"Swipe up/down with three" no longer compatible with system "Swipe with Three Fingers"

[rammlive]

In version 1.35 "Swipe up/down with three" no longer compatible with system "Swipe with Three Fingers". Why so? It's literally killed my workflow. It was fine with previous version.

[rxhanson]

Sorry about that. I reverted the change that caused this in v1.36: https://multitouch.app/downloads/multitouch1.36.dmg

Let me know if there are still any issues.

[rammlive]

It works now, thanks!

[galanator]

Hello,

I am currently devastated as I temporarily added a three finger down-swipe gesture for something and then removed it instantly but now my three finger drag across MacOS has stopped working even after restarting.

It works if I quit Multitouch and before this experiment I didn't face any such issue between OS-level three finger drag and your app :/

Could you please look into this ASAP? I don't want to have to give up my very very very important three finger drag abilities to some small bug in Multitouch.

Thanks for making the app otherwise, I love it and happily have paid for it!

[rxhanson]

@galanator Do you still have a three finger gesture configured in Multitouch, like a three finger click, or are there any other gestures that you recently added that might conflict? If you send me your configuration I can load it and see what might cause this. In the menu bar item for Multitouch, go to Help > Debug > Copy debug info to clipboard.

[galanator]

[rxhanson]

Force Touch with three touches is your conflicting gesture. If you remove that one, your three finger drag should work again.

[galanator]

But it hasn't been an issue before (I'm pretty sure), are you saying I need to let go of it entirely or can I remove and add again?

[rxhanson]

The three finger Force Touch gesture in Multitouch will intercept click events when three touches are on the trackpad, and three finger drag will generate a click that is indistinguishable from a normal click so there is no way for Multitouch to know to let that click pass through. If it worked before, it was simply by chance where Multitouch might not have been properly intercepting clicks due to the timing here being rather delicate.

I'll look back through things here, I might have a hidden option for making the three/four finger Force Touch gestures allow clicks to pass through, if you're interested in that.