Getting the new Magic Trackpad 2 led me to consider Force Touch on the Mac. I’ve had it on my MacBook for months and now I’ve got it on my iMac yet I rarely use it. I think this has a lot to do with options. On the Mac, you’ve already got a primary click, a secondary click, and a double click. Add to that the three finger tap and the existing gesture library in OS X and you begin to wonder what you’re supposed to do with a Force Touch. (Jason Snell and Myke Hurley have been talking about this on recent episodes of Upgrade.) I think Apple has the same questions because most of the force touch features are actions already accomplished with some other type of tap.
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Then I got thinking about what I could do with Force Touch if I could set the Force Touch actions. This is possible on the Mac using BetterTouchTool. BetterTouchTool is an amazing Mac utility from Andreas Hagenberg. It is donationware–and if you use it you should donate–and it is awesome. BetterTouchTool lets you set custom gestures with your trackpad to perform actions on your Mac. (BetterTouchTool also works with the Magic Mouse, normal mice, keyboard, Apple Remote, Leap Motion, and the BetterTouchTool iPhone app.) BetterTouchTool is flexible. The application recognizes just about anything you could do with up to five digits and a trackpad. If you want a gesture where tap across the trackpad like drumming your fingers, BetterTouchTool can accommodate you. You can even add custom gestures that trigger when you draw a shape on the trackpad.
Either way, once triggered, BetterTouchTool can execute a keyboard combination or perform a system action. For example, when I four finger tap, BetterTouchTool toggles the DragonDictate microphone on and off again. Keyboard maestro 8 0 4 – hot key tasking solutions.
So I’ve been experimenting with Force Touch and BetterTouchTool and come up with some pretty nice custom actions:
When I Force Touch on the lower-left or lower-right portion of the Magic Trackpad 2, My Mac optimizes the current active app for the left or right side of the screen.
Force Touching the upper left corner of the trackpad toggles fullscreen mode for the currently active application on and off.
A four finger Force Touch sleeps my screen and a five finger Force Touch sleeps my iMac.
A three finger Force Touch toggles the play/pause button, which comes in handy when the phone rings.
I guess my point is that while Force Touch on the Mac is clever, it really comes into its own when you combine it with BetterTouchTool. Try it for yourself and let me know what works for you. I’m going to do a follow up post with some user submitted BetterTouchTool recipes soon.
BetterTouchTool currently supports the following touch devices:
Magic Mouse
Magic Mouse 2
Magic Trackpad
Magic Trackpad 2
All multi-touch capable built-in Macbook Trackpads
You can configure many additional gestures for these devices.
In general the setup is pretty straight forward:
You select the device tab
You click the '+Add New Gesture' button
You select the Gesture you want
You assign an action or keyboard shortcut to that gesture
Advanced Gesture Configuration
There are some advanced settings you can make use of. They can be accessed by clicking the little cog icon on the left of the gesture selection button. Mag2go enterprise 2 0 14416 download free.
For example you can make the gesture trigger only on specific trackpad types, you can define a haptic feedback or make a HUD (similar to the macOS volume or brightness change indicators) show up when the gesture is triggered.
Action Repeat While Touching
Starting in version 2.500 you can now also choose to repeat the assigned action as long as a finger is still touching the trackpad after the gesture has been triggered. This doesn't work with all gestures, because e.g. for Three Finger Taps you won't have any fingers touching the trackpad after the gesture has been triggered.
However it can be used e.g. for all click, tip tap and swipe gestures.
Triggering a second action after removing the last touching finger
Starting in version 2.500 you can make a gesture trigger two different actions. The first one is the default action you assign to an action. Video converter movavi 6 2 1 download free. It is triggered when the gesture is recognized. The second one however is a so called 'Named Trigger'.
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If you set a Named Trigger in the advanced settings, it will be executed after you remove the last finger from the trackpad. E.g. if you do a three finger click the default trigger will execute right after the click. However you can still leave your fingers on the trackpad and e.g. move the mouse cursor. Then after you remove the last finger the named trigger will be executed.
This is very useful if you want to set up e.g. a middle click for CAD apps. You could use a three finger click to trigger a 'Middle Mouse Down' and then a 'Middle Mouse Up' after the last finger has left the trackpad / Magic Mouse surface. You can use the predefined action 'More Mouse Buttons & Modifiers / Custom Click' to send separate down/up clicks.
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Named Triggers can be configured in the 'Other' Tab in BetterTouchTool.
Middle Click Example:
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Here we configure the More Mouse Buttons & Modifiers action:
Here we configure the gesture to trigger a Named Trigger: