Customize repeated half action cycles

[alexisgaziello]

Hey!

I am a big fan of this app. One of the features I use the most is the "repeated half action cycles". But I would like to customize those cycles a little. Instead of rotating over 3 positions, I would like to expand it to 4, being the last one a window that would cover the screen horizontally around 7/8s.

Of course, I am not assuming that not everybody will want this fourth option, so the idea would be to add an option to customize the steps and fractions of the cycle.

I have seen that the cycle is defined in the protocol RepeatedExecutionsInThirdsCalculation. The idea would be to get the parameters of this protocol dynamically instead of hard-coding them.

If I work on a feature to customize the cycle through some kind of table that would appear when pressing a button in the preferences, would it be accepted?

Thanks,
Alexis

[rxhanson]

Thanks for looking to contribute to Rectangle!

This type of behavior is easily achieved in the custom shortcut builder in my paid superset of Rectangle, Hookshot.

If you're really wanting to add this in, I would consider a pull request, but I wouldn't want to add any changes to the user interface. At first cut this would mean something configurable only using terminal commands.

[alexisgaziello]

Awesome! I will look into it.
We could have something like:

default write com.knollsoft.Rectangle cycle -string "1/2 2/3 1/3"

default write com.knollsoft.Rectangle cycle -string "1/2 2/3 7/8 1/3"

And then maybe parse that string in the app. What do you think? I have no idea if this is possible (or the best way to do it).

Maybe an array would be more appropriate?

default write com.knollsoft.Rectangle cycle -array [0.5, 0.66, 0.85, 0.33]

I have worked with software but not with OS X apps. I would greatly appreciate it if you could point me in the right direction. Maybe files I should check, links that I could use as a reference.

Thank you!

[alexisgaziello]

Or maybe I should just get Hookshot 😂