Due to optimisations a text will not update directly cause it is receiving lots of updates in a short time.

You will have to force the text view to update

see https://github.com/typesupply/defconAppKit/blob/master/Lib/defconAppKit/windows/progressWindow.py#L27-L31

instead of using the private _nsObject I would encourage you to use getNSTextField()

good luck

use:

g = CurrentGlyph()

contour = g[1]
contour.selected = True
g.update()

the best thing todo is to draw the glyph into a pen store and process the data and draw it back into the glyph

this should work :)

enjoy

from robofab.pens.pointPen import AbstractPointPen

class SortingPen(AbstractPointPen):
    
    def __init__(self):
        self._contours = []
        
    def beginPath(self):
        self._contours.append([])
                       
    def addPoint(self, pt, segmentType=None, smooth=False, name=None, **kwargs):
        self._contours[-1].append((pt, segmentType, smooth, name, kwargs))
    
    def endPath(self):
        pass

    def addComponent(self, baseGlyph, transformation):
        pass   
            
    def drawPoints(self, pen):
        # sort by the len of oncurves and offcurvers for each contour
        sortable = []
        for contour in self._contours:
            oncurves = 0
            offcurves = 0
            for pt, segmentType, smooth, name, kwargs in contour:
                if segmentType is None:
                    offcurves += 1
                else:
                    oncurves += 1
            sortable.append((oncurves, offcurves, contour))
        sortable.sort()

        for oncurvers, offcurvers, contour in sortable:
            pen.beginPath()
            for pt, segmentType, smooth, name, kwargs in contour:
                pen.addPoint(pt, 
                            smooth=smooth, 
                            segmentType=segmentType, 
                            name=name, 
                            **kwargs)
            pen.endPath()
        
     

# get the current glyph
g = CurrentGlyph()
# get the pen
sorting = SortingPen()
# draw into that pen
g.drawPoints(sorting)
# clear the contours
g.clearContours()
# draw back into the glyph
sorting.drawPoints(g.getPointPen())

The font lib key will be com.typesupply.ufo2fdk.glyphOrderAndAliasDB and will also be used in Tal’s ufo2fdk package.

I would advice you to use getExtensionDefault(key, fallback) and setExtensionDefault(key, value)

see http://doc.robofont.com/api/mojo/mojo-extensions/

He

I don’t fully understand why but here is a script that is changing the size and position of the current window to the pervious current window

from AppKit import NSApp
# get all ordered windows
windows = NSApp().orderedWindows()
# get the size of the window
(x, y), (w, h) =  windows[1].frame()
# set the size of the window
windows[0].setFrame_display_animate_(((x, y), (w, h)), True, False)

good luck!

it should, just change the ext of the save image path to .gif or .mov

if it not get generated: is there a traceback, does it export as pdf? with multiple pages?

can you make an example?

thanks