Data folder

[bahman]

Hi,

I'm generating mark feature in the mark positioning tool I wrote and I was wondering:
1- Should I save it inside the data folder specified here in the spec or make a directory named mark next to the UFO dir.
2- If I make the data folder, is it safe to change it using my own code or there is an internal safe method to do that?

Thanks

[frederik]

you can store your tool specific data in the data folder!

defcon has an api for reading and writing files, not for folders inside the data folder.

font = CurrentFont()
defconFont = font.naked()
print(defconFont)


print(defconFont.data.fileNames)


# data must be bytes
defconFont.data["com.bahman.superKernTool.as.bytes"] = b"myData"

myData = dict()
myData["superkern"] = "foo"
defconFont.data["com.bahman.superKernTool.as.plist"] = plistlib.dumps(myData)


defconFont.save('test.ufo')

good luck