April 10th, 2013· This alpha is supposed to fix a problem with Parallels Desktop 8 which did not receive keyboard shortcuts correctly
· Also an issue that may have occured when using four and three finger swipes on Mountain Lion should be resolved.
· Added option to disable BTT while holding modifier keys (advanced => settings). This may be useful for users of an app called "The Touch App"
· Would be great if you'd report any issue you encounter.
April 8th, 2013· 0.922 didn't show the options to configure "other triggers" on some systems
April 8th, 2013· GUI changes, you can now rightclick on the tabs to hide devices you are not using
· Fixed various bugs
· Configured keyboard shortcuts can now disables for specific apps
· Added two new tabs, "Other Triggers" and "Leap". Leap is not available yet, but will be unlocked in one of the next versions. Other Triggers currently contains only a few triggers, but I'll continue to add new ones.
December 14th, 2012· Added support to trigger multiple actions per gesture/shortcut. There is also a new "delay next action" action for cases where this is necessary.
· Keyboard shortcuts can now be defined app specific, not only global as before
· You can now reorder your gestures by drag and drop
· Added a new predefined action to send keyboard shortcuts to specific apps while another app is active
· Menubar items can now also be triggered based on their position, not only based on their name.
· Fixed some bugs
December 14th, 2012· Fixes some snow leopard issues
November 26th, 2012· Resolves an issue where BTT would just quit after sleep.
November 26th, 2012· Fixes some issues with Snow Leopard and BTT Remote.
November 23rd, 2012· Fixed an issue with four finger taps triggering twice
· Little bug fixes
November 12th, 2012· Added four finger double-tap gesture for the trackpad
· Added a cool new predefined action to trigger arbitrary menu bar menu-items (Trigger menu bar menu-item). You can e.g. use this to start / stop dictation, switch tabs etc..
· Added a predefined action to show the current menu bar in a context menu at the current mouse position (Show menu bar in context-menu)
· Added an option to reduce the mouse cursor speed while holding specific modifier keys. (it's in the advanced trackpad and magic mouse preferences and can also be triggered with the predefined action "Toggle mouse speed").
· Added an option to ignore gestures while typing on the keyboard, this can be activated in the general BTT trackpad preferences.
· Some bug fixes
October 18th, 2012· Another bugfix update that solves a few problems, e.g. with the Application Switcher action, keyboard shortcuts and memory usage.
October 18th, 2012· Fixes a few issues introduced in 0.8
· Hope this improves the two finger edge swipes
· Added ability to send keyboard shortcuts with keyboard shortcuts
· Fixed various actions that didn't work when triggered by keyboard shortcuts (e.g. paste custom text, open url with selected text...)
· If you use gestures with modifier keys custom keyboard shortcuts should work better now.
October 8th, 2012· Dropped support for 32Bit Macs
July 19th, 2012· A customizable 4 finger tap sequence gesture for the trackpad (this gives you 24 new gestures).
· Custom click picker.
· Two finger swipes got an option to require a swipe to the very edge of the trackpad before they trigger .
· This allows you to use two finger swipes for scrolling AND a custom gesture.
· Some fixes to window snapping.
· Fixed “Open Application / File / Script”, “Open URL / Open URL with selection” and “Paste Custom Text”.
· Retina Menubar Icon.
· Fixed issues with tiptaps on the trackpad.
· Improved general Mountain Lion compatibility.
July 14th, 2012· Fixed two finger swipes
July 11th, 2012· Fixes the no longer working “Open Application / Script / File” predefined action in BTT.
April 28th, 2012· Improved Mountain Lion compatibility
· Fixed copy/paste of gestures
· Various bug/gesture fixes
· Hopefully fixed a freezing issue
· Fixed a bug that sometimes blocked scrolling on normal mice
December 1st, 2011· fixed a bug with trackpad tip taps
· sorted gestures
November 28th, 2011· fixed a bug with trackpad tip taps
· sorted gestures
· fixes a few issues with the new gesture & action dropdowns.
November 2nd, 2011· Fixed autoupdate and some other improvements.
October 31st, 2011· very basic support for multitouch Wacom tablets, but gestures may not work as well as on apple devices yet (because they are not optimized for the different size etc.) but I really like my new Wacom tablet so I’m probably going to add better support soon Pinch & Rotate are currently not supported for those tablets.
· if you add a gesture more than once (see screenshot below) BetterTouchTool will now show a contextmenu instead of performing one of them randomly. Also if you add notes the notes will be shown in the menu instead of the gesturename / shortcut)
· fixes an issue with the middleclick action
· right-clicking a trackpad gesture allows you to select if this gesture should work on all connected trackpads, only on built-in trackpads, only on the magic trackpad or only on other trackpads.
October 30th, 2011· Very basic support for multitouch Wacom tablets, but gestures may not work as well as on apple devices yet (because they are not optimized for the different size etc.) but I really like my new Wacom tablet so I’m probably going to add better support soon Pinch & Rotate are currently not supported for those tablets.
· If you add a gesture more than once (see screenshot below) BetterTouchTool will now show a contextmenu instead of performing one of them randomly. Also if you add notes the notes will be shown in the menu instead of the gesturename / shortcut)
· Some bugfixes
October 17th, 2011· added two new gestures for the Magic Mouse: “two finger double-tap” and “three finger double-tap” (disable doubletap gestures in your System Preferences if you want to use the ones in BTT)
· fixed various issues with the remote control
· added new predefined action “paste custom text”
· you can now copy all gestures from one app to an other by right-clicking on the app.
· various fixes for different predefined actions (launchpad, dashboard, middleclick…)
· rewrote the swipe recognition algorithms for the magic mouse completely (they should produce less false positives now)
· some window snapping fixes
· various other fixes & improvements.
October 4th, 2011· Added two new Magic Mouse gestures: “Two Finger Double-Tap” and “Three Finger Double-Tap“. In order to customize them deactivate the double-tap gestures in your system preferences. You can use the new gestures while still using the old “Two and Three Finger Taps” but in order to be able to recognize the double-tap those gestures will be executed after a short delay if double-taps are used.
· some window snapping fixes
· should fix a few problems with the apple remote control plugin
July 25th, 2011· added some new predefined actions for lion (move space left/ right, lookup word under cursor)
· few fixes for lion (three finger swipes sometimes didn’t work)
July 22nd, 2011· Fixes a few things in Lion (e.g. the three finger double tap to lookup should now work while BTT is running).
July 17th, 2011· Workaround for the Spotify and VLC problem. (No lost clicks should occur anymore, if you encounter new issues please report them. This was quite a big change so there may be side effects I haven’t noticed yet)
· Support for the Apple Remote control. (Will overwrite all standard remote control actions of an app if used, it’s not possible to replace single remote actions)
· In the window moving and resizing options you can ow select if you want the resizing actions to work on the monitor the window is or on the monitor the mouse is on.
· Fixed a problem with window snapping and Lion
· Reduced file size
July 11th, 2011· Adds support for the Apple Remote.
July 4th, 2011· adds a new predefined action “enter fullscreen” for Lion users. It should work with all apps that support the new fullscreen mode
· stability improvements
· improves four and five finger swipes for the trackpad
April 22nd, 2011· fixes a few bugs that could cause BTT to terminate at random times
· added a simple mode
· there is a questionmark in the gesturetable now, if you click it you may get more information for the selected gesture (altough currently I haven’t added a description to all gestures)
· ability to print (or create a pdf) from your gestures
· ability to add notes to a gesture (doubleclick the notes cell in the table)
· added two finger swipes for the trackpad (but currently scrolling is not disabled while using them)
· added corner clicks for the macbook trackpad
· fixed five finger move for the trackpad
· a few new predefined actions: minimize &zoom window under cursor, resize window to fit thirds of the screen
· in the window moving options you can choose when to stop the moving / resizing (after releasing your finger or after releasing the modifier key)
· various fixes and internal changes
April 18th, 2011· this is the first version tested on Lion. There may still be bugs, please report them if you have access to Lion.
· stability improvements
· in the window moving and resizing options you can now select when a window should stop to move (after releasing the keyboard keys or after releasing the finger from the trackpad)
February 23rd, 2011· May fix one of the oldest crashing bugs in BetterTouchTool.
February 22nd, 2011· fixed corner clicks
· fixed bug with two finger swipes on the magic mouse
· added cmd+ctrl+opt+O as default shortcut for opening the BTT preferences in the keyboard tab
· added predefined actions “minimize window below cursor” and “zoom window below cursor” (should both work in expose too)
· various other fixes
February 15th, 2011· fixed five finger move gesture on the trackpad (tap with five fingers, release four of them in order to move or resize a window)
· added information buttons in the gestures view (currently there is no description for any gesture but I’ll add them during the next few days. The description is loaded from my webserver and is in html, so I can add pictures etc. to describe the gestures.)
· fixed window snapping bug with windows that have drawers on the right side
· various little fixes
February 14th, 2011· Various fixes
· Added an easy / advanced toggle. This is still very alpha and the contents of the basic settings tab may change.
January 31st, 2011· some little bugfixes (e.g. pref window should now always be centered)
· please test especially the window snapping because its internals have changed completely (should now work better with Firefox 4 and some other apps)
January 18th, 2011· improves behavior of some actions (e.g. expose, spaces, dashboard and show desktop ) in combination with some gesture combinations
· small fixes
· testing my new download webspace
January 17th, 2011· should fix the problems with pinching and rotating
· should fix a bug that caused tipswipes to behave strange
· should fix the middleclick action
· should fix problems with various magic mouse gestures
December 7th, 2010· Adds a new predefined action “expose and sort” which shows the expose and sorts it’s windows alphabetically.
December 3rd, 2010· The previous version which was available for download didn’t work on some systems. I just uploaded 0.6293 which should fix a few problems.
October 2nd, 2010· fixes some silly bugs...
· worked on the zoom in and zoom out predefined actions for the magic mouse
· added new action to close window under the cursor. This even works while in expose!
· donations are now possible (http://donations.boastr.net)
September 24th, 2010· tipswipe conflicting with three finger swipes on magic trackpad should be fixed
· new action: close window under cursor. This works also while in expose but will only work for windows which have the the red close button!
· some other fixes
September 17th, 2010· fixed some bugs that could crash BTT
· the rounded corners for window snapping should look better now
· Introduces three finger clickswipes for the trackpad and magic trackpad (click and then do a three finger swipe while holding the trackpad clicked)
· If you use three finger clickswipes the behavior of the three finger click will change. Without clickswipes it will trigger as soon as the trackpad is pressed down. With clickswipes activated it will not trigger until you release the trackpad again. They won’t work on early 2008 macbooks and macbook airs.
· sensitivity settings for two and three finger tap aren't ignored anymore
· tipswipes shouldn't move the cursor anymore (I block the movement as good as possible for me)
· some other bugfixes
· three and four finger click on early 2008 macbook pros (MacbookPro4,1) still not working
· please report any bug/ crash you encounter using the built in "report feedback" feature
September 16th, 2010· three finger tiptaps should work again
· changed some default values
· some other minor fixes
September 13th, 2010· introduces three finger clickswipes for the trackpad and magic trackpad (click and then do a three finger swipe while holding the trackpad clicked). If you use three finger clickswipes the behavior of the three finger click will change. Without clickswipes it will trigger as soon as the trackpad is pressed down. With clickswipes activated it will not trigger until you release the trackpad again. They won’t work on early 2008 macbooks and macbook airs.
· two finger tap sensitivity on the magic mouse improved
· fixed some bugs that could cause BTT to crash
August 17th, 2010· Some crashfixes
· The rounded corners used in the window snapping preview should now look much better if you use thicker border.
August 11th, 2010· Just a few little stability improvements and one or two other fixes.
August 10th, 2010· three and four finger click on early 2008 macbook pros (MacbookPro4,1) still not working, I don't know if I'll be able to bring them back for those macbooks.
· should fix most of the remaining issues which were caused by changes in the apple mulitotuch / trackpad driver
· three finger dragging does now work while BTT is running
· there is a new setting for window snapping, it allows you to set a padding for windows.
· magic trackpad improvements
· two finger tiptaps and normal tiptaps on the trackpad can now be used with predefined actions start/stop moving windows and start/stop resizing windows
August 9th, 2010· Hopefully fixes a bug that broke some gestures on the magic mouse on some systems e.g. single finger tap left.
August 7th, 2010· fixes a crashing bug which was introduced with 0.603
· padding can now be disabled for maximizing windows
· rightclick with the touchpad should be possible again by holding two fingers on the trackpad and clicking with the thumb
· different bugfixes
· should improve the two finger tap on the magic mouse (less false positives!)
August 6th, 2010· Padding can now be disabled for maximizing windows
· Rightclick with the touchpad should be possible again by holding two fingers on the Trackpad and clicking with the thumb
· Different bug fixes
August 5th, 2010· Two finger tiptaps and normal tiptaps can be used with predefined action start/stop moving and resizing now. So you perform a tiptap, leave one finger on the trackpad and move it in order to move the window under the cursor.
· The window moving and snapping features now support a padding (I hope this is the correct word).
August 2nd, 2010· Allows you to use the new three finger dragging while BTT is running. I still don’t recommend using it though because it conflicts with some gestures. But at least it’s possible now.
July 31st, 2010· a few fixes
· if you have problems with three finger click in combination with cmd click please try the alternate cmd click mode (http://drp.ly/1supde )
July 31st, 2010· apple three finger dragging is disabled while BTT is running
· two finger tiptaps don’t register always on some systems ( currently investigating here)
· “single finger top taps” don’t work perfectly on the magic trackpad yet
· application switcher doesn’t work very good atm
· tipswipe makes the mouse cursor move
July 30th, 2010· This version should improve middleclick predefined action for the trackpad (in combination with three finger click)
July 29th, 2010· A few fixes.
July 29th, 2010· the apple 3 finger drag gesture won’t work currently if BTT is running
· there may be issues if you set middleclick as predefined action for the 3/4 finger click. I’ll fix this next.
· currently only magic mouse OR magic trackpad will work, soon you can use both at the same time.
July 28th, 2010· Three Finger Click and Four Finger Click are not supported in this version. (you should remove them from your gesture list for now)
· Should fix three finger taps, four finger taps, three finger tiptaps, two finger tiptaps and normal tiptaps, also may prevent the scrolling while doing a four finger swipe
July 7th, 2010· mainly stability & bug fixes
· may lower cpu usage in some cases
· integrated bugreporter (please use this in order to report bugs from now on)
· btt can now be disabled for all apps or for specific apps
· improved window switcher
· window switcher fontsize can now be customized a bit
· appcast url changed
July 1st, 2010· some fixes
· had to change appcast URL for autoupdating (serverchange)
· fontsize for windowswitcher can be changed (predefined actions tab => stuff)
· report bug / feedback menuitem
June 17th, 2010· may lower cpu usage
· fixed bugs with window snapping
· fixed various other bugs
· can now be used in URLs while using the predefined action “open url”
· added a crash reporter (http://vafer.org/projects/feedbackreporter/ )
· btt can now be disabled completely or per app (useful for apps that don’t work well with BTT, e.g. pages or photoshop)
May 27th, 2010· A little fix for a bug in tap2click for the magic mouse (bug was introduced in 0.576)
May 24th, 2010· Should fix problems with left/rightclick recognition and left/rightclick range setting.
· Added little how to do preview animations to many of the gestures (not to all yet)
May 21st, 2010· 0.57 contained a silly bug which disabled a lot of the functions in btt. fixed that in 0.571
May 14th, 2010· New gestures for the trackpad.
May 12th, 2010· Just a few little fixes for the last alpha
May 3rd, 2010· Should fix rotate
· Test if pinch and rotate on the trackpad still works for you.
May 3rd, 2010· This version changes quite a few fundamental things inside of BTT. You shouldn’t notice most of them but it’s much more flexible now for future features.
· Fixes some bugs in various gestures.
April 24th, 2010· Fixed the biiig memory leak in 0.565.
April 23rd, 2010· single finger scrolling and window snapping can be disabled app specific
· fixed lots of little bugs
· rounded corners for window snapping preview window possible
· predefined actions: center window, center window on next monitor, maximize window to top half, maximize window to bottom half
· corner snapping width can now be set seperately
April 20th, 2010· Added a feature which allows to disable single finger scrolling and window snapping for specific apps though. (many of you requested this). I’ll release an alpha with this feature some time during the day.
· Also the preferences window can now be closed using cmd+w etc.
April 10th, 2010· adds the option to blur the background of the preview window
· here a alpha which allows iTunes to be resized via window snapping and shouldn’t crash it (ugly workaround until apple fixes the bug)
April 7th, 2010· Fixes a bug that caused windows not to snap while the animation was still running or where the preview window didn’t hide when it should. Also adds customizeable border width.
April 6th, 2010· Because not everyone likes the background / border of the window snapping highlight window… this alpha lets you choose whatever color / transparency you want.
April 6th, 2010· reduced file size
· changed thumb recognition on trackpad completely. Can now filter out those touches completely.
· magic mouse can now ignore parts completely
· window snapping window is now animated (can be disabled in the preferences)
· corner snap for quartering windows
· predefined actions for resizing a window to the top left / top right / bottom left / bottom right
· predefined action “show color picker”
· fixed problem with two finger tiptaps on the trackpad
· check for possibly conflicting applications (you can see the result on the bottom of the general tab in the preferences.)
· fixes problem wit conflicting 3 / 4 finger tap on the trackpad
· option to restart BTT after sleep
· option to check mactype on every startup (only useful for people who sync the preferences to other macs)
April 6th, 2010· animation time for the window snapping preview window can now be set
· magic mouse can now ignore areas completely (Preferences => Magic Mouse => Ignore => Ignore everything)
· some little fixes and improvements
· check for possibly conflicting applications (you can see the result on the bottom of the general tab in the preferences.)
· added predefined action “show color picker” (For developers of all kind I really recommend this http://www.panic.com/~wade/picker/ )
· the animation for the preview window should now be much smoother on bigger screens but unfortunately the border is not shown until the full size is reached
· should fix a problem with the two finger tiptap sensitivity on the touchpad.
April 2nd, 2010· improved the bottom corners a bit
tip for people who use spaces and doubletap to drag on the touchpad, if spaces triggers often while you are trying to use the window snapping stuff you may want to increase the time spaces waits before triggering. You can do this by entering this command in your terminal:
· defaults write com.apple.dock workspaces-edge-delay -float 2.0; killall Dock
· This will set the spaces delay to 2 seconds. You can use other values too, just experiment a little. Thanks to BearBar who mailed me this hint!
April 1st, 2010· improved the bottom corners a bit
March 28th, 2010· fixed some bugs that could cause BTT to close unexpectedly (crash)
· old window size can now be restored if BTT has been closed and reopened again (e.g. after an update)
· predefined actions for alt,shift,ctrl click (but they are currently not very tested)
· touchpad 3 finger click: you can now decide if you have to lift your fingers before performing a second 3 finger click or not. (preferences => Touchpad => Clicks)
· option to not restore old window size if alt/opt is pressed while dragging them away.
March 27th, 2010· may fix a possible crash that could occur while maximizing a window. Also adds experimental predefined actions for shift,alt and ctrl click. I’m soon gonna make the predefined actions menu more clear.
· 0.526 on some multi monitor configurations windows snapped to the wrong monitor. Should be fixed.
March 25th, 2010· added predefined action “Hide menubar items temporarily” which is for macbook users who have a lot of menubar icons in the menubar and thus can’t always see them. This will hide the current programs menubar items and so you’ll be able to see all menubar icons. A icon will popup in the dock but disappear if you click somewhere.
· fixed some little bugs
March 24th, 2010· changed some internals which should lead to lower memory usage. Please report if you encounter issues like BTT closing unexpectedly.
· Little fix for the single finger click middle, which now should work directly after scrolling too
· added predefined action “add new file in current folder” which just creates a new txt file in the current finder folder if triggered
· May fix problems with 3 finger swipes stopping to work after trying tipswipes, but I’m not sure about this
· some bugfixes
March 18th, 2010· added possibility to use keyboard shortcuts to trigger predefined actions (most of you won’t need that but I like it to use the keyboard for some things)
· they only work global and not appspecific
· YOU WON’T be able to go back to older versions without losing your gestures if you upgrade to this version (unless you backup your /Library/Application Support/BetterTouchTool folder)
March 17th, 2010· Added possibility to use keyboard shortcuts to trigger predefined actions (most of you won’t need that but I like it to use the keyboard for some things)
· They only work global and not appspecific
· YOU WON’T be able to go back to older versions without losing your gestures if you upgrade to this version (unless you backup your /Library/Application Support/BetterTouchTool folder)
March 15th, 2010· added possibility to use keyboard shortcuts to trigger predefined actions (most of you won’t need that but I like it to use the keyboard for some things)
· they only work global and not app specific
· YOU WON’T be able to go back to older versions without losing your gestures if you upgrade to this version (unless you backup your /Library/Application Support/BetterTouchTool folder)
March 10th, 2010· may improve the restoring of the old window size quite a bit (if this option is activated in the window snapping tab)
· added predefined action for restoring old window size
· some bugfixes
· added a very experimental dragging function (may not even work at all) for the touchpad which aims on replacing the apple dragging stuff. The problem I, and some other people have with the original apple dragging (doubletap to drag on the touchpad) is that if you e.g. drag a window around, then release your finger from the trackpad and immediately put your finger back on the touchpad to move the mouse cursor around, the window will still move, you have to wait a little before moving the mouse. I think this can be really annoying and I’d like to know if you like it the way it is or if I should put some effort in improving this function.
· If you want to try it you have to disable the apple doubletap to drag in your system preferences and activate the experimental dragging in the BTT touchpad general preferences. But be aware that this is not a good implementation yet and e.g. may suck while typing on the keyboard etc..
· If you know an other way of how to disable the strange apple dragging behavior I’d be happy if you’d let me know because replacing this by myself sucks quite a bit.
March 8th, 2010· May improve the restoring of the old window size quite a bit (if this option is activated in the window snapping tab)
· Added predefined action for restoring old window size
· Some bugfixes
· Added a very experimental dragging function (may not even work at all) for the touchpad which aims on replacing the apple dragging stuff. The problem I, and some other people have with the original apple dragging (doubletap to drag on the touchpad) is that if you e.g. drag a window around, then release your finger from the trackpad and immediately put your finger back on the touchpad to move the mouse cursor around, the window will still move, you have to wait a little before moving the mouse. I think this can be really annoying and I’d like to know if you like it the way it is or if I should put some effort in improving this function.
· If you want to try it you have to disable the apple doubletap to drag in your system preferences and activate the experimental dragging in the BTT touchpad general preferences. But be aware that this is not a good implementation yet and e.g. may suck while typing on the keyboard etc..
· If you know an other way of how to disable the strange apple dragging behavior I’d be happy if you’d let me know because replacing this by myself sucks quite a bit.
March 2nd, 2010· Some bugfixes for the new gesture (should conflict less with orignal apple 3 finger swipes etc).
· Added left and right (but currently only for touchpad) too.
· Renamed the gesture to TipSwipe Left Finger Up/Down/Right/Left.
· Fixed a problem where some programs froze for about 2 seconds after dragging.
March 1st, 2010· Some bugfixes for the new gesture (should conflict less with orignal apple 3 finger swipes etc)
· added left and right (but currently only for touchpad) too
· Renamed the gesture to TipSwipe Left Finger Up/Down/Right/Left
· fixed a problem where some programs froze for about 2 seconds after dragging
February 27th, 2010· added a new gesture, it’s currently called “3 finger touch, left finger swipe up/down” (if you have better names please suggest ;-) ) I think this image should explain this gesture: (it’s currently a very basic implementation. If it works I’ll add right and middle swipe too)
· some bug fixes
February 26th, 2010· btt shouldn’t restart after sleep anymore and shouldn’t quit randomly anymore.
· added a pressure slider for the two finger click, if you had problems with unwanted two finger clicks you can try raising the value of this slider.
· disabled the windows 7 style window moving for adobe apps because it seems that this caused some problems with dragging (@adobe please support the accessibility api better)
February 26th, 2010· now it’s for each edge (left/top/right) selectable if they work only with the predefined actions start/stop moving and/or with normal dragging (if you had disabled this you’ll have to disable it again – sorry!)
· the preview window color can be set to white
· separated the window snapping stuff in a new tab in predefined actions.
· fixed problems with restoring original window size
February 26th, 2010· the windows 7 style moving can now be disabled for normal window dragging and only be used for the window moving stuff using predefined actions
· added a very first implementation of restore old window size. So if you e.g. maximized a window it will resize to it’s old size after you drag it away again. This is currently only for testing, you have to activate it if you want to try it.
· some fixes
February 25th, 2010· btt shouldn’t restart after sleep anymore and shouldn’t quit randomly anymore.
· added a pressure slider for the two finger click, if you had problems with unwanted two finger clicks you can try raising the value of this slider.
· disabled the windows 7 style window moving for adobe apps because it seems that this caused some problems with dragging (@adobe please support the accessibility api better)
February 20th, 2010· Bug fixes: a problem with dragging in some apps, the others were some window moving stuff.
February 15th, 2010· Fixed bug with window moving on multiple monitors
· Windows 7 style window moving (resize windows if cursor at the left /top/right while dragging) now possible with normal dragging (you don’t have to use the btt moving features anymore to use it and it should even work with every mouse and touchpad, not just the magic mouse)
· Various little fixes
February 15th, 2010· fixed bug with window moving on multiple monitors
· windows 7 style window moving (resize windows if cursor at the left /top/right while dragging) now possible with normal dragging (you don’t have to use the btt moving features anymore to use it and it should even work with every mouse and touchpad, not just the magic mouse)
· various little fixes
February 14th, 2010· Tried to improve two finger tiptaps on the magic mouse (sometimes the first tiptap after a while was not recognized correctly) and it sometimes triggered three finger taps
· You now don’t have to lift your fingers after doing a custom four finger swipe on the touchpad, so you can directly swipe back in the other direction
· Three finger touch top disabled other three finger gestures, this shouldn’t happen anymore.
· May solve problem with three finger tiptaps and apple four finger swipes.
February 12th, 2010· Some people reported that the 3 finger click on the magic mouse stopped working with the last release. Raised the size / pressure needed for the 3 finger click in the last version a little bit (in order to prevent false positive clicks) and I think this may cause those problems for some of you.
· In this version the higher pressure is optional (Preferences => Mouse => Clicks => 3 Finger Click).
February 11th, 2010· Rotate & zoom sensitivity for touchpad should now work (but you may have to change the default values).
· Fixed various bugs & conflicting gestures, especially on the touchpad. (e.g. 3 finger tiptaps, 2 finger tiptaps, five finger click etc. sometimes triggered accidentally or conflicted).
· Tapping with the magic mouse should now work even if you are touching the touchpad at the same time.
· Window moving & resizing bugs, e.g. windows should now be brought to front correctly if selected.
January 27th, 2010· Fixes problems with too sensitive tiptaps on the magic mouse (the slider value was ignored)
· Allowed tiptap distance on the touchpad raised a bit
· May fix middleclick problem that occured on some systems
· Improved window moving stuff, fixed a few bugs (see window moving how to )
January 27th, 2010· May fix some little bugs (e.g. problems after sleep, crashes while moving windows, some problems with clicks, some problems with two finger taps and some problems with two finger scrolling)
· Adds predefined action “Use Apple default or do nothing” this is useful if you want to change the behavior of apple default gestures globally but want to keep it for certain apps.
January 26th, 2010· Fixes problems with too sensitive tiptaps on the magic mouse (the slider value was ignored).
· Allowed tiptap distance on the touchpad raised a bit.
· May fix middleclick problem that occured on some systems.
· Improved window moving stuff, fixed a few bugs.
January 26th, 2010· Fixes a little problem
January 25th, 2010· Great new Window Moving and Resizing (How to use)
· Five Finger Click
· Predefined Actions Zoom In and Out (behave now like the touchpad does when zooming)
· Trackpad swipes as predefined actions
· Middleclick doesn’t have to be set with all the modifierkeys you want to use it anymore (just set middleclick and it will work with all modifierkeys)
· should fix problems with stopping gestures
· should fix problems with resetting mouse speed
· many bugfixes
January 23rd, 2010· Some general bug fixes (e.g. with the batterylevel warning which is btw. now customizable.
· Also maybe fixed problems where original apple gestures stopped working from time to time, but I’m not sure about this).
January 22nd, 2010· Adds very basic implementation of 5 finger click for the trackpad.
· Bug fixes.
January 22nd, 2010· adds very basic implementation of 5 finger click for the trackpad (hope I didn’t break things, as you know I don’t have much time currently because I have to learn…;-))
· bugfixes
January 21st, 2010· Fixes some problems with using modifier keys for gestures. E.g. with window moving and resizing on the magic mouse). Also if you use 3d programs you now don’t have to set extra gestures for each modifier key you need for middle clicking. Just add middle click and it should always work.
January 20th, 2010· Windows 7 style resizing and moving features should now work on multimonitor systems
· Improved the touchpad window moving stuff (using modifier keys). Also it’s now possible to set FN as required key additional to ctrl and alt if they did conflict with some other program on your mac.
January 20th, 2010· Now stops the resizing moving with the touchpad if you release the ctrl / (alt/op) key
January 19th, 2010· Added an option to bring the moving window to the front
· Fixed some other moving related stuff
January 14th, 2010· Somehow a wrong line of code jumped into this release, could cause the liveview to crash fixed now.
January 14th, 2010· This version should fix a few problems with thumb recognition on the touchpad
January 14th, 2010· fancy app icons
· I hope it fixes a few bugs that were reported during the day
· fixes bug with using some single keys like “a” or “s” as custom shortcuts
· ability to disable autoupdate
· inserted tooltips for many things
· improved some little things of the gui
January 13th, 2010· Should fix problems with swipes that where introduced in the last alpha.
· Should disable dragging automatically if you don’t use single finger taps for leftclicking.
January 13th, 2010· Should fix some issues
· There is currently an error with the predefined action leftclick IF momentum scrolling is deactivated. Will fix it soon.
January 12th, 2010· May fix some problems reported during the night. Please test. Could also solve some compatibility issues with other programs.
January 11th, 2010· Changes the way keyboard shortcuts and some mouseclicks are sent.
January 11th, 2010· it’s now possible to record global shortcuts like cmd+tab, spotlight (cmd+ space) etc. without disabling them first, if access for assistive devices is activated
· some performance improvements
· Changed some important code, so if you encounter bugs please post them as soon as possible
January 9th, 2010· Gestures are now sorted alphabetically.
· More to come during the day.
January 8th, 2010· May fix unwanted taps after scrolling.
· Adds false positive recognition if you want to use the original 4 finger swipes (so it shouldn’t trigger 3 finger taps / 4 finger taps etc. after you swiped anymore).
January 7th, 2010· Supports dragging with single finger tap left & single finger tap (very alpha, please try on your own risk) this has to be enabled in preferences => mouse => 1 & 2 Finger Taps, there check “dragging”
January 7th, 2010· supports dragging with single finger tap left & single finger tap (very alpha, please try on your own risk)
· this has to be enabled in preferences => mouse => 1 & 2 Finger Taps, there check “dragging”
January 5th, 2010· Improved the two finger tiptaps and normal tiptaps on the magic mouse a bit.
· For touchpad there is now a thumb recognize option (touchpad => general) it currently ignores the thumb if one of the following gestures is done and one of the fingers is the thumb : three finger tap, three finger click and tiptaps.
· Added a false positive recognition for single finger taps on the touchpad edges (not a very good one but it may help a bit, at least if you have enabled the “doubletap needed”.
January 5th, 2010· should fix problem with three finger tap introduced in 0.479 and a problem with tap above apple
January 4th, 2010· many bugfixes
· lifting of fingers before two finger click is now optional (but activated as default)
January 4th, 2010· A few bug fixes and the liveview should work now
December 28th, 2009· The first implementation of live view to BTT.
December 23rd, 2009Added predefined actions (for condensed keyboards):
· page up
· page down
· home
· end
· forward delete
· Bug fixes.
December 23rd, 2009· adds three finger tiptap to touchpad (three finger fix, one finger left / right tap)
· adds single finger middle left and single finger middle right to touchpad
· adds option “Needs doubletap” for touchpad single finger taps so they don’t trigger accidentally
December 22nd, 2009· fixes the problem with the not shown actions and/or the preferences window.
December 22nd, 2009· just a little bugfix (could cause the preferences not to load)
December 22nd, 2009· Removed shortcut column, the shortcuts and actions are now displayed in the same column.
· Little improvements & bug fixes.
December 21st, 2009· this max fix a bug with some java apps and improve the open url thing
· should fix problems with whitespaces in selection
December 21st, 2009· Adds a new predefined action “Search selected text with Google”.
December 20th, 2009· This version adds the ability to autodetect the mac type on first start. (so no more annoying message that asks what mac type you use)
· Please try if “Auto Detect” button in the Preferences (General Tab) detects your Mac correctly. (maybe try setting the wrong mac type and then press the autodetect button)
December 19th, 2009· last selected tab is now saved (magic mouse or touchpad)
· Predefined action “open application / file” is now able to open folders too
· iTunes shouldn’t go behind the menubar after using maximize anymore (but still behind the dock)
· It’s now settable if the single finger taps top and bottom on the touchpad only accept the corners and the real middle or the whole top/bottom separated in 3 equal parts
December 19th, 2009· fixed problems with single finger taps top middle, bottom left/right/middle
December 19th, 2009· MAY fix problem with multiple user sessions and fast user switching
· TipTap sensitivity can now be set (only normal tiptaps atm)
· (magic mouse: Preferences => Mouse => Taps&TipTaps
· touchpad: Preferences => Touchpad => Taps & TipTaps)
December 19th, 2009· touchpad zoom & rotate repeat settable
· touchpad zoom & rotate sensitivity settable
· touchpad improved normal tip tap a little bit
· improved overall scrolling smoothness
· scrolling and tiptaps should intefer less
· touchpad: improved switching between two finger tiptap left and right
December 17th, 2009· bugfix – touchpad shortcuts where not registering
December 16th, 2009· two finger tiptap for macbook touchpad
· some bugfixes
December 16th, 2009· Two finger tip tap for magic mouse (put two fingers down, then (after at least 0.1seconds) tap fast on the left or right side of those two fingers while still holding them down. Tapping can be repeated without lifting the two fingers.
· Option for showing every version posted here in autoupdate (Preferences => General)
December 15th, 2009· Changed the upper left and upper right single finger tap for macbook touchpad.
· Added single finger tap upper middle.
December 13th, 2009· Fixes problem with “maximize window left” and “maximize window right”.
December 13th, 2009· Predefined actions next / previous should now work as expected in iTunes, Frontrow etc. so you could use the magic mouse as a basic remote with play/pause, next and previous
· Maybe better recognition of rotate and pinch on touchpad
· Maybe fixed a bug in application switcher action (but this one is not perfect yet… only use if you need it)
December 12th, 2009· For all who have problems with interfering gestures. It will output every gesture / action that gets triggered.
· You can view the output using the console.app
December 11th, 2009· 4 Finger Click for Macbook Touchpad
· Fixed some clicking problems (hopefully)
· Global should now be always on top
December 10th, 2009· adds CAD / 3D support to the single finger middle click. Also the “real x finger click” options are not needed anymore. Just assign the middle click and it should work for every application.
· adds dock menu for those of you who only show the dock icon and not the menubar icon
· may fix problem with “hide all windows”
· you can now select if the window moving actions should move the focused window or the window under the cursor (Preferences => General)
· 0.419 fixes bug that caused the preferences window not to open via hotkey
December 9th, 2009· Fixes the three finger click on touchpads again (that was/is a very strange error..).
December 8th, 2009· Had a typo in the code. Please download 0.416 and try again.
December 8th, 2009· fixes a bug causing other customized clicks not to work if single finger middle click is enabled
December 7th, 2009· Added predefined action “Hide All Windows” which is similar to “show desktop” but I like it much more.
· Removed battery indicator until I have a working solution.
December 7th, 2009· May improve cpu usage, especially for touchpadusers.
· Open Application / File action (very basic, just hacked it in, but will improve the displaying soon)
December 5th, 2009· Set modifier keys for gestures (FN, CTRL,ALT,CMD) this brings you a whole lot of new customize possibilities.
· Touchpad: sensitivity slider for zoom and rotate
· If you need a real middleclick (e.g. for CAD) atm you have to activate it in your Mouse Preferences.
December 4th, 2009· Set modifier keys for gestures (FN, CTRL,ALT,CMD) this brings you a whole lot of new customize possibilites.
· Touchpad: sensitivity slider for zoom and rotate.
December 4th, 2009· Set modifier keys for gestures (FN, CTRL,ALT,CMD) this brings you a whole lot of new customize possibilities.
· Touchpad: sensitivity slider for zoom and rotate
December 1st, 2009· Added slider to set the sensitivity of cmd+scroll (in the mouse preferences in the tab “other gestures”) and fixed a little bug.
· Fixed a bug with brightness up / down with cmd+scrolling gesture, instead of cmd
November 30th, 2009This version brings some media keys as predefined actions:
· Volume UP
· Volume Down
· Mute
· Play/Pause
· Previous/Next (but I think they don’t really work)
· Brightness UP/Down
· Eject
November 28th, 2009· fixed bug in zooming alorithm (if you experience false positives with zooming, go to the preferences and activate the zooming options)
· option to launch on startup
· improved conflicting tap2click and normal click
· some bugfixes
· not yet available via autoupdate
November 27th, 2009· May fix some bugs with three finger swipes and three finger taps and maybe two finger swipes.
November 27th, 2009· Worked on userinterface.
· Zooming sensitivity.
· Better false positive recognition for zooming can be activated (only if horizontal zooming is disallowed).
November 27th, 2009· a few mini bugfixes
· show login window action
November 26th, 2009· A little bug fix release, adjusts some default settings. Horizontal zooming is now deactivated by default.
November 25th, 2009· tries to fix three finger tap, thee finger swipe and four finger tap
· some bug fixes
· move to previous window action
November 24th, 2009· Again little improvements to hinder false positives from triggering.
· I have been using this for about half an hour with nearly all magic mouse gestures activated and had no false positives. But it needs some training and getting used to.
· If you had freezing issues before set sleep display to any gesture you like, it most probably will unfreeze everything for you if triggered.
November 24th, 2009· This version may prevent the accidental triggering of two and three finger swipes.
November 24th, 2009· This version may stop the unwanted scrolling after doing a swipe gesture on the magic mouse.
November 23rd, 2009· Option to disable one finger scrolling, but will only work perfect if momentum is disabled (was requested sometimes).
· Three finger click improved (should give you less false positives).
November 23rd, 2009Bug fix:
· Three finger click and three finger tap shouldn’t conflict anymore.
· Two finger click and two finger tap shouldn’t conflict anymore.
November 23rd, 2009· three finger click and three finger tap shouldn’t conflict anymore
· two finger click and two finger tap shouldn’t conflict anymore
· Special note to clear things up: If you want a REAL middleclick (e.g. if you are using CAD software) , this is atm only possible using three finger click and two finger click with their action set to “Middleclick”
November 23rd, 2009· adjusted TipTap gesture
· adjusted two finger click (you still have to lift your fingers before clicking)
· fixed bugs in two finger taps
· fixed bugs with two finger swipes in combination with two finger taps
· some other bugfixes
· if you have problems try the reset button in the preferences (you should hit this one everytime you upgrade (at least in the next few releases))
· if you have problems with two finger taps and two finger swipes try to lower the one and two finger recognition time to about 0.14
· you can delete all magic mouse gestures from the touchpad tab if you upgraded
November 21st, 2009· Adjusted TipTap gesture
· Adjusted two finger click (you still have to lift your fingers before clicking)
· Fixed bugs in two finger taps
· Fixed bugs with two finger swipes in combination with two finger taps
· Some other bugfixes
· If you have problems try the reset button in the preferences (you should hit this one everytime you upgrade (at least in the next few releases))
· If you have problems with two finger taps and two finger swipes try to lower the one and two finger recognition time to about 0.14
November 21st, 2009· This version may improve the sensitivity of the new TipTap gesture
November 20th, 2009· Fixes bug with 3 finger taps.
November 20th, 2009· Little fix for single finger taps.
November 20th, 2009· Fixes bug with 3 finger swipes on magic mouse.
November 20th, 2009· this version brings not many new things, I cleaned up my code so I can work faster now
· I rewrote bigger parts of my algorithms, especially for three finger tapping. So please report bugs with those.
· Some more advanced preferences
November 20th, 2009· Application Switcher can now be selected in action dropdown. This is very experimental.
November 20th, 2009· This version brings not many new things.
· Cleaned up code so it can work faster now.
· Rewrote bigger parts of algorithms, especially for three finger tapping.
· Some more advanced preferences.
November 20th, 2009· 0.339 may fix two finger click (magic)… you have to lift your fingers before clicking.
· added four finger tap to macbook touchpad ( you may have to set a lower pressure and a higher time in the advanced tab and there in the tab touchpad)
· may have fixed draglock issue (but not sure)
· some internal changes
November 19th, 2009· 2 finger click implementation.
November 19th, 2009· You can set the pressure needed before it triggers in the advanced tap in the preferences.
November 18th, 2009· single finger tap right (magic)
· single finger tap left (magic): this means you can set left click to the left half of the magic mouse and rightclick to the right half of the magic mouse
· Mousespeed should now be saved even after restart
November 18th, 2009· May fix the one two and three finger taps.
November 18th, 2009· Just a quick and dirty fix for 0.331. Two finger tap is still not working correctly.
November 18th, 2009· Scrolling with more than one finger down allowed if no custom up / down gestures are set
November 17th, 2009· An experimental version with tap2click (you have to add single tap as gesture and then set Leftclick as action).
November 17th, 2009This version brings a new global shortcut which you should remember:
· CTRL+ALT+CMD + Q
· This key combo quits BetterTouchTool immediately and should work even if your system froze. After hitting this combo everything should work again.
November 17th, 2009· fixed three finger swipes, rotate etc on macbook
· added experimental two finger tap to magic mouse
November 17th, 2009· fixes bug which caused global gestures to stop working
· middleclick behavior has changed (if you middleclick the click “holds” until you release your fingers from pressing). If you don’t want this behavior use cmd+click, it does basically the same like a middleclick
· fixed many little things.
· 3 finger click is working on the touchpad too (if you set the one for the magic mouse, atm there is no seperate one for the touchpad)
November 17th, 2009· Should hinder the three finger tap from triggering (at least a bit) after executing a three finger swipe on the magic mouse.
November 12th, 2009· fast restart button and menuitem
· update button in prefs
· exit button in prefs
· NO three finger swipes for magic mouse atm. Will be back soon (working I hope)
November 10th, 2009· Fixed some of the bugs.
November 9th, 2009· Now four finger swipes can be changed! In order to do this you have to deactivate the standard four finger swipe actions in the system preferences!
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