BetterTouchTool is not available for Windows but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Windows with similar functionality. The most popular Windows alternative is AutoHotkey, which is both free and Open Source. This method will update the contents of a Touch Bar Script Widget (identified by its uuid). You can provide a new text to show, a new icon and a new background color. For the icon you can either provide it directly using the icondata parameter (must be base64 encoded) or you can provide a file path (via the iconpath parameter) that points to. BetterTouchTool Touch Bar Presets. Contribute to vas3k/btt-touchbar-presets development by creating an account on GitHub. Improved Touch Bar visibility behavior after system sleep, if it still doesn't work for you set a 'after sleep delay' in the advanced Touch Bar settings in BTT. Fixed randomly stuck Touch Bar buttons when using key repeat Significantly reduced false positive rate for the Tip Tap gesture. Improved performance.
Important: This feature is mostly useful if you want to trigger BetterTouchTool functionality from outside of BTT. If you want to use scripts inside of BTT (like in Touch Bar widgets or script actions) use the JavaScript or Apple Script scripting options.
BetterTouchTool allows to be control via a custom url scheme (btt://).On this page I'm briefly describing the various functions you can trigger via this URL scheme.
The available scripting interfaces are:
- trigger_named
- trigger_named_async_without_response
- update_touch_bar_widget
- trigger_action
- execute_assigned_actions_for_trigger
- refresh_widget
- update_trigger
- add_new_trigger
- delete_trigger
- set_persistent_string_variable
- set_string_variable
- set_persistent_number_variable
- set_number_variable
Note: Custom URL Schemes can not return values to the calling application/browser. If you need that (e.g. after executing a shell script in BTT from outside of), please see the integrated webserver section
Security
BetterTouchTool will ask you the first time you use a btt:// trigger whether you want to allow that. However it doesn't make sense to always continue asking that question as it would destroy the purpose of this.
So to improve security you can define a shared secret which then must be included in all btt:// urls like this: btt://the_function_you_want_to_use/?shared_secret=YourSecret
The shared secret can be defined in the advanced preferences
Available Scripting Interfaces
Example Terminal Command (but you can call the URL however you like)
trigger_named
This method will trigger the specified named trigger (which can be configured in the 'Other' tab in BetterTouchTool.)
update_touch_bar_widget
This method will update the contents of a Touch Bar Script Widget (identified by its uuid). Gopanel 1 9 4 – manage web servers unavailable. You can provide a new text to show, a new icon and a new background color.
For the icon you can either provide it directly using the icon_data parameter (must be base64 encoded) or you can provide a file path that points to the new icon (via the icon_path parameter).
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Example Terminal Command (but you can call the URL however you like)
trigger_action
This method will trigger any of BetterTouchTool's predefined actions (or any combination of them).
You need to provide a JSON description of the action you want to trigger. The easiest way to get such a JSON description is to right-click the trigger you have configured in BetterTouchTool and choose 'Copy JSON'. This will copy the complete JSON (including the configuration for the trigger itself), but this action will ignore anything that's not needed. (or you can delete the not needed parts)
Example Terminal Command (but you can call the URL however you like)
execute_assigned_actions_for_trigger
This method execute all the assigned actions for a given trigger (i.e. gesture, shortcut, drawing etc.) identified by its uuid.
You can get the uuid by right-clicking any configured trigger in BetterTouchTool.
Example Terminal Command (but you can call the URL however you like)
refresh_widget
This method will execute all scripts assigned to a script widget and update its contents accordingly.
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Example Terminal Command (but you can call the URL however you like)
update_trigger
This method will update the configuration of any trigger you have configured in BTT (i.e. gestures, shortcuts, touchbar items etc.).
You need to provide the uuid of the trigger you want to update (get by right-clicking it in BTT) and a JSON object defining the updates. To know how the JSON object should look like, right-click the trigger in BTT and choose 'Copy JSON'.
Example Terminal Command (but you can call the URL however you like)
add_new_trigger
Btt Touch Bar
This method will add a new trigger to BTT (i.e. gestures, shortcuts, touchbar items etc.).
You need to provide a JSON object defining the new trigger. To know how the JSON object should look like, right-click any existing trigger in BTT and choose 'Copy JSON'.
Example Terminal Command (but you can call the URL however you like)
delete_trigger
This method will delete a trigger from BetterTouchTool.You need to provide the uuid of the trigger you want to delete (get by right-clicking it in BTT).
Btt Mac Touch Bar
Example Terminal Command (but you can call the URL however you like)
set_persistent_string_variable
This allows you to set a variable to a given string that persists over BTT relaunches.
Example Terminal Command (but you can call the URL however you like)
set_string_variable
This allows you to set a variable to a given string that persists over BTT relaunches.
Example Terminal Command (but you can call the URL however you like)
set_persistent_number_variable
This allows you to set a variable to a given number that persists over BTT relaunches.
Example Terminal Command (but you can call the URL however you like)
set_number_variable
This allows you to set a variable to a given number for the runtime of BTT.
Example Terminal Command (but you can call the URL however you like)
