I have made a ton of different BTT shortcuts for various Mac apps, but Ableton Live seems to react different. Shortcuts do work fine, but when filling out any text fields in a project (like tracknames), the program types the conversions of the keys I have programmed in BTT. Is there some ingenious w…

what exactly do you mean by conversions?

As an example, Zooming shortcuts in Ableton are +/-. I used BTT to change that into R/T, which works fine, but as soon as I type a word in a text field that contains the characters R or T, these will get written as +/-

Sorry if I wasn't clear in my question. In the screenshot you see a track in Ableton that I wanted to rename into 'BART'. Because I programmed triggers for R and T in BTT, those keycommands will be taken by Ableton as +/-. But I don't want that to happen in text fields. Does that make the issue mor…

So when the cursor is in a text field, the letters should be typed. But if not, zoom should be active. This should work with the script if you find a menu item that can only be selected in a text field.

Ok now I understand the idea of using menu items. But the scripting seems a bit like a rabbit hole so I will just live with Ableton's standard keycommands. Thanks anyway

I use "Advanced conditions" in cases like the one you describe. If you use a condition like "focused_element_subrole == "AXTextField" you can tell to BTT to not trigger the zoom if you press R or T inside a text field.

Thanks @jordikt , I get the idea and although basic Advanced Conditions is just within my comprehension, scripting is certainly not. So I think I leave the idea of custom keycommands for Ableton. Life is letting go:)

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Frank1 February 25, 2025, 4:36pm 4

If I understand correctly, the exact name of a field does not matter in your case. It is only a matter of distinguishing text fields from non-text fields. Then take a look here