Access clipboard content in BaseEventTool on paste

bahman

Hi,

I want to make sure when I paste some anchors while my tool is active, their names don't already exist in the glyph. Is it possible to access clipboard content in BaseEventTool on the paste method?

Thanks,
Bahman

frederik

this is pretty cool:

import AppKit
import defcon
from fontTools.ufoLib.glifLib import writeGlyphToString, readGlyphFromString

# get the paste board
pasteboard = AppKit.NSPasteboard.generalPasteboard()
# get the data
possibleGlifXML = pasteboard.stringForType_(AppKit.NSPasteboardTypeString)
# maybe its glif xml, could also just be normal text
print(possibleGlifXML)
# get a dummy glyph
dummyGlyph = RGlyph()
succes = False
try:
    # try to read the xml
    readGlyphFromString(possibleGlifXML, dummyGlyph, dummyGlyph.getPointPen())
    succes = True
except Exception as e:
    # if not valid fail
    print(f"Not valid glif xml!\nerror: {e}\ndata: \"{possibleGlifXML}\"")

if succes:
    # do something with the glyph
    dummyGlyph.moveBy((50, 50))
    # get the glif xml
    glifXML = writeGlyphToString(dummyGlyph.name, dummyGlyph, dummyGlyph.drawPoints)
    print(glifXML)
    # clear the past board
    pasteboard.clearContents()
    # write it back in to the paste board
    pasteboard.setString_forType_(glifXML, AppKit.NSPasteboardTypeString)

SOLVED Access clipboard content in BaseEventTool on paste