RComponent.position not working

benedikt

Looking for a way to get the “absolute” coordinates of a component, I stumbled on RComponent.position in the documentation.

But when I run this I get a trackback in both current beta and last release:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<untitled>", line 4, in <module>
  File "/Applications/RoboFont.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.7/fontParts/base/base.py", line 90, in __get__
  File "/Applications/RoboFont.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.7/fontParts/base/base.py", line 746, in _get_base_position
  File "/Applications/RoboFont.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.7/fontParts/base/base.py", line 758, in _get_position
AttributeError: 'RComponent' object has no attribute 'x'

I’m not sure if this is something that is not implemented (yet/anymore) or if I am using it wrongly.

What would be the best way to figure out the position of a given component?

Thanks for your help.

frederik

component.position will be removed in future version, as it was a bug :)

benedikt

Ah, good to know. I haven’t seen that issue.

Thanks for the snippet, that helps a lot!

gferreira

hello @benedikt,

this is a known bug in FontParts, see this issue.

this seems to work:

glyph = CurrentGlyph()
component = glyph.components[1]
bounds = component.layer[component.baseGlyph].bounds
if bounds:
    x = bounds[0] + component.offset[0]
    y = bounds[1] + component.offset[1]
    print(x, y)

thanks!

SOLVED RComponent.position not working