foreground process or the computer is hanging for a bit during resource-intensive tasks (such as compiling or opening a big app), a "left-click" an icon on the Dock will register as a "left-click & hold" which causes the menu for that icon to pop-up instead of switching to that icon's app.

Affected input device (e.g. MacBook Trackpad, Magic Mouse/Trackpad, Touch Bar, etc.):
Magic Mouse
I bet it happens with the trackpad too, but I have no trackpad to test it right now.

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Device information:

  • Type of Mac: iMac 5K
  • macOS version: 10.14.1
  • BetterTouchTool version: 2.660

Additional information (e.g. StackTraces, related issues, screenshots, workarounds, etc.):
I've had this issue for years on different Macs and macOS versions, but I never made the connection that it was a BetterTouchTool bug…

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Unfortunately this might not be solvable because the macOS event services can "lock up" in such situations, without ability to really influence the behavior because it happens on a lower level than BTT.

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I posted something that sounds similar that I called "sticky" clicks. It's really evident in Excel and Tableau. In both apps the way you rearrange tabs is by click-holding and then dragging the tab in the new location. I'm constantly having this action invoked when all I intended was to click to select the tab. It drives me crazy accidentally dragging stuff around, and it goes away if I disable BTT.

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I am having the same issue with the sticky clicks, especially in Excel. Did you ever figure out a setting that fixes that? It's driving me crazy as I work in Excel often in spreadsheets with many tabs. Any insight would be appreciated.

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I am having the same issue with a new MacBook Pro 16. It is most noticeable in Excel when switching between tabs. I click on a tab and instead of activating the tab, it click-drags the tab as if I wanted to move the tab location. The behavior stops when I disable BTT.

I don't think its a resource intensive issue because it happens when running only excel and very few other processes working.

Has anyone else reported this issue? I really like BTT, but I'm really getting tired of having to move tabs back when they are being dragged around on accident.

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Try to disable window snapping for excel. Some apps might not respond fast enough to the snapping related commands.

Example for Finder:

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I disabled window snapping in Excel and it is much much better. I'll run it through it's paces and give you a final report, but for now it seems to have solved the problem. Thank you so much.