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Issue and feature request tracking for the Multitouch app
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MacOS three finger drag no longer works when three finger click is configured #53

Closed rxhanson closed 4 years ago

rxhanson commented 5 years ago

This might not be something I can fix. You may just have to disable three finger click and use a different gesture if you still want macOS three finger drag.

rxhanson commented 5 years ago

The three finger drag actually posts a down click when three fingers are on the trackpad and an up click when the fingers leave. The down and up click are not distinguishable from a physical click. In order for three finger click to work, the physical down and up clicks are discarded and replaced with the functionality assigned in Multitouch. Therefore, Multitouch is always going to discard three finger drag down clicks.

The only way to work around this would be to implement three finger drag in Multitouch, and a user would use that instead of Apple's. That work might not be put into Multitouch any time soon.

rxhanson commented 4 years ago

I actually took a look at this one again, and there's really no elegant way to implement three finger drag as a 3rd party dev. Closing this one out since there's nothing I can do beyond the warning that's currently in the app.