Quick hack for getting the value of fullscreen_active for any app while in full-screen mode?

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It seems fullscreen_active not always 0 or 1. Or when YouTube video is fullscreen not the app itself.

I can check for BTT itself by running AppleScript for any arbitrary trigger.

tell me

    get_number_variable "fullscreen_active"

end tell

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But how to do it for other apps?

Thanks.

2

This uses the currently focused window to retrieve the full screen state, so it should also work for other apps

3

No, I meant I am making BTT fullscreen, then clicking run script button which gives me 1.

But how do I do that for other apps? If other app is fullscreen I obviously can't access BTT. What is the natural debugging process in this case ?

4

Just for debugging?

You could assign the run apple script action e.g. to a keyboard shortcut

tell application "BetterTouchTool"

   set variableState to get_number_variable "fullscreen_active"

set theDialogText to "Current variable value" & (variableState) & ""
display dialog theDialogText

end tell
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Yes. Thank you. That worked! I simply assigned to variable and display it with keyboard shortcut.