Hey there! I just bought BTT due to one rather specific use case: implement a mouse gesture into an app that does not currently support them.
However, I cannot seem to get them right. What I did so far:
added an app from the list of running apps
added a trigger → drawings/mouse gestures
added an action for this trigger (just a keystroke with modifier key)
Gesture trigger is set to right mouse button after a minimum of 10px was moved
What happens now is that the drawing starts and is visualised on the screen buit it never stops, even after releasing the right mouse button. I tried adding a second action “stop recording mouse gesture”, which did not help.
Anything that I am doing wrong or that I am missing?
do you have any other actions assigned to the right mouse button in the "normal mouse" section of BTT? (that could conflict with the default right-mouse-drawing). Which version of BTT are you currently running?
Addendum: I somwhow had another global right-click trigger active that interacted with this specific trigger in a bad way. Now that I have deactivated the other trigger, this one is working fine. However, it appears to be very sensitive to the correct drawing and I only manage to trigger it in ~1 out of four tries. Any way to make a gesture drawing more “encompassing” and forgiving about different lengths, etc.?
You are totally right, I just found out that I had another trigger active in the regular mouse section. Now I only have the problem of finding the right gesture to draw…
The length of the drawing does not matter, it is normalized anyways.
usuallly to make it more forgiving record multiple variations. However for the example in your screenshot that should not be necessary - especially if is is named "left" and resembles a straight line BTT will automatically use a specific algorithm to recognize straight lines. It should really trigger in 10/10 cases
