Drawing layer in viewPort coords

Scripting
1

Hey,

I may be missing something rather obvious here, but is there are relatively straightforward way to draw a glyph Layer in the top left corner of the viewPort, like one can draw text/other bezier paths just using viewPort.origin.x/.y?

At the moment my early tests seem to draw it in with coordinated relative to the glyph origin, not the viewport. I know there’s likely a workaround using maths and the methods that are accessible via currentTab, but just in case I’m making it harder than it needs to be…

thanks!

2

The selectedLayerOrigin attribute of the current tab may help you in that case:
https://docu.glyphsapp.com/#gseditviewcontroller

3

Are you making a Reporter plugin? Then there are the drawBackgroundWithOptions_() and drawForegroundWithOptions_() callbacks.

This is from the FramesPerSecond plugin. It is written in ObjectiveC, but you will get the point.

- (void)drawForegroundWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)options {
	fpsCounter++;
	if (fpsMilisec + 1.0 < [NSDate timeIntervalSinceReferenceDate]) {
		fpsFramesPerSecond = fpsCounter / ([NSDate timeIntervalSinceReferenceDate] - fpsMilisec);
		fpsMilisec = [NSDate timeIntervalSinceReferenceDate];
		fpsCounter = 0;
	}
	NSRect VisibleRect = [editViewController.graphicView visibleRect];
	VisibleRect = NSInsetRect(VisibleRect, 2, 2);
	NSColor* color;
	if (fpsFramesPerSecond > 22) {
		color = [NSColor greenColor];
	}
	else if (fpsFramesPerSecond > 14) {
		color = [NSColor greenColor];
	}
	else {
		color = [NSColor redColor];
	}
	[[NSString stringWithFormat:@"fps: %.1f", fpsFramesPerSecond] drawAtPoint:VisibleRect.origin color:color alignment:GSBottomLeft];
}