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**smidwap** · December 4, 2016, 3:42pm

I frequently flip between full-screen and distraction free mode, so touch bar buttons to quickly change view mode would be welcome!

**FichteFoll** · December 5, 2016, 10:25am

It is a hardware specific feature (and also os-specific) so I doubt it would fit in a cross-platform API like ST’s. You are free to use the ctypes python package to access these OS APIs however.

Personally, I would create a package in a way that allows specifying arbitrary commands and arguments to be run on touch, and optionally a way to modify displayed text (or image?) for each button. Anything more custom should be directly implemented.

**TobyMellor** · December 15, 2016, 4:56am

Would love to see this.

**Jackeroo** · December 15, 2016, 2:28pm

Why would Jon implement this for a small group of users? He won’t implement printing in ST which has been requested by a larger group of users, so you guys are beating a dead horse.

**kolinko** · April 25, 2017, 3:47pm

We’re all developers - just a basic API would be enough, so we could program our own plugins for this.

Someone mentioned ctypes: any idea how difficult would it be to build a plugin using that?

**Paapaa** · May 26, 2017, 11:50am

As of Dev buil 3132, there is now a “Basic TouchBar support on macOS Sierra”.

jps:

With regards to Touch Bar support on macOS, all you get out of the box is buttons for next/prev result (i.e., F4/Shift+F4 equivalents). You can enable the show_navigation_bar preference to turn on a list of recently visited files there, too. It’s off by default because it’s very much just an experiment at this stage: it needs some testing to see if it’s even useful.

**rppn** · May 29, 2017, 11:28am

@Paapaa The updated forum now lets you accept answers and/or mark a topic (=issue?) as resolved.

**Paapaa** · May 29, 2017, 7:29pm

@rppn: I have no idea how to do it. Is it possible for old threads? There is not checkbox to accept an answer. (Or I’m just blind…)

**rppn** · May 30, 2017, 10:30am

Comments can be selected as an answer from the left most icon which kinda looks like this

**wbond** · May 30, 2017, 10:36am

You can only accept an answer in the Technical Support category.

**s_mcleod** · October 25, 2017, 10:15am

This would be so fantastic, I’d love the option to assign macros or sublime functions to the touch bar.

**Jackeroo** · October 25, 2017, 9:55pm

This was added in Build 3143.

**s_mcleod** · October 25, 2017, 10:17pm

Oh! Fantastic - I’m surprised my searching didn’t find the docs for this - do you happen to have a link to them handy?

**Jackeroo** · October 25, 2017, 10:27pm

See here.

**s_mcleod** · October 25, 2017, 11:50pm

Thanks but theres no information or links to documentation there, it only states “Mac: Added Touch Bar support” and that’s it from what I can see?

**Jackeroo** · October 26, 2017, 12:50am

Sorry, I don’t have a Mac, so I can’t help you. I would suggest that you consult your Mac documentation or the Apple support web site.

**s_mcleod** · October 26, 2017, 1:51am

It’s not macOS that I need documentation for though, it’s Sublime Text, it’s all good and well to say it ‘supports the touch bar’, but - what does it support? How do you configure Sublime to do things with it? It’s application specific.

**Jackeroo** · October 31, 2017, 12:11am

This article should help you. Pay attention to the section “From within Apps”.

**s_mcleod** · November 21, 2017, 7:42am

Thanks @jackeroo and sorry for the late response.

Perhaps I’m doing something wrong, but for some reason in SublimeText there doesn’t seem to be View -> Customise Touch Bar:

**s_mcleod** · November 21, 2017, 7:43am

I do however see this option in many other apps:

Support for Touch Bar (MacBook Pro 2016)