Macro Unintentionally Firing Multiple Times on Single Keyboard Shortcut Tap?

Questions & Suggestions
1

Has anyone ever seen a macro firing multiple times on a single (keyboard trigger event).

Any thoughts about how that could arise ?

(I'm getting a report from someone using Monterey and KM 10 – I'm using the latter, but still on Big Sur – for better or for worse I prefer to lag behind a year or two)

(FWIW here is the macro and the subroutine that its uses. Not easy for others to test because it depends on the installation of a special font. But perhaps someone will spot something that I'm overlooking ?)

Copy as CHORD Macros.kmmacros (32.1 KB)

2

Have you tried opening the debugger for new macros? And perhaps press the checkbox "pause new macros". If you step through it, you might see why it's triggering twice.

3

Well, I'm not seeing any multiple triggering myself – it seems to be working quite simply on my system.

It's a good thought though, I'll recommend it and see if anything is learned.

4

Apparently it's been solved, and wasn't a Keyboard Maestro issue.

(I understand that it was tracked down to an interaction with Better Touch Tool)

Many thanks for giving it thought !

5

If the macro runs long enough, you could stick a Semaphore at the start so if it gets run a second time right away, you could just abort the second macro. Depending on the macro, you could even put a "pause" at the end of it (after it's done its work) so it's still active when the second instance first off.

I hope that's clear.

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