Touch Bar Utility

Beware This package only works with Atom >=v1.19

An Atom package that allows you to assign custom actions to Touch Bar components.

Usage

1. Go to File → Settings → Packages
2. Find touch-bar-utility and click on the card but not on the name of the package
3. Go to Settings and edit the Buttons entry with a JSON array of Touch Bar components
   • A component has the following format: {"type": "<typeOfElement>"[, ...]}

Touch Bar Components

TouchBarButton (type: "button")

Name of variable	Type of variable	Optional	Description
label	String	Yes	Button text.
backgroundColor	String	Yes	Button background color in hex format, i.e #ABCDEF.
pathOfIcon	String	Yes	Path to button icon.
iconPosition	String	No	Can be left, right or overlay.
click	Function	Yes	Function to call when the button is clicked.
clickDispatchAction	String	Yes	Event from another package that you want to execute when button is clicked. It will override the click property. It must be in the following format: "<package-name>:<event-name>" without quotation marks.
dispatchActionTarget	String	Yes	Can have a value of 'workspace' or 'editor'. It defaults to 'workspace'.

TouchBarColorPicker (type: "color-picker")

Name of variable	Type of variable	Optional	Description	Return values	Return values type	Return values description
availableColors	String[]	Yes	Array of hex color strings to appear as possible colors to select.
selectedColor	String	Yes	The selected hex color in the picker, i.e #ABCDEF.
change	Function	Yes	Function to call when a color is selected.	color	String	The color that the user selected from the picker

TouchBarGroup (type: "group")

Name of variable	Type of variable	Optional	Description
items	Array of elements	No	Items to display as a group.

TouchBarLabel (type: "label")

Name of variable	Type of variable	Optional	Description
label	String	Yes	Text to display.
textColor	String	Yes	Hex color of text, i.e #ABCDEF.

TouchBarPopover (type: "popover")

Name of variable	Type of variable	Optional	Description
label	String	Yes	Popover button text.
pathOfIcon	String	Yes	Popover button icon.
items	Array of elements	Yes	Items to display in the popover.
showCloseButton	Boolean	Yes	true to display a close button on the left of the popover, false to not show it. Default is true.

TouchBarSlider (type: "slider")

Name of variable	Type of variable	Optional	Description	Return values	Return values type	Return values description
label	String	Yes	Label text.
value	Integer	Yes	Selected value.
minValue	Integer	Yes	Minimum value.
maxValue	Integer	Yes	Maximum value.
change	Function	Yes	Function to call when the slider is changed.	newValue	Number	The value that the user selected on the Slider

TouchBarSpacer (type: "spacer")

Name of variable	Type of variable	Optional	Description	Options	Options description
size	String	Yes	Size of spacer, possible values are:	small	Small space between items.
			large	Large space between items.
			flexible	Take up all available space.

Images

Touch Bar with Sample Configuration