利用multi clutch榨干触摸板！

The Need to Know:
Title: MultiClutch
Author: Will Henderson
Version: 1.0
Price: Donation
Website: http://wcrawford.org/2008/02/28/everytime-i-think-about-you-i-touch-
my-cell/

MultiClutch is a fairly simple App that installs as a preference pane in your
System Preferences. After the install, you will see the logo above in the “
Other” area of your System Preferences. The layout of the preference pane is
very minimalistic and very simple. On the left side you have a list of
programs that you have MultiClutch enabled on including a “General” category
which will translate across all Cocoa applications. To add an application,
all that you need to do is click the + icon as you do in many MacOS programs
and select the application you desire. On the right side is a list of
multitouch commands and what key press each command will perform.

Now, with the amazing-ness of adding MultiTouch commands to any application,
there are a few things left to be desired. One huge functionality that I would
love to see added to the program is the ability to add single letter commands
without the need for the Command, Option, or Control keys. For example, in
Aperture, I cannot add the ‘f’ key press by itself for going to full screen.
I also cannot add ‘Option+F’ to filter the images. This may not be a big
deal to those people who don’t use Aperture, but this is across the board
including the likes of Photoshop and Gimp. It would also be nice to see some
Carbon functionality added (You can’t use MultiClutch in Finder), even though
this is not the fault of the Author, the addition of this can’t be done
until Apple adds this. Luckily you can combine QuickSilver and MultiClutch and
make a script to do whatever you want, then add what key presses you want to
MultiClutch then to QuickSilver as a trigger (In that order, trust me).

With all of that, I still couldn’t live without the likes of MultiClutch in
Firefox to browse back or in any program be able to zoom out then back in to
lock my computer (Thanks to QuickSilver and a script I wrote, which I then
tied to ‘Command+Option+Control+L’). Even with all of the missing
functionality, MultiClutch is still an Application that any MultiTouch enabled
notebook should not be without. Unfortunately for us, Will has accepted a job
with Apple which means he can’t really work on MultiClutch any longer
without it belonging to Apple (Thanks to the agreement ALL Apple employees
sign when they start working there, I even had to sign one while working as a
Mac Specialist in an Apple Store which pretty much stated *All Your Ideas Are
Belong to Apple*). Luckily for us, Will has made the source code publically
available (which I have and am working on editing) so the Open Source
community can start working on it, and the fact that he is working at Apple
now also means that it is possible that many people at Apple are working on
integrating this into Mac OS as you are reading this.

If you love this program enough to use it everyday, please don’t forget to
donate to Will. I am sure he will appreciate it greatly (I know he sent me a
nice thank you email). Have fun with what should have came from Apple!

Update: I recently found a way to ‘trick’ MultiClutch into accepting single
keypresses (even though they are not really single keypresses at all)! If you
are like me and want to use things like ‘F’ for fullscreen in Aperture or
option + [another key] in any other program, you can simply press ‘fn + F’
for ‘F’ or ‘fn + option + F’ for ‘option + F’ ect. Leave a comment if
this helps anyone!

学到一些



1.在浏览器中三指上下swipe可以直接到网页顶或者尾部，而两指只是慢慢滚屏

2.用multi clutch可以实现用多点触摸来控制很多其他程序，比如我最常用但opera，
swipe左右控制前进后退，rotate right来刷新网页。FF自带了swipe前进后退
功能，但我试图把rotate加进去控制刷新时不行，可能是FF的自带触摸板支持和multi
clutch是冲突的。

3.multi clutch控制finder行为
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已经可以实现，但是由于finder是carbon程序不被multiclutch支持，所以要利用一些
tricks。比如先点开那些carbon程序的help，或者先关掉再开一遍，或者开一个窗口点
help后干脆最小化不管它了。
另外要注意的是要使finder中生效得把鼠标移开finder的窗口

4
用quicksilver和multi clutch结合起来同时编一些脚本来执行，可以实现万把功能

5
multi clutch里不能定义一个按键的快捷键，但是有个小trick，设置快捷键的时候用
fn+某个按键就可以实现。
有时候不能设置的原因是用quicksilver或者spotlight启动的MC面板，可以尝试重新进
sys pref进行设置

6
在面板里设置有困难时可以考虑找到设置文件直接改

7
不能设键时多按个Fn键