Center the touch bar (or) fill the whole bottom

[esteszeke]

As tittle suggests. When pressing Fn it appears on screen closest to the mouse pointer. If you do it at the base of the screen it shows up alined, but only extending from one corner or the other, leaving about one inch from either the right or the left.

non-retina MacBook Pro 2010-mid.

Works great so far, though, I love it!

[robbertkl]

Hi, thank you for your feedback. The Fn-toggle was designed to appear at your mouse pointer when needed, and to be dismissed when you're done. It isn't really meant to be stationary on the screen. However, if you put your mouse pointer in the bottom center of the screen, the Touch Bar should appear centered and aligned to the bottom of the screen. The Touch Bar is rendered at it's original resolution, which is 1085x30. I assume you're running your MacBook Pro on a 1280x800 resolution, so this should leave 195px (or around 97 on each side if centered).

We're considering adding a stationary, permanent on-screen Touch Bar that sticks to the bottom of the screen, but this will be separate from the Fn-toggle option. For this Touch Bar, we would make it extend to the full width of your screen, either by scaling the Touch Bar, or adding black regions left and right.

[julianschiavo]

Around how much time until this feature is implemented? (@robbertkl)

[robbertkl]

No idea yet. Please note that this is just a demo app, not a fully featured product. That being said, we might still add some small features in the coming days/weeks.

[nakulbajaj]

Hi @esteszeke,

If you're up for it, you can try to install the modified version that I made which always centers the Touch Bar to the bottom. (attached) Of course, it will not update like the genuine version. Let me know if it works for you. Keep in mind that it will interfere with the dock if the dock is kept at the bottom.

Thanks

TouchBarServer.app.zip

[MarcoBrandao]

However, if you put your mouse pointer in the bottom center of the screen, the Touch Bar should appear centered and aligned to the bottom of the screen.

Thank you for this tip, now I moved my dock to the left side of my screen.

[fulldecent]

I like this feature's idea of

• Pressing FN to enable/disable touch bar
• Locating the touch bar at the bottom-center of the screen

I would prefer this to https://github.com/bikkelbroeders/TouchBarDemoApp/issues/3#issuecomment-258667435 that is

• Enable touch bar permanently
• Locating the touch bar at the bottom-center of the screen

[julianschiavo]

Hey @nakulbajaj can you give us the source code for your version please?

[nakulbajaj]

Hi @wwdc17

All I really did was switch out [_touchBarWindow setFrameOrigin:self.mouseTouchOrigin];

in the toggleTouchBarWindow method in AppDelegate.m of TouchBarServer with

NSRect e = [[NSScreen mainScreen] frame];
int width = (int)e.size.width - 1095;
width = width/2;
NSPoint centerBottomPoint = CGPointMake(width, 0);
[_touchBarWindow setFrameOrigin:centerBottomPoint];

I understand that it's not neat but it works! I did some math there to figure out the width of the screen and then found the x value knowing that the touch bar width seems to be 1095. Should work for all screen sizes.

[julianschiavo]

OK, thanks! I'm gonna work with my 0.1% proficiency to make it have black bars on either side :P

[julianschiavo]

You wanna submit a pull request or should I?

[nakulbajaj]

I could submit a PR but I decided not to just because I don't want it to default to the center and bottom. I want the user to be able to continue choosing a different location with their mouse.

Do you mind adding another menu item which can enable the functionality I made? Just a boolean that can be enabled or disabled?

Then by all means you can submit a PR 👍

[julianschiavo]

I don't even know how... 😞

[julianschiavo]

@robbertkl Can you guys keep supporting this app?

[nakulbajaj]

@wwdc17 If you're just using this app to have TouchBar functionality on your non-touchbar Mac, I strongly recommend Touché

[julianschiavo]

That... doesn't look good. It has a X button which takes up lots of space for nothing. I'd prefer using this 😛