or wrap changing fill and stroke inside spaceCenterDrawBackgroundLineView spaceCenterDrawLineView notifications. A multiline view has a _fill and _stroke attribute you can temporarily overwrite. good luck

the traceback can indeed be printed! up to RF3.5!

euhm use alt + drag metrics :) to apply the change to all layers... both in glyph view as in a space center HAHAHA, thanks!!! Of course, I had no idea about that. Damn, I love it, I already made a sophisticated observer system, which checks which space center is being used, activates Glyph.LeftMarginDidChange etc, etc… At least now I'm also able to use normal step-by-step spacing for all of the layers :D, not only dragging

Oh my, I really did overthink the issue — reorganizing my functions just a little and adding the self.updateFont(None) solved it!! Thanks for the help, Gustavo!

@gferreira thanks a lot! I will look into it :)

@frederik Thanks!!

@gferreira Makes sense, thanks very much!

ps. currentGlyphChanged notifications are also sent when the current glyph changes in the glyph window. so you’ll probably first want to check if the current window is the font window: from mojo.events import addObserver from mojo.UI import CurrentWindow class MyObserver: def __init__(self): addObserver(self, 'currentGlyphChangedCallback', "currentGlyphChanged") def currentGlyphChangedCallback(self, notification): if CurrentWindow().doodleWindowName == 'FontWindow': print(CurrentFont().selectedGlyphNames) MyObserver()

Keep a reference of the font in your class otherwise the observer will be gone after the script is finished. Thats why the examples have an open window, so its the font and observers stays alive! good luck

hello @RafaŁ-Buchner, yes, I think it’s a good idea to remove the observer in your code. here’s what the defcon documentation says: Don’t Forget removeObserver The only real gotcha in this is that you must remove the observer from the observed object when the observation is no longer needed. If you don’t do this and the observed object is changed, it will try to post a notification to the object you have discarded. That could lead to trouble. and here’s an example script in which the defcon Glyph.Changed observer is removed when the current glyph changes.

yes, to get the closing font use fontWillClose – which is called before closing the font. (fontDidClose does not return a font because the font has just been closed :)

Damn, I was looking for it whole day(forgot what is the name of this extension) Thanks!

@gferreira Thank you Gustavo. I had no idea those notifications are also for the glyph window focus. Great!

Yes, it's very handy. It would be handy also in the scripting window. :) Thanks!

Hi @gferreira. I already gave it a try and it is working great for me! I'm going to work on a script that will automatically create a list of similar shapes so that I could import them into the extension. Thank you so so much again!

added to the docs as an example. thanks!

Thanks, Frederik. I couldn't figure that out, but I did figure out I could subclass the vanilla elements. I think this approach will work better for what I'm doing. from vanilla import * from mojo.events import addObserver, removeObserver from AppKit import NSApp, NSColor, NSTextAlignmentCenter, NSTextAlignmentRight, NSTextAlignmentLeft debug = True class OverlayViewController(object): def __init__(self): windowname = 'debug window ui test' if debug == True: self.w = Window((500, 50), windowname) self.w.bind("close", self.windowClose) for window in [w for w in NSApp().orderedWindows() if w.isVisible()]: if window.title() == windowname: window.close() self.w.open() self.view = None addObserver(self, 'addToGlyphView', 'glyphWindowWillOpen') def windowClose(self, sender): print('removing observer') removeObserver(self, "glyphWindowWillOpen") def addToGlyphView(self, notification): self.window = notification["window"] x, y, w, h = xywh = (0, 0, -0, 22) this = self.testGV = Group(xywh) this.text1 = SubClassedEditText(xywh, '-', window=self.window, sizeStyle='mini', continuous=False) self.window.addGlyphEditorSubview(this) class SubClassedEditText(EditText): def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): self.window = kwargs['window'] del kwargs['window'] super(SubClassedEditText, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs) this = self.getNSTextField() this.setBezeled_(False) this.setBackgroundColor_(NSColor.redColor()) this.setAlignment_(NSTextAlignmentCenter) addObserver(self, "currentGlyphChanged", "currentGlyphChanged") def currentGlyphChanged(self, info): try: g = self.window.getGlyph() if g is None: return f = g.getParent() self.set(f.info.styleName + ' ' + g.name) except: pass def _breakCycles(self): super(SubClassedEditText, self)._breakCycles() removeObserver(self, "currentGlyphChanged") OverlayViewController()

Makes sense. Thanks so much for your help!

But then I have to handle all the glyph changes somehow, like this: from mojo.events import addObserver, removeObserver, postEvent class DummyController(object): def __init__(self): self.glyph = CurrentGlyph() addObserver(self, "currentGlyphChanged", "currentGlyphChanged") self.addSelectionObserver() def currentGlyphChanged(self, notification): self.removeSelectionObserver() self.glyph = notification["glyph"] self.addSelectionObserver() postEvent("selectionChanged") def glyphSelectionChanged(self, notification): postEvent("selectionChanged") def addSelectionObserver(self): if self.glyph is not None: self.glyph.addObserver(self, "glyphSelectionChanged", "Glyph.SelectionChanged") def removeSelectionObserver(self): if self.glyph is not None: self.glyph.removeObserver(self, "Glyph.SelectionChanged") class DummyObserver(): def __init__(self): addObserver(self, "selectionChanged", "selectionChanged") def selectionChanged(self, notification): self.glyph = notification["glyph"] if self.glyph is not None: print(self.glyph.selectedPoints, self.glyph.selectedComponents) DummyController() DummyObserver() I was thinking there might be something like this already built in.

@frederik ah, makes sense. thanks again!