Colored mask

Glyphs
#1

Hi, is there any way to show the mask with a fill (gray).
That would be extremely useful for my current project.

#2

Also, executing the following macro leads to an immidiate crash:

Font = Glyphs.font
for glyph in Font.glyphs:
print glyph.layers[0].background

#3

I just wrote a small plugin: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/3563666/FillBackgroundPathTool.glyphsReporter.zip

Double click it and then active it in the View menu (“Show Filled Background”) and disable “Show background”.

#4

The script works for me. But I changed a lot in the scripting bridge in last week. Maybe I fixed it.

#5

Thanks a lot for this!
It’s great that you can do something like this so easily with the GlyphsReporter protocol.

#6

If you have a look inside the plugin bundle > Contents/Resources/FillBackgroundPathTool.py There is the method
def drawBackgroundForLayer_(self, Layer):
There are only a few lines that do the trick.

#7

I noticed something weird:

If I have the plugin enabled & then run a script like this:
https://gist.github.com/2978968

The plugin stops drawing the background & the following error is thrown:
‘GSBackgroundLayer’ object is not callable (@L30: Path = Layer.background().bezierPath())

If I run the script while having the glyph open, the whole app becomes unresponsive and needs to be force quit.

#8

Or what do you think would be the best way to switch fore- and background?

#9

Please update the script and remove the brackets after “background”.

So line 30 should read: Path = Layer.background.bezierPath()

I added the background as a regular property to the python bridge.

If you need to change the fairground and the background, I usually copy the foreground, active the background and select everything and hit cmd+K, delete everything and paste the foreground: cmd+A > cmd+C > cmd+B > cmd+A > cmd + K > del > cmd+V. This looks much longer as it takes to do it :wink: