Using BTT with contexts alt+tab?

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Can't seem to figure out how to get contexts to pick up the keystrokes coming from BTT

I've tried apple script, background and blocked
Tried the embedded keystroke option

No luck. I can get option down to engage and option up to engage when I remove my finger but I can't get the tab to be recognized, unfortunately. While my fingers are still touching I can click tab and contexts will pop up but not using any command from within BTT

Edit:

I got it working somewhat, I think I had not converted one of the named commands to an apple script blocking one.

tiptap right:

script for option down
script for keystroke tab

upon release script for option up

tiptap left:

script for keystroke tab using shift down

This method seems to be slow between taps but what I found is that after I do my 2 finger down tip tap right, I can switch to my regular tip tap single finger down which is a simpler alt tab without a script so that seems to be more responsive and works in both directions.

I think the apple script is needed for contexts to recognize the keystrokes initially

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Hey,

what do you mean by contexts?

Best,
Andreas

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It's a software for mac

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I'll have a look!

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It's still not fixed. Any clean solution for Contexts to pick up the keystrokes by BTT?

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I ended up scripting the commands

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If you happened on this like I did trying to get the AltTab app behavior to work, here's what I did.
For 3 Finger Tap, add action Run Apple Script (blocking) and put this in the text box:
tell application "System Events"
key down {option}
key code 48
delay .01
key up {option}
end tell

Now when I 3 finger tap it goes to the previous window. Had issues trying to use the native option.

Hope this helps!

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By the way, have you tried BTT's window switcher (predefined action "Show Window Switcher For All Apps")? That one can better be integrated with BTT's gestures/triggers.
I'd be happy to add features needed to make this work for you in case it is missing something.

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