Since my machine is now over 4 years old, I ordered a new MacBookPro yesterday with the new TouchBar built in. Should get here in a few weeks. However, I decided to try and experiment with programming the TouchBar to do something useful in xLights. My very first pass, I can have icons for any of the effects so if you click on a cell and hit the "button", the effect is placed. That is very simple. It's also completely customizable so YOU can select which effects are on the TouchBar. Seems to hold about 17. Kind of neat.
However, I'm doubting that is the most useful way to use the TouchBar. Thus, I'd like you folks that are actually doing sequencing to help figure out what this could do.
My thoughts:
1) A "color" button that would expand out to the 8 colors from the palette and then allow setting each of them based on the standard TouchBar color picker.
2) Effect Preset icons - not sure how to set icons for these.
3) Instead of individual effect icons, I could use a scroll view thing that would have all of them in it. Slide left/right to find the right effect.
What other "often used" things might be a good idea to place there.
Obviously, this is for Mac folks only (and really just those folks planning on getting a new MacBookPro), but input from everyone is fine.
