is autohint enabled for test intall? (see preferences)

if so see topic: blue values required when generating otf with autohinting

He Travis

this is a know issue, once generating fails the print outs send to the output window gets lost….

this will be solved in the next version.

the best workaround is to use a local install of FDK

a quick tip if you a really, really want to debug in FL:

redirect the stdout and stderr to a file instead if printing it into FLs output window, cause can FL *can* quit unexpectedly.

import sys

f = open(u"/Users/frederik/Desktop/FLlog.txt", "w")

savedstdout = sys.stdout
savedstderr = sys.stderr

sys.stdout = f
sys.stderr = f

print "hello world"

f.close()

sys.stdout = savedstdout 
sys.stderr = savedstderr 

This will also work in RoboFont off course!! your scripts will still be exchangeable.

another tip:
visual debugging is in most cases a bad idea…. or you should make a .png, .pdf that you can review afterwards. Use DrawBot or the tinyDrawBot extension (will released when 1.2 is out)

works!
but it will never make it into RF, sorry :)

import time

def update(font):
    document = font.document()
    for windowController in document.windowControllers():
        window = windowController.window()
        contentView = window.contentView()
        contentView.displayIfNeeded()
        

f = CurrentFont()

g = f["A"]

s = time.time()

for angle in range(0, 360, 15):
    g.rotate(angle)
    update(f)

print time.time() - s


s = time.time()
for angle in range(0, 360, 15):
    g.rotate(angle)
    f.update()

print time.time() - s

(with a font window open, glyph window open and Space Center open)

For such a simple task it takes one 1 sec more to update.

>>> 1.04617500305
>>> 0.0473890304565

So this is not a good plan unless you realllllyy like coffee or having days with 25 hours or when the sun is turning half speed….

if this is the case you can install a script during startup that add an observer to a fontChanged notification and updates all the possible windows and views.

solved in the next version :)

thanks for reporting

there is a myFont.update() :)

that is posting a font is changed notification to all the subscribed objects

see http://doc.robofont.com/api/robofab-extras/

(just seeing that the glyph.update() is not listed in the docs, will add this as well)

true,
but you first have to click to be able to drag some metrics and when a glyph is clicked a rectangle is been drawn the size of the width

Do you remember you copied the contour in RoboFont first? There was a bug in copy paste (you see the starting point jumping) during copying contours. This should be solved in the next version (1.2)