Multi-Touch + MultiClutch + Quicksilver = Heaven

[dmanrevived]

Weird, I installed Multiclutch and it's acting weird for global gestures.

I set swipe down to activate F8 for spaces globally, but it only seems to work in system preferences or Firefox (the only application I also added gestures for. It's not working on the desktop or in any other program.

 

[petermcphee]

Thanks to the OP for the heads up about this program. It makes my MacBook even more of a pleasure to use. I found the set up a lot easier after reading this thread.

The multi-touch pad makes so many of the functions non-keyboard dependent. It's great, and multi-clutch makes it even better.

Thanks again!

 

[fishniw]

Weird, I installed Multiclutch and it's acting weird for global gestures.

I set swipe down to activate F8 for spaces globally, but it only seems to work in system preferences or Firefox (the only application I also added gestures for. It's not working on the desktop or in any other program.

yeah i am having the same problem. my global gestures don't work in finder or itunes

 

[ebika]

Somewhere in the release notes for multiclutch it mentioned that it will not work for non-cocoa apps. If I remember correctly, both Finder and iTunes are still Carbon apps.

 

[fishniw]

Somewhere in the release notes for multiclutch it mentioned that it will not work for non-cocoa apps. If I remember correctly, both Finder and iTunes are still Carbon apps.

aha, yeah that would explain it. you are correct

 

[jarekanderson]

On Will Hendersons site there are a few people who have said that they have been able to configure a global swipe for pausing and then playing iTunes... I'm new to mac and can't figure out how there would be a global command for this, wouldn't you have ot hav the window highlighted???

But there are definately people who have said they were able to do this in the comments on that site.

What does carbon app mean??? Is that like the programming language or something?

 

[ebika]

Carbon and Cocoa refer to the underlying application programming interface (API) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocoa_(API) . Which API is used by applications matters in part for which messages the applications are able to "see." It is important to note that the choice of APIs is not limited to one... an application can use as many APIs as it needs, but they will typically stick to one primary one for fundamental things like handling mouse clicks/gestures.

I haven't really looked into it much, but I would guess the Carbon API was not updated to convey multitouch information to applications (total guess here). That might explain why having an application in focus might disrupt the multitouch gestures. Most of the tricks in the multiclutch comments seem to involve getting something written against the Cocoa API to have focus.

The reason you don't have to have an application highlighted to have global gestures act upon it is because all the Cocoa applications are passing multitouch gesture events to a central place. They all pass them along to that multiclutch inputmanager (among other places). Multiclutch is sent all kinds of messages and can act on some of them to perform actions on other stuff (not just the application in focus). If the application in focus isn't passing the information to multiclutch, that breaks the chain of communication. I expect all of the Apple-written applications to be moved to Cocoa for Snow Leopard.

 

[jarekanderson]

that's great info.. thanks! Snow Leopard being 10.6 right???

So maybe I'm totally out to lunch here... but because there's no global shortcut for play/pause in iTunes when the program is not 'in focus', then there is no way for multiclutch to do this with a gesture... right? Or am I totally wrong here.

sorry... I'm kind of windows hungover still... haha