@frederik Hate to bring up Ill*strator, but I actually think it handles this pretty well (no pun intended).

@frederik Thanks!

Its indeed similar to a pen. This allows easy subclassing of internal tools by simply adding behaviour to a tool. This tool is subclassing _mouseDragged as it needs the same behaviour but with the shift constrain disabled, as this tool will perform his own shift behaviour.

Cool Ryan! I will have a look after Christmas. Maybe I will come up with some ideas how to make it work 100% nicely :D

hi @erik, there’s CheckParallelTool, but it checks only if the lines connecting on-curve and off-curve points in curve segments are parallel. (checking parallel segments is mentioned in the to-do list)

Why do you need those tool objects? Im trying to understand your question ;)

@frederik Ah, yes. I always forget about the help() function. Thanks!

Great, thanks

If a tool is activated from the scripting window and not as an extension the easiest thing todo is to restart :)

For now, I haven't found a way to directly insert my toolbarItem into the toolbar as I couldn't get insertItemWithItemIdentifier:()atIndex:() to work in the context of my script/extension, but probably I'm just being daft here. So currently I read all the items in the glyph window toolbar, add my item, and use vanilla's addToolbar method to replace the toolbar. That's looking good so far, all the previously present items are there, glyph tools work, and my item shows up (not as a button yet, that's lined up next). RemoveOverlap in the replaced toolbar crashes right now when clicked (I guess I'm somehow breaking the delegate or something), but I hope to get that sorted, too.

can you elaborate what you want to achieve with the special rotation behavior? you can build a custom tool and draw the selected points yourself: s = 5 ## / scale # in a tool you can get the scale value for x, y in CurrentGlyph().selection: oval(x-s, y-s, s*2, s*2)