Make EditingTool select only certain objects

[bahman]

Hi,

I'm creating a tool for mark positioning and I want to only select anchors while the tool is active. Sometimes points and anchors overlap in position. I can make it based on BaseEventTool but then I have to create more methods to select and move the anchors which already exist in EditingTool. It would be cool if EditingTool only accepted anchors for selection so I don't accidentally select other objects. This way I don't have to reinvent methods that already exist.

Thanks

[bahman]

Thank you very much Frederik, this is very useful!

[frederik]

In the next beta and release an subclass of an EditingTool could overwrite:

from mojo.events import EditingTool


class MyTool(EditingTool):

    def canSelectAnchors(self):
        return True

    def canSelectImage(self):
        return False

    def canSelectComponents(self):
        return False

    def canSelectGuidelines(self):
        return False

    def canSelectPoints(self):
        return False
    
    def canSelectSidebearing(self):
        return False

[frederik]

This could idd be handy to have flags in a the EditingTool to allow to select/edit specific objects, like on curves, off curves, anchors, guidelines, image, components...

[bahman]

At the end, I made all the methods from scratch. After publishing I will post the link here.