applicationWillTerminate doesn’t work as predicted?

RafaŁ Buchner

Hi there,

I was trying to implement auto-opening ufos on start that were active during the previous RF session.

Here is the code that I'm putting to the startup scripts batch:

import os
from mojo.UI import getDefault, setDefault
from mojo.roboFont import OpenFont, AllFonts
from mojo.events import addObserver, removeObserver
'''
    Startup script that opens recently closed Robofont session
'''
def openRecentSession():
    paths = getDefault('recentSessionPaths')
    if paths is None: return

    for path in paths:
        if os.path.exists(path):
            OpenFont(path, True)
            print('!!!! opened path', path)

def saveCurrentSession():
    paths = [f.path for f in AllFonts()]
    print(paths)
    if len(paths) == 0:
        paths = None
    setDefault('recentSessionPaths', paths)

class OpenRecentSessionManager(object):
    def __init__(self): 
        print('openRecentSession =', getDefault('openRecentSession'))
        if getDefault('openRecentSession') == 1:
            openRecentSession()
        addObserver(self, 'robofontClosing', 'applicationWillTerminate')
        
    def robofontClosing(self, info):
        print('robofotn closing, saving current session', AllFonts())
        saveCurrentSession()

OpenRecentSessionManager()

My issue: I assumed that applicationWillTerminate observer triggers callback whenever the RF app is being closed. It looks like it is not true. It is hard to tell when closing the RF app will trigger my saveCurrentSession callback.

Maybe I assumption was wrong, and applicationWillTerminate works completely differently? is there a better way to implement auto-opening the last RF session?

Thanks in advance for your help
and please, inform me if the question is not clear enough :)

RafaŁ Buchner

@frederik said in applicationWillTerminate doesn’t work as predicted?:

https://github.com/typemytype/projectRoboFontExtension

This is so cool! Thanks!!!

frederik

and maybe also take a look here: https://github.com/typemytype/projectRoboFontExtension

frederik

Mmm, I guess in this case all open fonts are already closed, so AllFonts() will be an empty list...

Dont overcomplicate it to much and try to use macOS callbacks... like:

import AppKit

controller = AppKit.NSDocumentController.sharedDocumentController()
print(controller.recentDocumentURLs())

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