![]() When this is all done, you can tap a button on the Touch Bar and fire any Keyboard Maestro macro you desire. (While in Keyboard Maestro, be sure to set the trigger for the macro to be a script.) … and then paste it into BetterTouchTool. To get that, you will need to select “Copy as UUID” in Keyboard Maestro: Where I have that placeholder text, you’ll need to paste in the UUID of the Keyboard Maestro macro you want to execute. Osascript -e 'tell application "Keyboard Maestro Engine" to do script "PLACEHOLDER"' The action you need to use is named “Execute Terminal Command (Async, non-blocking),” which makes the button fire off a script. Turns out, you can even have BetterTouchTool become a trigger for Keyboard Maestro.įirst, create a button in the Touch Bar section of BetterTouchTool, or a group that you can place buttons in, like I have: I then fired up BetterTouchTool, which among many other things, allows you to create custom UI elements on your notebook’s Touchbar, tying them to a wide range of actions. To re-use these macros on my MacBook Pro, I made a copy of them in Keyboard Maestro, which I have sync its data over Dropbox. Here’s what that looks like, with my secret URLs redacted:Īs you can see, on my Mac Pro, this is triggered by a specific button my Stream Deck, as pictured above. I’m doing this via with Keyboard Maestro, another incredibly flexible tool. The MPU page in Relay’s ad-tracking system. ![]() The Stream Deck is incredibly flexible, but one of my most common use cases is to tap a single button on it to open a bunch of related Safari tabs when it comes time to prepare for a show.įor example, if I press the button with the MPU logo, it opens these pages: As with most things, he was right about how much I would come to love it. As such, it seems wise to me to make it more useful.Ī little backstory first, though… earlier this year, David Sparks finally talked me into buying a Stream Deck to use at my desk. This is what the macros originally mentioned in the first response of this topic do - they detect the initial press and then wait and then decide what to do later.Love it or hate it, it seems that the Touch Bar is here to stay on the MacBook Pro. If you want to behave differently in those different circumstances, then you need to have a macro that does not fire any effective actions at all until some later time when it know what you did in fact do. So it does not know when you press a key the first time, whether you are going to tap it or hold it down for a long time, or tap it three times quickly. Tapped twice happens when you press and then release and then press and then release the key reasonably quickly (and not for the third or more time).Īs described in the linked post, if Tapped Thrice will trigger a macro, then so would any macro triggered by Released or Tapped, since they all happen on the third release. Select multiple individual items in a window or on the desktop.Tapped once happens when you press and then release the key reasonably quickly, and you didn’t just do that previously.Tapped happens when you press and then release the key reasonably quickly.Released happens when you release the key.Pressed happens when you press the key down.I would think “double tapping” a key means pressing it twice in quick succession. Double Tap documentation Questions & Suggestionsĭo we have documentation for double-tap? I’m having trouble getting it to work.
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