Thanks a ton for the resource, Frederik! Looks like my tool window is now going to be a landscape image;)

That is True! for now the inspector is made for inspecting single glyphs. An extension can add a inspector pan with this behaviour!

hello @bahman, I gave it a try – this seems to work: from vanilla import Window, List from AppKit import NSDragOperationCopy from lib.settings import doodleSelectedGlyphIndexesPboardType class TestWindow: def __init__(self): self.w = Window((400, 200), 'test') self.w.list = List((10, 10, -10, -10), [], selfApplicationDropSettings=dict(type=doodleSelectedGlyphIndexesPboardType, allowDropOnRow=True, allowDropBetweenRows=True, operation=NSDragOperationCopy, callback=self.selfApplicationDropCallback)) self.w.open() def selfApplicationDropCallback(self, sender, dropInfo): isProposal = dropInfo["isProposal"] if not isProposal: glyphs = dropInfo["data"] source = dropInfo["source"] glyphNames = [source[glyphIndex].name for glyphIndex in glyphs] self.w.list.set(glyphNames) return True TestWindow() but using stuff from the lib is not recommended… maybe @frederik knows a better solution. cheers!

Well that doesn't surprise me since I have no idea what I'm doing. I'll read up on notifications. It would be helpful to know why this is bad though.

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

@connor happy to help. thank you & everyone else for asking questions, I’m learning a lot too!

@gferreira said in how to make vanilla.Window not disappear: self.w.getNSWindow().setHidesOnDeactivate_(False) Thanks Gustavo!!! That is exacly what I needed

Thank you so much, Gustavo!

this brings a very old issue back... https://github.com/robotools/vanilla/blob/master/Lib/vanilla/vanillaWindows.py#L465-L466 follow up here

@RafaŁ-Buchner that’s a vanilla Popover window. here’s an example: from vanilla import Window, List, Popover, TextBox class PopoverExample: def __init__(self): self.w = Window((120, 120)) self.w.list = List((0, 0, -0, -0), ['eggs', 'bacon', 'ham', 'beans'], selectionCallback=self.showPopoverCallback) self.w.open() def showPopoverCallback(self, sender): selection = sender.getSelection() if not selection: return index = sender.getSelection()[0] relativeRect = sender.getNSTableView().rectOfRow_(index) pop = Popover((140, 180)) pop.text = TextBox((10, 10, -10, -10), 'spam '*20) pop.open(parentView=sender, preferredEdge='right', relativeRect=relativeRect) PopoverExample() cheers!

To all developers working with UFO-tools, here’s an important announcement: The RoboFab Developers organisation on GitHub has been retired, and a new organisation has been created in its place: RoboTools! From now on, RoboTools is the new home of FontParts, FontPens, and several other libraries originating from Type Supply. The main goal behind this change is to have more people involved in maintaining these libraries and providing support to users. Here’s the full list of libraries which are now under the RoboTools umbrella: compositor defcon defconAppKit extractor fontMath fontParts fontPens roboFab ufo2fdk vanilla Big thanks to Just van Rossum and Ben Kiel for setting everything up. Happy coding! here’s the original announcement by Just van Rossum on Twitter

Oh, that's a good one. Thanks @frederik!

@gferreira Thanks for helping!

Thanks so much Frederik! That's exactly what I was missing!

Thanks, I'll try!

Oh! This is quite embarrassing. Thanks!

sorry, its indeed CheckBox

can you use the defconAppKit progressWindow? see http://code.typesupply.com/browser/packages/defconAppKit/trunk/Lib/defconAppKit/windows/progressWindow.py Cocoa is build up rather smart so it checks when a view is been updated frequently before redrawing it on screen. Although you can force a redraw: self.w.text.getNSTextField().display() after setting a string into the TextBox

He I've written a proper vanilla patch which is already in the vanilla repo. This will be in the next update of RoboFont. It adds addToolBarItem and removeToolbarItem to a vanilla window object, able to manage toolbar items properly. see https://github.com/typesupply/vanilla/blob/master/Lib/vanilla/vanillaWindows.py#L631

Yes, this is exactly what I need right now! Thanks so much Frederik! Franz