<![CDATA[Preferences]]>Been figuring out how to save and load preferences for some tools and thought I'd share my testing script.

https://gist.github.com/okay-type/ce122159565cbeab320b069010fb011b

It's working, but it might not be the best way to manage a larger number of values. And I couldn't figure out what exactly 'registerExtensionDefaults' did. (edit: I think I figured out 'registerExtensionDefaults')

]]>https://forum.robofont.com/topic/698/preferencesRSS for NodeWed, 13 May 2026 10:22:03 GMTWed, 18 Sep 2019 17:34:31 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Preferences on Wed, 18 Sep 2019 21:13:33 GMT]]>Been figuring out how to save and load preferences for some tools and thought I'd share my testing script.

https://gist.github.com/okay-type/ce122159565cbeab320b069010fb011b

It's working, but it might not be the best way to manage a larger number of values. And I couldn't figure out what exactly 'registerExtensionDefaults' did. (edit: I think I figured out 'registerExtensionDefaults')

]]>https://forum.robofont.com/post/2634https://forum.robofont.com/post/2634Wed, 18 Sep 2019 21:13:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Preferences on Wed, 18 Sep 2019 21:12:27 GMT]]>hello @okaytype,

nice example, thanks for sharing!

the individual attribute names are a good use case for @property:

@property
def savedEditTextKey(self):
    return self.prefKey + '.savedEditText'

then later on you can just getExtensionDefault(self.savedEditTextKey)

]]>https://forum.robofont.com/post/2635https://forum.robofont.com/post/2635Wed, 18 Sep 2019 21:12:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Preferences on Wed, 18 Sep 2019 23:28:03 GMT]]>Oh, that's going to be useful. Updated my gist so I don't forget how it works. Thanks.

]]>https://forum.robofont.com/post/2637https://forum.robofont.com/post/2637Wed, 18 Sep 2019 23:28:03 GMT