SHIFT SHIFT hungs bettertouchtool in later versions

Bugs or Unexpected Behavior
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This combination worked flawlessly on earlier versions like
BetterTouchTool 5.295 (March, 31, 2025)

Now on
BetterTouchTool 5.562 (August, 24, 2025)

there 2 issues, 1 big 1 small

  1. big
    on some occasions the bettertouchtool process becomes unresponding upon doing SHIFT SHIFT and activity monitor kill is required

  2. small
    if I have some time to trigger the SHIFT SHIFT then this

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    SHIFT action is triggered first.

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for your second one best activate the order relevant checkbox and possibly increase the value you set for „trigger only if no further keyboard input is recognized for“ a bit

I haven’t encountered issues with my shift shift key sequence, what kind of action do you have assigned to it?

Also make sure to update to the latest alpha, I improved some key sequence related things yesterday

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Thanks for the quick reply

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The javasript changes the english letters to greek letters
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I did both your suggestions, will update if I reproduce the hunging again.

Thank you

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ah there has been a fix for a potential JS hanging issue recently, hopefully that will resolve your issue

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unfortunately it happened again the hunging

Is there a way to downgrade to a lower version?

6

yes, they are all available here: Index of /releases

However first export your preset

Also would be great if you could share the problematic trigger so I can try to reproduce the issue

7

I can reproduce the issue with the script you posted here:

I'll check what's wrong.

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async (clipboardContentString) => {
    const alphabetEN = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ";
    const alphabetGR = "αβψδεφγηιξκλμνοπ;ρστθωςχυζΑΒΨΔΕΦΓΗΙΞΚΛΜΝΟΠ;ΡΣΤΘΩΣΧΥΖ";

    // Determine if the first character is in the English alphabet
    const firstIsEnglish = alphabetEN.indexOf(clipboardContentString[0]) !== -1;

    let newMessage = "";

    if (firstIsEnglish) {
        // Switch layout to Greek
        await trigger_named_async_without_response({
            trigger_name: 'changeInputGR',
            wait_for_reply: false
        });

        // Convert only English letters to Greek
        for (const char of clipboardContentString) {
            const idx = alphabetEN.indexOf(char);
            if (idx !== -1) {
                // If char is English, map it to the Greek equivalent
                newMessage += alphabetGR[idx];
            } else {
                // Keep anything else (already Greek or punctuation) as is
                newMessage += char;
            }
        }
    } else {
        // Switch layout to English
        await trigger_named_async_without_response({
            trigger_name: 'changeInputEN',
            wait_for_reply: false
        });

        // Convert only Greek letters to English
        for (const char of clipboardContentString) {
            const idx = alphabetGR.indexOf(char);
            if (idx !== -1) {
                // If char is Greek, map it to the English equivalent
                newMessage += alphabetEN[idx];
            } else {
                // Keep anything else (already English or punctuation) as is
                newMessage += char;
            }
        }
    }

    return newMessage;
};

this is the latest code

9

This should be resolved in 5.598! (uploading now)

(was related to a deadlock within the trigger_named_async_without_response call)

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After the latest update to 5.670 this javascript does not work as before

Is there a way to downgrade until you check it ?

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sure, you can always downgrade to your previous version: All current and previous BetterTouchTool releases for download (best export your current preset before doing that)

However your java script seems to work fine here (v5.684)