Find out what part of a glyph is selected

[jesentanadi]

Hi, can someone suggest a better way of finding out what part of a glyph is selected, besides iterating through its parts?

Right now, to find selected segments, I'm doing something like:

selectedSegments = []

for contour in glyph.contours:
   for segment in contour:
      if segment.selected:
         selectedSegments.append(segment)

I've seen that the BaseEventTool object can return a selection object, but I haven't figured out a way to test if the object is a segment or not

On a similar note, I'm not sure if some of the attributes/methods on this page just need to be updated, but RGlyph.selectedPoints gives me an AttributeError: 'RGlyph' object has no attribute 'selectedPoints'.

Thanks!

[jesentanadi]

@frederik sorry, didn't realize it's new to FontParts too. I'll give 3.2b a try.

[frederik]

fontParts was fully implemented when 3.1 was released, only this api was added afterwards. This is present in the beta and in the upcoming release.

[jesentanadi]

@gferreira ah, good to know that the selection API isn't fully implemented in 3.1. And yes—thanks for reminding me of comprehensions!

[gferreira]

maybe worth adding: list comprehensions are handy for creating this kind of lists:

g = CurrentGlyph()

selectedSegments = [s for c in g for s in c if s.selected]
selectedPoints   = [p for c in g for p in c.points if p.selected]

print(selectedSegments)
print(selectedPoints)

[gferreira]

@jesentanadi the FontParts object selection API was introduced in RF 3.2 (currently in beta). I think you are running RF 3.1?

[jesentanadi]

@frederik hi, thanks for confirming.

I'm still getting an AttributeError: 'RGlyph' object has no attribute 'selectedPoints'​ when I use glyph.selectedPoints:

[frederik]

to find the selection points:

glyph = CurrentGlyph()

print(glyph.selectedPoints)
# on older RF
# print(glyph.selection) # this is deprecated in favour of selectionPoints

If you need a segment selection you will need to loop through all the contours and all the segments.

glyph = CurrentGlyph()

for contour in glyph:
    for segment in contour:
        print(segment.selected)

hope this helps