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  • November 15, 2013 at 22:22 #5732

    qkeave
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    Simple question, how the heck do I add an anchor? (in python)

    November 15, 2013 at 23:16 #5733

    frederik
    Keymaster
    g = CurrentGlyph()

g.appendAnchor("name", (100, 100))

    see also http://www.robofab.org/objects/glyph.html

    good luck

    November 26, 2013 at 06:54 #5736

    qkeave
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    thank you!

    November 26, 2013 at 08:05 #5737

    qkeave
    Participant

    Thanks and sorry! I’m probably not as good at searching as I thought I was.
    – BUT –
    this of course leads to more questions.

    – How do I set guides to measure
    – How do I ACTUALLY remove guides (because I can’t get removeGuide() to work)

    I’ve attached the little tool I’m making below for context.

    ___________________________

    g = CurrentGlyph()
ancs = []
gd = ['Radial 0deg','Radial 20deg','Radial 40deg','Radial 60deg','Radial 80deg','Radial 100deg','Radial 120deg','Radial 150deg','Radial 160deg']

for a in g.anchors:
    b = a.name
    ancs.append(b)
    
if 'Radial Guide' not in ancs:
    g.appendAnchor("Radial Guide", (500, 500))

for a in g.guides:
    if a.name in gd:
        #THIS IS WHERE I WANT TO REMOVE THE GUIDE
        #removeGuide(a)
    
print g.guides

for a in g.anchors:
    if a.name == 'Radial Guide':
        x = a.x
        y = a.y
        g.addGuide((x, y), 90, name="Radial 0deg")
        g.addGuide((x, y), 110, name="Radial 20deg")
        g.addGuide((x, y), 130, name="Radial 40deg")
        g.addGuide((x, y), 150, name="Radial 60deg")
        g.addGuide((x, y), 170, name="Radial 80deg")
        g.addGuide((x, y), 190, name="Radial 100deg")
        g.addGuide((x, y), 210, name="Radial 120deg")
        g.addGuide((x, y), 230, name="Radial 150deg")
        g.addGuide((x, y), 250, name="Radial 160deg")
        #I JUST NEED TO SET THESE TO MEASURE

print ''
print 'Digested by Python.'
    November 26, 2013 at 15:25 #5738

    Thom
    Participant

    try this:

    g.removeGuide(a)
    November 26, 2013 at 18:40 #5740

    qkeave
    Participant

    thanks Thom that works,

    now I just need to figure how to turn on measurements with python

    November 30, 2013 at 15:12 #5752

    frederik
    Keymaster

    As measurements are a UI related attribute, it is not added to the robofab-like guide object.

    However you can change the display of measurements of a guide with:

    glyph = CurrentGlyph()

guide = glyph.addGuide((100, 100), 90, "my guide")
guide.naked().showMeasurements = True

    to remove all guides you can also use glyph.clearGuides()

    good luck!

    November 30, 2013 at 15:14 #5753

    frederik
    Keymaster

    and from a programming point of view it is maybe better to use range(start, end, steps)

    # print out an angle between 0° and 360° in steps of 15
for angle in range(0, 360, 15):
    print angle
    December 3, 2013 at 07:13 #5754

    qkeave
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    Sorry –> double post

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    December 3, 2013 at 07:13 #5756

    qkeave
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    Frederik, you are the man! I really appreciate the programming point.

    That being said I want to report a bug. >_<
    When you set the measurements via the scripting window it isn’t reflected in the WYSIWYG editor, even after CurrentFont().update().

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    December 4, 2013 at 12:44 #5758

    frederik
    Keymaster

    mm, I cannot reproduce this bug

    sample script:

    glyph = CurrentGlyph()

glyph.clearGuides()

for a in glyph.anchors:
    for angle in range(0, 180, 15):
        guide = glyph.addGuide((a.x, a.y), angle)
        guide.naked().showMeasurements = True
    January 9, 2014 at 21:41 #5763

    qkeave
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    Well this is what I used (https://github.com/qkeave/Robofab-tools/blob/master/Radial%20Guides.py)

    PS. How do I enable PrettyPrint on my code?

    # Add Radial Guides - Quinn Keaveney
g = CurrentGlyph()
ancs = []
gd = []

for angle in range(0, 180, 15):
    gd.append("Radial {0}deg".format(angle))

for a in g.anchors:
    b = a.name
    ancs.append(b)
    
if 'Radial Guide' not in ancs:
    g.appendAnchor("Radial Guide", (500, 500))

for a in g.guides:
    if a.name in gd:
        g.removeGuide(a)

for a in g.anchors:
    if a.name == 'Radial Guide':
        x = a.x
        y = a.y
        for angle in range(0, 180, 15):
            g.addGuide((x, y), angle, name=("Radial {0}deg".format(angle)))
            guide = g.addGuide((x, y), angle, name=("Radial {0}deg".format(angle)))
            guide.naked().showMeasurements = True

CurrentFont().update() 


print ''
print 'Digested by Python.'
    January 10, 2014 at 14:12 #5767

    frederik
    Keymaster

    see http://docs.python.org/library/pprint.html

    import pprint

data = [["nested Item1", "nested Item2", "nested Item3", "nested Item4"], "item1", "item2"]
pprint.pprint(data)

    good luck!

    January 14, 2014 at 07:33 #5770

    qkeave
    Participant

    Thanks!

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