The problem is I don't know if it went through or not without notification, sometimes it goes through, sometimes it doesn't, the trackpad can be finicky with how you place your fingers, it doesn't always register, at least on my crappy old macbook, btt has a huge ugly hud feature that will notify you of this that an action did indeed go through, but it will distract from the video, but a small menu bar notice will not.
I thought BitBar was dead, I payed the few dollars for TextBar, I was happy to pay just for the time machine script alone (yours I believe), that is really helpful, I could never really tell what was going on with time machine, was annoying.ītt is pretty much like keyboard maestro, with less advanced possibilities, but with lots of focus on trackpad, which is useful if you use trackpad to primarily control your mac/macbook, but it can be combined nicely with km.Ībout the btt forum, majority of posts do not get responses, so your experience was not unique to you, I think I got 1 response out of like 10 questions, it's kind of aggravating, I don't expect response to every post, but why have a forum if nobody hardly uses it, the dev is there and reads but rarely responds, this community is much preferred by me personally.Īnyway, about the TextBar, I don't want it to update every few seconds, I would want it to be a fleeting menu bar notication to confirm that an action (same thing basically as km macro in btt terms), or macro in km, has just occured.įor example, I finetune spotify playlists quickly in the background while watching streaming movies/tv with subtitles or youtube/twitch, (I'm weird I know), by trackpad gestures in btt, some linked to km, for example three finger swipe down will delete a playing song I don't like from current playlist, without leaving the video to go to spotify and do this, Hi, nice to meet you, glad you found my post about this, I think you're the expert on this, I've asked around elsewhere and no responses, I don't think anyone knows what I'm talking about because it's pretty niche subject. If you can give me/us some more info on what you are trying to accomplish, the chances are greater that we can help. I'm assuming that you have some reason for not wanting to just use macOS' notification system. What is more important: being notified as soon as it ran, or just being able to tell how long it has been since it last ran, or something else?ĭo you want that menu bar notification to stick around until the next time it runs? If not, how long should it stay? What does the macro do or what action do you want it to do? What would really help would be to have at least a basic understanding on what you are trying to do: Which doesn't mean we can't use it that way, just that we need to get creative about it. They aren't really intended to be used as a notification system for something like Keyboard Maestro. The issue with both BitBar and TextBar is going to be that they expect to be updating themselves every "X" seconds or minutes. The developer is there, though, so that's cool. Re: BetterTouchTool forum - I’d really like to learn BTT better, but the one question I’ve ever asked on the BTT was basically “What are some cool uses for BTT?” and I basically got no responses. TextBar is only a couple dollars but that’s enough to put people off of it. Re: BitBar vs TextBar - I’ve been a big fan of TextBar, but BitBar (which had been mostly dead, I thought) seems to have had a resurgence.