My TouchBar. My rules

My the idea is to create the program like a platform for plugins for customization TouchBar. I very like BTT and a full custom TouchBar (my BTT preset). And I want to create it. And it's my the first Swift project for MacOS :)

Roadmap

• Create the first prototype with TouchBar in Storyboard
• Put in stripe menu on startup the application
• Find how to simulate real buttons like brightness, volume, night shift and etc.
• Time in touchbar!
• First the weather plugin
• Find how to open full-screen TouchBar without the cross and stripe menu
• Find how to add haptic feedback
• Add icon and menu in StatusBar
• Hide from Dock
• Status menu: "preferences", "quit"
• JSON or another approch for save preset, maybe in ~/Library/Application Support/MTMR/
• Custom buttons size, actions by click
• Layout: [always left, NSSliderView for center, always right]
• Overwrite default values from item types (e.g. title for brightness)
• Custom settings for paddings and margins for buttons
• XPC Service for scripts
• UI for settings
• Import config from BTT
• System for autoupdate (maybe https://sparkle-project.org/)

Settings:

• Intarface for plugins and export like presets
• Startup at login
• Show on/off in Dock
• Show on/off in StatusBar
• On/off Haptic Feedback

Maybe:

• Refactoring the application on packages (AppleScript, JavaScript? and Swift?)

Installation

1. Download last release Releases
2. Open MTMR
3. Open preset open ~/Library/Application\ Support/MTMR/items.json and customize it. Restart MTMR to apply changes.

Preset

File for customize your preset for MTMR: open ~/Library/Application\ Support/MTMR/items.json

Built-in button types:

• escape
• exitTouchbar
• brightnessUp
• brightnessDown
• volumeDown
• volumeUp
• mute
• dock

Native Plugins

• battery
• currency
• weather

Media Keys

• previous
• play
• next

AppleScript plugins

• sleep
• displaySleep

Built-in slider types:

• brightness
• volume

You can also make a custom buttons using these types

• staticButton

 "type": "staticButton",
 "title": "esc",

• appleScriptTitledButton

    "type": "appleScriptTitledButton",
    "refreshInterval": 60, //optional
    "source": {
      "filePath": "/Users/toxblh/Library/Application Support/MTMR/iTunes.nowPlaying.scpt",
      // or
      "inline": "tell application \"Finder\"\rmake new Finder window\rset target of front window to path to home folder as string\ractivate\rend tell",
      // or
      "base64": "StringInbase64"
    },

• timeButton

  "type": "timeButton",
  "formatTemplate": "HH:mm" //optional

Native plugins

• weather

Provider: https://openweathermap.org Need allowance location service

  "type": "weather",
  "refreshInterval": 600,
  "units": "metric", // or imperial
  "icon_type": "text" // or images
  "api_key": "" // you can get the key on openweather

• currency

Provider: https://coinbase.com

  "type": "currency",
  "refreshInterval": 600,
  "align": "right",
  "from": "BTC",
  "to": "USD",

Actions:

• hidKey

https://github.com/aosm/IOHIDFamily/blob/master/IOHIDSystem/IOKit/hidsystem/ev_keymap.h use only numbers

 "action": "hidKey",
 "keycode": 53,

• keyPress

 "action": "keyPress",
 "keycode": 1,

• appleScript

 "action": "appleScript",
 "actionAppleScript": {
     "inline": "tell application \"Finder\"\rmake new Finder window\rset target of front window to path to home folder as string\ractivate\rend tell"
    // "filePath" or "base64" will work as well
 },

• shellScript

 "action": "shellScript",
 "executablePath": "/usr/bin/pmset",
 "shellArguments": ["sleepnow"], // optional

• openUrl

 "action": "openUrl",
 "url": "https://google.com",

Additional paramaters:

• width allow to restrict how much room a particular button will take

  "width": 34

• align can stick the item to the side. default is center

  "align": "left" //or "right" or "center"

Example configuration:

[
  { "type": "escape", "width": 110 },
  { "type": "exitTouchbar", "align": "left" },
  {
    "type": "brightnessUp",
    "align": "left",
    "width": 36
  },
  {
    "type": "staticButton",
    "align": "left",
    "title": "🔆",
    "action": "keyPress",
    "keycode": 113,
    "width": 36
  },

  {
    "type": "appleScriptTitledButton",
    "source": {
      "filePath": "/Users/toxblh/Library/Application Support/MTMR/iTunes.nowPlaying.scpt"
    },
    "refreshInterval": 1
  },
 {
    "type": "staticButton",
    "align": "left",
    "image": { "base64" : "%base64Finder%"},
    "action": "appleScript",
    "actionAppleScript": {
        "inline": "tell application \"Finder\"\rmake new Finder window\rset target of front window to path to home folder as string\ractivate\rend tell"
    },
    "width": 36
  },
  {
    "type": "appleScriptTitledButton",
    "source": {
      "inline": "if application \"Safari\" is running then\r\ttell application \"Safari\"\r\t\trepeat with t in tabs of windows\r\t\t\ttell t\r\t\t\t\tif URL starts with \"https:\/\/music.yandex.ru\" and name does not end with \"на Яндекс.Музыке\" then\r\t\t\t\t\treturn name of t as text\r\t\t\t\tend if\r\t\t\tend tell\r\t\tend repeat\r\tend tell\rend if\rreturn \"\""
    },
    "refreshInterval": 1
  },
  { "type": "previous", "width": 36, "align": "right" },
  { "type": "play", "width": 36, "align": "right" },
  { "type": "next", "width": 36, "align": "right" },
  { "type": "sleep", "width": 36 , "align": "right"},
  { "type": "displaySleep", "align": "right" },
  { "type": "weather", "refreshInterval": 1800, "width": 70, "align": "right" },
  { "type": "volumeDown", "width": 36 , "align": "right"},
  { "type": "volumeUp", "width": 36 , "align": "right"},
  { "type": "battery", "refreshInterval": 60 , "align": "right"},
  { "type": "appleScriptTitledButton", "refreshInterval": 1800, "source": { "filePath": "/Users/redetection/Library/Application Support/MTMR/Weather.scpt"} , "align": "right"},
  { "type": "timeButton", "formatTemplate": "HH:mm", "width": 64, "align": "right" }
]

Author's presets

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@ReDetection preset

Credits

Built by @Toxblh and @ReDetection.