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Is the Macbook Pro touch bar hardware accelerated?

Is the new Macbook Pro touch bar hardware accelerated? Will it support things like OpenGL contexts and the like?

Solution

  • Yes.

    You can imagine Touch Bar as another display on your MacBook Pro.

    The Touch Bar is a Retina display, like the screen of a MacBook Pro. To perform custom drawing or animation within the Touch Bar, follow the same best practices that you would on the screen.

    In Interface Builder just add Touch Bar View component from Object Library to the Touch Bar.

    Touch Bar View - Instance of NSView to be used in Touch Bar.

    Now you can just simply add you OpenGL View or Scene Kit View to your Touch bar View.