Getting the glyph and its font

Hi,
In a class derived from BaseEventTool, I use

g = self.getGlyph()
f = g.getParent()

in order to obtain the font containing the glyph g.
However, when I have two opened fonts F1 and F2 and two GlyphWindows opened (one from each font : g1 from F1 and g2 from F2), and when I go from one glyph window to the other, the following code :

print g.name, g.getParent.fileName

gives me : g1 F2 or g2 F1
and after some more clicking, I finally get correct values (g1 F1 or g2 F2)

There seem to be only partially updated information when switching windows.
Regards,
Samuel

Thank you for fixing this.!
I'll use your eventObserver example to get a better understanding of when each event is triggered.
Regards,
Samuel

frederik

Hi

the mixed parents will be fixed in the next update, thanks for reporting

one thing: a <code>tool.getGlyph()</code> method will always return a glyph from a glyph view, if you select a font window, it will send you a <code>currentGlyphChanged</code> notification, but the glyph will not actually change when using the <code>tool.getGlyph()</code>. To get the global current glyph use <code>CurrentGlyph()</code>

the other weirdness: see https://github.com/typemytype/RoboFontExamples/blob/master/observers/eventObserver.py

a tool can become active separately from a <code>currentGlyphChanged</code> or <code>viewDidChangeGlyph</code>

[ With Version 1.6 (built 1410152315) ]
Using your example TestTool :

Open two fonts F1 and F2
Open glyph g1 from font F1
(now there are three windows opened, plus the output window)
Bring the window for the font F2 to the front
click on the glyphs grid, on a glyph g2 (with a name different from g1)
Now you should observe "g1 <F2>" in the output window

[Another weirdness: the callbacks "viewDidChangeGlyph" and "currentGlyphChanged" are called before "becomeActive"]
Best regards,
Samuel

frederik

hi

could you make an small example?

I cannot reproduce this issue, with a quick test...

thanks

<pre>
from mojo.events import BaseEventTool, installTool

class TestTool(BaseEventTool):

def currentGlyphChanged(self):
    g = self.getGlyph()
    f = g.getParent()
    print g.name, f

installTool(TestTool())
</pre>