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I was wondering if it’s possible to define the time it takes for the pallete to disappear. It seems to me always to fast...is there an option to leave the pallete open until an action Is pressed? I
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How exactly do you have your palette(s) set up? As far as I know, they shouldn't be disappearing on their own by default (and to answer your question, yes, there's an option to keep them up until a hotkey is pressed or other action is taken).
thx @gglick
this is my macro
There's an option to keep them up until a hotkey is pressed or other action is taken
i tried several of them including the "always activated" ones with no success
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What about either the "Shows/hides a palette when" or "Shows a palette until" options? Those are supposed to keep the palette up until you explicitly dismiss it.
Do you have a periodic macro that is running at hight frequency? Any triggered macro will count as “one action” which would close the palette.
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@JMichaelTX the option "shows/hide a palette when:" for me bring up the pallet without timing out but dosent hide it once an action is pressed
@peternlewis: i do have one cron type macro that just collects info from a text file and indeed siabeling this seems to gave solved this! Anyway around this? (macro below)
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Version 9 drops this behaviour. Though it may end up returning if it proves to be problematic.
The issue is that macros might change things such that the palette no longer makes sense.
Changing applications, or typing anything will still dismiss the palette, but a macro like yours that just works in the background will no longer dismiss the palette.
You might want to put an instant timeout, non-notifying Semaphore Lock action at the start of that macro. Otherwise if there is some network issue that causes a delay in the action (eg a DNS issue) you could end up with a whole pile of those macros all executing at the same time waiting on the DNS to resolve.
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just to clarify @JMichaelTX that "shows/hides a palette when:" options brings up the palette and dosent hide it after the launch of a macro but keeps it up until i hit the hotkey again? That’s the correct behaviour?
Correct. It is toggled on and off. If there are other conditions (like only in certain applications), then it will still remember its toggle state, but it will only be available in the specified application, when the toggle state is on.
Note that this state is not remembered when the Keyboard Maestro Engine is quit and relaunched.
What software is the bubble on your screenshot? Thank you.
Very cool.