Font view not updating after adding to skipExportGlyphs

benedikt

Hello,

I update the lib entry of a font to add glyphs to “skipExportGlyphs” with a script. But after I add them, they don’t get the red cross in the bottom right corner like when I tick them individually to exclude during export. They do however end up in the list in the font info window.

When I save the font, the crosses appear. How can I tell the font window that something has changed in the background?

The code looks pretty much like this:

font = CurrentFont()

font_lib = font.lib.asDict()
{font_lib.setdefault('public.skipExportGlyphs', []).append(glyph_name) for glyph_name in font.selectedGlyphNames}       
        
font.lib.update(font_lib)
font.update()

Thanks in advance!

benedikt

Hey @gferreira,

Thank you so much for the fast reply, your code works just as expected!

gferreira

hello @benedikt,

not sure I understand your code – why get the whole lib as a dict, why setdefault?

I would write it like this:

font = CurrentFont()

# get the current list of skip export glyph names
skipExportGlyphNames = font.lib.get('public.skipExportGlyphs', default=[])

# add selected glyphs to the list
skipExportGlyphNames += font.selectedGlyphNames

# remove duplicates
skipExportGlyphNames = list(set(skipExportGlyphNames))

# store list back into the lib
font.lib['public.skipExportGlyphs'] = skipExportGlyphNames

this works fine in my tests, the red marks are updated automatically – please give it a try.

cheers!

ps: obj.update() is deprecated (old RF1/RoboFab syntax), use obj.changed() instead (new RF3/FontParts syntax). see RoboFab vs. FontParts APIs

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