Updating a trigger and showing the floating menu causes the conditional activation group to stop working

Bugs or Unexpected Behavior
1

Updating the trigger in any way or showing the floating menu will cause this issue. You have to switch windows to restore functionality.

Device information:

  • macOS version: 15.7.1
  • BetterTouchTool version: 5.740
2

sorry I don't understand what you are trying to do or what the issue is.

However one general note:
Do not use the bttcli from within BTT, that is very inefficient compared to using the "Run Real JavaScript" or even "Run Apple Script" actions.

3

Oh, thanks for the tip, but using the "run AppleScripts" method causes the same issue:

After updating the trigger or showing the floating menu, all triggers in the conditional activation group stop working. In the video, all the conditional activation groups I use to toggle app visibility have temporarily stopped working.

4

Can you explain what you are trying to setup? What kind of trigger are you disabling via the script call?

5

For example, in the Key Sequences group, I set pressing F1 to enable the shortcut and releasing F1 to disable it. I use this feature to map Spokenly’s hotkeys, and that part works fine, but then the shortcuts in the conditional activation groups stop working—like the group shown in the video for showing and hiding the app. So whenever I switch apps after using voice-to-text, the keyboard shortcuts stop working. Simply setting the trigger to either "BTTEnabled": 1 or 0 causes this issue.

6

For example, there are these triggers:

  1. Conditional activation group > Keyboard shortcuts > Option+1 > Show HUD overlay

  2. Conditional activation group > Trackpad gestures > Three-finger tap > Show HUD overlay

  3. For All Apps > Keyboard shortcuts > cmd+e > update_trigger(BTTEnabled:1)

  4. For All Apps > Keyboard shortcuts > cmd+e > update_trigger(BTTEnabled:0)

  5. For All Apps > Keyboard shortcuts > cmd+e > Show floating menu

After trigger 3/4/5, 1 stops working, but 2 remains unaffected. Hope you can fix this—it really affects usability.

//edit: It seems update_trigger only has an effect when updating keyboard-shortcut-type items/group.

This leaves me completely unable to use the floating menu and update_trigger, because every time I do, the shortcut to switch apps stops working—Am I the only one having this problem?