MarkSimonson

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  • November 22, 2012 at 01:29 in reply to: Invalid groups #5268

    MarkSimonson
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    An easy way I’ve found is to go to the Finder, right-click or control-click on the UFO and select “Show Package Contents”. You will see a file called “groups.plist”. Open that in a plain text editor (like BBEdit or TextMate) and then search for ' (the apostrophe) and replace with “” (nothing). Save the file and reopen the UFO in RoboFont. If the UFO was already open in RoboFont, it will put up a message about the UFO having been changed outside of RoboFont, which you can confirm.

    (Edit: Those should be “dumb” quotes above, not smart quotes. The forum software seems to be “fixing” them automatically.)

    October 11, 2012 at 19:51 in reply to: Additional Space Center windows in Single Window Mode #4683

    MarkSimonson
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    Oops, I missed that part. I always work in Many Window Mode.

    October 11, 2012 at 17:52 in reply to: Additional Space Center windows in Single Window Mode #4681

    MarkSimonson
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    Indeed! Option-click on the Space Center icon. (via @RoboFontCanThis on Twitter, which I discovered the other day.)

    October 11, 2012 at 02:34 in reply to: Floating Inspector palette #4675

    MarkSimonson
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    Well, just take a look at how the palettes behave in, say, Photoshop or, really, any other app that has palettes (Pages, BBEdit, er… FontLab).

    In all these other apps, focus in text fields in palettes is active only temporarily, while you’re actively editing text. As soon as you hit [return], focus goes back to the document window. If you click on a button or adjust a slider on a floating palette, the palette only has focus momentarily, and as soon as you are done with the click or the adjustment in the palette, the document immediately has focus again.

    In Robofont, you often have to click on the document window in order for it to regain focus after doing something in the Inspector palette. I find this behavior to be non-standard and disruptive. It feels unnatural, or at least violates my expectations about how it should work based on experience with palettes in other apps.

    There is probably something about this in the old Apple HIG (Human Interface Guidelines).

    October 9, 2012 at 01:44 in reply to: Floating Inspector palette #4657

    MarkSimonson
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    Well, that particular case works now, but the Inspector palette still doesn’t behave like a floating palette for other things. The Inspector palette still takes the focus away from the other windows when you click in it, making it necessary to click in the other window before for mouse events to work in it again.

    April 12, 2012 at 21:37 in reply to: Layers disappearing #3957

    MarkSimonson
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    Okay, thanks.

    April 12, 2012 at 20:05 in reply to: Layers disappearing #3953

    MarkSimonson
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    RoboFont: 1.2
    Prepolator: 1.0.4

    The UFOs I’m working with came from FontLab (using UFO Central). There is only a foreground layer, aparrently.

    March 14, 2012 at 00:00 in reply to: Observers and events #3811

    MarkSimonson
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    Here’s the script I’ve been working on:

    http://www.ms-studio.com/Robofont/PangrammerHelper.py

    It’s a little window for composing pangrams. If Space Center is active, it displays them there as well.

    March 13, 2012 at 22:28 in reply to: Observers and events #3807

    MarkSimonson
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    Yes, that will work! Thanks!

    Sorry for not being clearer about what I was trying to accomplish — I could have spared you from writing all that code in your previous response. I appreciate your time.

    March 13, 2012 at 21:51 in reply to: Observers and events #3801

    MarkSimonson
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    Ah, okay. I may be able to work from this.

    Essentially, though, I have a little window built with vanilla with a textEditor in it, and I want to get and set the text in the Space Center text field. This is in the form of a list of glyph names, while the vanilla textEditor field is in the form of a string.

    The font I’m using is whatever the default is in the vanilla textEditor field (Helvetica of some kind).

    March 13, 2012 at 19:56 in reply to: Observers and events #3798

    MarkSimonson
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    Okay, plan B then.

    Is there a way to go back and forth between a list of glyphs and a string? For example,

    Go from this:

    [‘H’, ‘e’, ‘l’, ‘l’, ‘o’, ‘exclam’]

    to this:

    “Hello!”

    and back again? Seems like there should be something like this built into one of the included packages, but I don’t know where to start looking.

    March 13, 2012 at 14:22 in reply to: Unable to save UFO #3783

    MarkSimonson
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    I see. Thanks!

    March 13, 2012 at 13:15 in reply to: Unable to save UFO #3780

    MarkSimonson
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    It many have something to do with my failed attempt to install hTools2 (listed on the extensions page). I couldn’t figure out how to do it, so I was trying all sorts of different things before giving up.

    March 11, 2012 at 17:48 in reply to: Unable to save UFO #3764

    MarkSimonson
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    Never mind, I was able to fix it by deleting the prefs file.

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