Get MM pair with script?

cj

Hi! I'm trying to get the current MM pair so I can display related words in SpaceCenter.

I found something close to what I'm looking for in this post (thanks @tal !) :

and I was able to get the current selection from the pair list using:

documentController.pairList.getSelection()

This will work most of the time, except if I edit the pair manually and the pair is not in the list. Is there a method to getCurrentPair() or something? I wasn't able to find it. Thanks so much!

Here's what I've got so far:

def getMetricsMachineController():
    # Iterate through ALL OBJECTS IN PYTHON!
    import gc
    for obj in gc.get_objects():
        if hasattr(obj, "__class__"):
            # Does this one have a familiar name? Cool. Assume that we have what we are looking for.
            if obj.__class__.__name__ == "MetricsMachineController":
                return obj

# Get the current font.
font = CurrentFont()

# Get the MM main controller.
metricsMachineController = getMetricsMachineController()

# Get the document controller for the current font.
documentController = metricsMachineController._openControllers[font.naked()] # private attribute!

selection = documentController.pairList.getSelection()
print (selection[0])

(Thanks @jackson for inspiring me to actually dig into this tonight)

cj

@tal This works, thank you so much! I just tried using the scripting API and the new metricsMachine.GetCurrentPair() works perfectly, thank you! I'm very excited about the scripting API, such a great addition to MetricsMachine.

tal

Try this:

documentController.editView.get()

That may (or may not work). The scripting API that will be in version 1.1 will handle all of this for you. I'm getting close to releasing that.

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