I'm about to face the following case: I'm starting to work with people that still use RF 1.8. From many apparent reasons, since I'm going to be their coder, I'm trying to talk them into using Robofont 3.2 or above. Unfortunately, they said that they faced some problems with performance while testing out RF 3. To solve the problem, I asked them to do, what's following: update the RF3 to the last stable version I made sure that in the Preference Editor "warningWithFullStack" and "warningsLevel" are set to 1 and always. This way I was able to determine which scripts and plugins ran in the background are explicitly buggy delete or update extensions, and scripts don't work in RF3 if this didn't change the performance much, I asked them to make a backup copy of folders mentioned in 2 and to empty active folders. Then to copy, one-by-one, the scripts from the backup folder to the active directories. Whenever the script or plugin has been moved to the folder, I asked them to restart RF3 to check, if the performance has changed. I did it to determine which extension causing performance issues. They say that this method helped a bit. Also, all of the co-workers updated their systems recently to Mojave. At least one of them says that this helped (I don't know if it could be even the reason). In two weeks from now, I'm going to meet them and check their machines myself. Could any of you give me an advice, if there is any methodology/tools to check if the performance of RF3 is optimal? What should I look at/for? I'm also going to determine what exactly they understand as a 'poor performance'. So far, I was able to figure out that the issue is with using Glyph Window when drawing/moving points: it is slow and laggy. The same with SpaceWindow. One of the co-workers, when I asked her to open the Preference Editor, said that even scrolling to the bottom of the editor was causing jamming. I never faced issues like that, so I'm curious what would be the best way of solving problems like that. Thanks for the help in advance

hello @ThunderNixon, have you tried the new diff view in RF 3.3b? just click on a glyph name to see the differences between the current version and the external changes: clicking on Reject will keep the current data (red) clicking on Update will switch to the external data (green)

BlackBlaze time machine on network HD Git is used as a version control system, not really a backup

upgraded scalefast to 1.0.3 in 3.3b. Now receiving: Traceback (most recent call last): ​ File "/Applications/RoboFont.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.6/fontParts/base/component.py", line 278, in _drawPoints File "/Applications/RoboFont.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.6/fontTools/pens/pointPen.py", line 205, in addComponent File "/Applications/RoboFont.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.6/fontTools/pens/basePen.py", line 177, in addComponent TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not subscriptable During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "scaleFast.py", line 1532, in <module> File "scaleFast.py", line 387, in __init__ File "scaleFast.py", line 920, in _selectedFontChanged File "/Users/Dave/Library/Application Support/RoboFont/plugins/ScaleFast.roboFontExt/lib/mutatorScale/lib/mutatorScale/utilities/fontUtils.py", line 64, in getRefStems File "/Users/Dave/Library/Application Support/RoboFont/plugins/ScaleFast.roboFontExt/lib/mutatorScale/lib/mutatorScale/utilities/fontUtils.py", line 252, in getGlyphBox File "/Applications/RoboFont.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.6/fontParts/base/glyph.py", line 620, in draw File "/Applications/RoboFont.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.6/fontParts/base/component.py", line 252, in draw File "/Applications/RoboFont.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.6/fontParts/base/component.py", line 260, in _draw File "/Applications/RoboFont.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.6/fontParts/base/component.py", line 266, in drawPoints File "/Applications/RoboFont.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.6/fontParts/base/component.py", line 280, in _drawPoints File "/Applications/RoboFont.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.6/fontTools/pens/pointPen.py", line 205, in addComponent File "/Applications/RoboFont.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.6/fontTools/pens/basePen.py", line 177, in addComponent TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not subscriptable

@gferreira Still happens in 3.3b for me mate.

@RafaŁ-Buchner that’s it!! thank you very much.

Awesome, thanks guys!

@gferreira Thanks a lot, it worked!

hello @daniel, the latest beta release includes an improved hasOverlap() function which returns a bool instead of a list of overlap positions. please give a try… thanks!

Cool! Thanks a million!

Thank you very much ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Amazing! Thanks @gferreira

This works perfectly. Thanks for the update. If anyone else wants to play, here's a simpler canvas test script : from AppKit import NSApp from vanilla import * from mojo.canvas import CanvasGroup from mojo.drawingTools import rect, fill debug = True class CanvasTest(object): def __init__(self): windowname = 'Canvas Test' if debug == True: for window in [w for w in NSApp().orderedWindows() if w.isVisible()]: if window.title() == windowname: window.close() self.w = Window((500, 500), windowname, fullSizeContentView=False) self.w.g = CanvasGroup((100, 100, -100, -100), delegate=CanvasStuff()) self.w.open() class CanvasStuff(object): def draw(self): fill(.5, .2, 1,1) rect(0, 0, 600, 600) def mouseDown(self, event): print('mouseDown') def mouseUp(self, event): print('mouseUp') def mouseDragged(self, event): print('mouseDragged') def mouseEntered(self, event): print('mouseEntered') def mouseExited(self, event): print('mouseExited') CanvasTest()

Four months after the release of RoboFont 3.2, we’re happy to announce that the first public beta of RoboFont 3.3 is out. Download it now from the Downloads page. This release is packed with new features and bug fixes. Here are some of the highlights: New banner notifications Messages are now shown using macOS notifications instead of alert windows. A small change which saves clicks and improves the user experience. Notifications are unobtrusive: they appear at the top right of the screen and disappear automatically after a few seconds. You can also use them in your tools and scripts: from mojo.UI import PostBannerNotification PostBannerNotification("hello world", "Welcome to RoboFont!") Support for anchor and guideline colors This release adds support for displaying individual guideline and anchor colors in the Glyph Editor. The Inspector panel has a new Guidelines section, where color and other guideline attributes can be edited. Anchor colors can be edited in the Inspector too. This feature was added in response to a question in the Forums. New index color preferences Speaking of colors: the index labels for different types of objects (points, segments, contours, components) can now have different colors. The new color settings are available in Preferences > Glyph View > Appearance. New diff view for external glyph changes The Updates Found window has been improved with a new diff view for visualising external changes to glyphs: The diff popup can be opened by clicking on a glyph name in the list of changed glyphs. Green lines show the external glif XML data, red lines show the current glyph data which will be modified. This feature was added in response to a request in the Forums. Extension expiration date and markdown docs Extension metadata files can now include an expiration date attribute, allowing developers to create trial versions of their extensions. The ExtensionBundle object now also supports documentation sources in Markdown format. If available, Markdown files are converted to HTML when the extension is built. A default stylesheet is applied, but you can also provide your own. See the Boilerplate Extension and Building Extensions for updated documentation and examples. Other changes in this version include: add missing glyphs as template glyphs when sorting by character set improvements to group kerning in the Kern Center support for drag & drop in canvas views new flat UI style for accordion views anchors snapping to contour points updated embedded libraries See the version history for the complete list of changes. A big thanks to all beta testers and users providing feedback on the Forum!

@gferreira said in Preserve empty glyphs when applying defcon sort order through script: newGlyphOrder = f.naked().unicodeData.sortGlyphNames(f.templateGlyphOrder, sortDescriptors=[dict(type="cannedDesign", ascending=True, allowPseudoUnicode=True)]) f.templateGlyphOrder = newGlyphOrder Oh, interesting! Sure enough, changing glyphOrder to templateGlyphOrder fixed my script. It now works just as hoped. :) Thanks so much for point out that difference to me!

Works great! Thanks a lot :)

Interesting solution. Sounds good to me! Thanks for figuring out a way to solve this. :)

For instance, if you happen to have an iPad with Procreate and you like drawing stuff with the ApplesPen, this might be interesting: Two scripts. 1 First, using the export_drawings script you export the current glyph as an image (a reasonable sized png). The script makes a nice path to your icloud folder, like ~/RoboFont/<ufoName>/glyphName.png. 2 Then using your favorite pixel editor on your favorite tablet (i.e. Procreate on iPad), you can open the file. Edit. Markup. Make radical changes that you would never dare to do if it were only vectors. Then you save the image in the same place, same name. (look up how Procreate does that if you have to, it's not difficult) 3 Then back to RoboFont, with the same glyph open, run the import_drawings script. This pulls the image from iCloud and copies it to the background. https://gist.github.com/LettError/d0d2688abe959595a88b3fdb85c18db3 Before I make it more complex then it really needs to be, let me know what you think and how you use it. -- E

Thanks @gferreira and @juergensupertype! Fixed, new version committed. Update via Mechanic2.

super!!!!!!