Python development for Glyphs.app

These are text editor snippets intended to facilitate Python (both 2 and 3) development for Glyphs.app. Have fun.

TextMate: Since I use TextMate myself, the TextMate snippets can safely be assumed to be up to date most of the time.

Sublime Text: Newer versions of Sublime Text can read TextMate bundles, so you are up to date automatically. See installation instructions below.

Atom: Since I don’t use Atom, I depend on other people’s pull requests. Hence, the Atom snippets are usually out of date. If you want up-to-date snippets for Atom, feel free to contribute to this repository on a regular basis.

Snippets

• gspy⇥ Basic structure of a Glyphs script that iterates through selected layers.
• title⇥ MenuTitle (name of the script as it appears in the Script menu) and docstring (text for the tooltip).
• clear⇥ Clears the Macro Window log.
• macro⇥ Clears the Macro Window log and brings the Macro Window to the front.
• angle⇥ Function returning the angle between two points.
• center⇥ Convenience function returning the center (as NSPoint) of an NSRect.
• circle⇥ Function returning a GSPath containing a circle.
• otclass⇥ Function that creates or (if it already exists) updates an OpenType class.
• otfeature⇥ Function that creates or (if it already exists) updates an OpenType feature.
• italic⇥ Function that returns a point position that respects an italic angle.
• offset⇥ Function that offsets a GSLayer.
• round⇥ Function that rounds the corners of a GSLayer.
• measurement⇥ Function that returns intersection points (like the Measurement tool does) of the decomposed and overlap-removed layer.
• msg⇥ Function for displaying a simple (non-Vanilla) message dialog.
• select⇥ Adds item on a layer to the user selection.
• tab⇥ Opens a new tab with supplied text or collection of layers.
• transform⇥ Function for creating a NSAffineTransform object, necessary for shifting, scaling, skewing, rotating.
• bezier⇥ Function for returning the x,y for a given t on a cubic Bézier curve segment.
• clipboard⇥ Function for setting the clipboard.
• random⇥ Import the random library, seed, and create a random integer.
• sort⇥ Sort a list of objects by a certain attribute of those objects (e.g. layers by their max y).
• terminal⇥ Execute a Terminal (bash) command.
• trace⇥ Import the traceback library and print a traceback. Useful for except clauses.
• subtract⇥ Subtract GSPath objects.
• intersect⇥ Intersect GSPath objects.
• timer⇥ Method for taking and reporting elapsed time.
• notification⇥ Display a floating notification in top right corner of screen.
• write⇥ Method saveFileInLocation() for writing UTF-8 string into a new file.
• keys⇥ NSEvent algorithm for determining which modifier keys are pressed by the user.
• g23⇥ Differentiating code for Glyphs 2 and 3.
• fut⇥ The from future imports for Glyphs 2/3 and Python 2/3 compatibility.
• update⇥ Send an interface update notification to the Notification Center. Only use this to force a UI update if Glyphs does not redraw as it should. (Glyphs 2 only.)

Vanilla-specific snippets

• gsgui⇥ Basic structure of a Glyphs script with a dialog (GUI). Uses Vanilla.
• pref⇥ Register, load, register & load, or save preferences for Vanilla GUI items.
• button⇥ Vanilla popup and square button.
• text⇥ Vanilla text box or text edit field.
• checkbox⇥ Vanilla checkbox.
• radio⇥ Vanilla radiobuttons.
• progress⇥ Vanilla progress bar.
• tooltip⇥ Tooltip for a Vanilla object.
• vanilla⇥ Show help for Vanilla classes.

Plugin SDK-specific snippets

• dec⇥ Decorators.
• rgb⇥ NSColor object with RGB definition.
• plugindef⇥ Function definition structure better suited for the Plugin SDK.
• log⇥ Log a message to the console.
• url⇥ Prefill the productPageURL or updateFeedURL entry of a plug-in’s Info.plist with a GitHub URL.
• key⇥ Define a keyboard shortcut for a plug-in, including the modifier keys.
• cond⇥ Inserts the conditionsAreMetForDrawing() method for Reporter plug-ins. It will return False if the user is in text mode or switched to the Hand tool (H).

Installation

• TextMate bundle: double click to install
• Sublime Text: Open Sublime Text > Preferences > Browse Packages… and move the Python for Glyphs.tmbundle into the folder that appears
• Atom: move to ~/.atom/packages/python-to-glyphs

License

Copyright 2014 Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer (@mekkablue). Some code by Georg Seifert (@schriftgestalt). Atom adaptation by Kenneth Ormandy (@kennethormandy).

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

See the License file included in this repository for further details.