RapidClick now shows a countdown to the next click. The update was long overdue, also fixing a long standing problem where RapidClick would crash if the user denied the system Accessibility permission prompt. Now there is a proper welcome UI flow to guide the user to enable the permission. Every developer loves the Secutiry & Privacy preferences pane. This permission prompt is the kind of UI flow that is really fiddly to make, and yet the user sees it only once in the lifetime of the app. If it is implemented well, they probably never really notice it it all. I did it here with this kind of bubble thing. It’s also now RapidClick’s 10 year anniversary. I don’t talk about RapidClick very much – it is a very simple app and it’s not especially interesting to most people. And yet, it was a very important step in my Mac development “career”. It was the second app I ever published – a few months before PopClip.Īt that time I had already released DwellClick (both 1.0 and 2.0), which I had spent more than a year of my life working on. It sold very few copies and I was close to giving up. It was RapidClick that actually broke through and sold enough to make me think there might be some possibility in this whole app development thing. RapidClick first appeared on the Mac App Store on 25th March 2011. It started as an offshoot from DwellClick, my assistive app for using a Mac without pressing a mouse button. I play Farm Town and need a mouse that ‘clicks’ as soon as I hover over a section to be harvested or plowed.” A DwellClick customer had emailed me: “The mouse is not fast enough for me.
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