Tutorial / New Feature: Text Selection Did Change Trigger

15.3 latest public beta, its all good I've figured out a workaround just wanted to see if this is something on my end exclusively. appreciate all your work good sir :pray:

Then I'll need to try figure out what's wrong!

You are using the official ChatGPT app and it doesn't behave like this?

@frankmak in case you are using the "detached" version of ChatGPT it might be fixed in v 5.133.

For the Safari issue, it might be helpful to figure out what's wrong if you could create a quick video capture of what you do exactly to cause this. Maybe I'm missing something

5.136 (uploading) again fixes various issues. I have now also uploaded the first version of the documentation here:

https://docs.folivora.ai/docs/1009_text_selection_did_change.html

And here the individual menu items can be downloaded
https://docs.folivora.ai/docs/1010_text_selection_did_change_widgets.html

I have also updated the example preset which will now always be available here:
https://folivora.ai/releases/text-selection-base.bttpresetzip

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Here's an example. Everytime I double click a search box (or any empty text field for that matter) in any app it will do this behavior but its always Safari that is copied EVEN when quit. Additionally, at the end of the ChatGPT part, when I hit my keyboard trigger for running "Run Text Selection Change Detection" nothing happens. Can confirm this trigger works everywhere else.

Right after ending this video, when I went to unpin the clipboard BTT stopped responding and I force quit.
On BTT v5.137 right now.
ChatGPT Version 1.2025.014 (1737150122)
Latest macos beta 15.3

Andreas, it seems that the individual widgets' links cannot be downloaded, clicking only opens the URL, but nothing happens and when trying to download the link, it is downloading html file.

thank you for noticing, this should be fixed now!

Doesn't work in any of the Adobe CC apps. To be fair, PopClip doesn't work there either - that's why I was so happy when I saw the feature and even more disappointed when it also didn't work.

I don't know the Adobe CC apps very much, could you give an example where it would helpful there? I can probably give you some terminal command to enable it

In text editing, it would be helpful to convert the text to uppercase, underline it, and make it bold. Additionally, having direct AI support to correct highlighted text with a single click for spelling and grammar would be beneficial. Inserting commonly used special characters, like an em dash, would also be useful. Of course, essential functions like cut and paste should not be overlooked.

You are right, just tested with Photoshop.
Not only that it doesn't work, it even slows down text selection a lot. It seems like photoshop is very slow in responding to the text selection requests. I'll workaround that slow-down now which will however effectively disable the mouse-based feature for adobe apps for now.

I think for now the only solution will be to bring up the menu by double pressing option key after selecting text (in the example preset)

How do I enable append trigger on websites and pdf text files? Append icon only shows when using text based apps like Notes and other apps.

Also I created a trigger but the icon doesn't show in the settings

Ah for testing I had enabled a script on the append item and forgot to disable it:

You can do it yourself:

Nope! still not showing

most likely the script had already updated the visibility, you might need to restart BTT after disabling the script

Yes restarted and working now.

for the second question, why is the icon not showing?

Can you copy the youtube item here? then i can check

Thank you! I think I found the issue, should work again with 5.138 (uploading). You might need to add the image again.

5.138 also contains some important performance improvements for the text selection trigger in general.

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Thank you

Slightly updated the preset to automatically close submenus after 5 seconds after the menu has disappeared.