[v1.0.2] Touch Bar Done Right!

Wow! Seems like a nice preset you got there!

I very much like your neatly spaced-out controls and layouts, and i'm eyeing your Netflix widget... :eyes:

Also, how did you get that bezel-less Touch Bar? haha :wink:

You probably know me from my preset AquaTouch, and i'd like to ask if i could merge your Netflix toggles into it... of course you'll be credited in the changelog, and within the code too. I just wan to ask for permission and if the merge is okay with you, thats all.

I also recommend that you assign a group to open if you click on of your widgets:
Here's my YouTube one for example:

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Hey!

Yeah, of course, go ahead, that's what a community is for!
Although, I do have to warn you that I have just noticed an issue with the "Skip Intro" button: when I use it to skip the intro, it pauses the video as well, and for the love of me, I can't figure out why haha so, if you find a solution for that, let me know !

And for the group for the player, I've thought about it, but I multitask a lot and I like having all the controls at my disposition all the time and not have to switch so much, which is why I made it so that if you pressed any of the widgets I've got (youtube, spotify, netflix) you can do all the actions without being redirected to the page, even if it is not in the foreground, AND that I make them appear and disappear only when useful!

Enjoy ! :slight_smile:

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wait wait, does it play/pause YouTube without switching to it's window?

Currently in my preset, iTunes and Spotify have this functionality. It's quite useful to specifically tell, say iTunes to stop. Does your one do this for YouTube? I've yet to try this out for an extended time. It'll be great if it does!

It should have been but thanks for making me realize that it didn't, now it does! haha

I'm gonna upload the new presets now, and let you check it out.

I have set it up this way because sometimes I just don't want to be switched to the tab, I hate being redirected when I do something haha.

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Hey!

I have uploaded a new version of the presets with reworked title recognition for YouTube and a temporary fix for Netflix Skip Intro widget if you want to check it out :slightly_smiling_face:

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Just merged. Works great!

I'd like to nudge this to you, i'm trying to work it out but i'm having trouble with a certain part:
You might be interested!

Does the ESC button really align fully to the left right above the top left ~ button, or is it just the way you made your visualisation? I noticed it on the top image.

the display doesn't go all the way to the left, so it's a bit fake :slight_smile: It still looks very nice though!

I see, right ^^ Thanks

New to BTT and am loving Touch Bar Done Right so far. I've disabled everything else and am only using your mod right now. I still can't get any of the gestures you've added to work. They look simple enough and they're just using the default gesture API, but none of my two/three/four finger swipes do anything besides reveal a white bar passing through the entire touch bar.

Is there something else I need to configure to get swipe gestures to work?

Hi,

I’m glad you’re enjoying the preset so far!

For the gestures, I have also noticed that when trying to download it on another Mac, and I think it’s a big related to BTT itself but to fix it, you can just go into the « gestures » folder, and click on « add widget/gesture » just mimick the ones that are there (I.e. 2 finger right —> volume up and so on).
I would also advice to double click on the widget once created and change the editable field from 1 to 0.5 for the volume gestures as I think 1 is to slow.

Hope that helps, let me know if you need more precise information

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That fixed it! I just removed all the existing swipe gestures and re-added them. Works like a charm now, thanks!

Thank you iAmWaldo so much for providing this preset!
A few questions -

  1. is it possible to have ESC behave the same as the 'X' to close a menu? I've remapped my caps lock to send the ESC signal, and I use it to back out of everything else, so it'd be nice if it was recognized as a way to back out of the preset menus as well.

  2. The 2/3/4 finger gestures don't seem to actually work. The UI changes to a slider (yay!) but volume/brightness/keyboard lights don't actually change. Did I miss something during installation? (whoops - saw the commenter right above this with the same problem, so I'll dig into that myself - yep. it fixed it.. :smile: )

  3. is it possible to change the applications that show up in the secondary menu (the one triggered when you tap the downward arrow) ? or perhaps for me, can I drop that functionality altogether ? I use Alfred to launch apps. (Answer is yes.. it is very easy to hide the applications button by editing the preset in BTT.)

  4. Have you tried installing iStats with rbenv ? I seem to be having issues with the combination, but asking for help with this is probably outside the scope?

edit: Funny enough - your preset configuration was pretty close to my personal preference. It was close enough to get me to start digging into BTT myself to customize for my needs. So not only thanks for providing your work for us to use, thanks for inspiring me to learn something new :wink:

@iAmWaldo hi! Showing current netflix episode doesn't work for me. Do you have some ideas why is it?

Hey there! You need to allow Safari to run JavaScript coming from Apple Events. To do so, open the preferences in Safari and go to the Advanced tab. At the bottom check "Show Develop menu in menu bar". Then, in the new menu item "Develop", check the "Allow JavaScript from Apple Events" option.

This is awesome! I have a few questions:

  1. Is there any way to have the scripts run for Google Chrome instead of Safari? I tried switching the application name from "Safari" to "Google Chrome" but it didn't work.
  2. Is there a script for Spotify similar to those of Netflix and Youtube? I want the "Now Playing" widget for Spotify to disappear when it's not being played (when Netflix or Youtube are playing)

Thank you!

The "Youtube running: script" is since the latest version of BTT always visible if it has been visual once in a session. Any tips?

Hello, first thanks your preset is just amazing and easy to use, I could already figure out some parts to adjust, but can you explain for dummies exactly how I can get iStat run correctly on the tour bar?

hi
The skip button for Netflix takes 5-10 seconds to work. How do I make it faster? Also, the next episode button isnt working...
thanks

Wow thank you for using my design of MAGIC TOUCH! The Triangle on the left side is actually my logo of my company!
Look at www.thisisstark.com!

Cheers