Acces to Macbook Pro's Touch bar

lesespejo's icon

Is there any way, or have any of you clever people accessed the MacBook Pro touch bar ?

I've been try with the key object with no success. Could there be another way ? Maybe an external...

Touch bar could be a really nice UI for many patches.

Aaron Wharton's icon

Agreed -- I've seen MIDI Touchbar, but I'd be curious to know more about how to go about creating my own GUI, etc.

vichug's icon

yes, through [hi] object ; select peripheral named "iBridge Display". It may be insufficient though depending on your needs (it reports presses location, but no idea how to send stuff to the bar.)

Aaron Wharton's icon

Aha, ok I see. Yeah, I'd be interested in figuring out how to populate the bar with customized gui elements, etc. Thanks so much for the response. :)

vichug's icon

sure ! although let me thank you for letting me now about midi touchbar... this thing could actually have a use ???
Also, to customize the touchbar, apparently there is this open source app, "pock" : https://pock.dev/ so if you feel like a warrior, you can look at the source and make it a Max external :)) https://github.com/pigigaldi/Pock
(hey @cycling74 why not extend mira's capabilities into touchbar ?? like a mira.touchbar.frame...)