Faulty GlyphsSDK documentation: inspector views using vanilla

SCarewe · May 27, 2023, 5:22pm

Hello, I am trying to build an inspector view using vanilla, but the documentation in GlyphsSDK is wrong, it’s a copy-paste from general context menus. How do I correctly build an inspector view using vanilla? Thanks!

GeorgSeifert · May 27, 2023, 7:56pm

Can you point me to the text in question?

SCarewe · May 27, 2023, 8:12pm

github.com

schriftgestalt/GlyphsSDK/blob/Glyphs3/Python Templates/SelectTool/README.md

Welcome to Glyphs.app’s plug-in documentation! This document covers only some details of the process. If you are new to the subject, we recommend you start with [reading our tutorial](https://glyphsapp.com/tutorials/plugins), which points you back here at the appropriate moment.

## Select Tool

The Select Tool Plugin creates a replacement for the standard select tool and lets you extend its functionality.

You can add context menus (that appear on the user’s mouse right-click), both general context menus (they always appear) as well as conditional context menus (they only appear under a certain condition defined in your code).

In its naked version, the plug-in behaves exactly like the built-in select tool.

![](../_Readme_Images/selecttool.png)

## User code

A functional plug-in can be as small as this (in `Contents/Resources/plugin.py`):

```python
# encoding: utf-8

from GlyphsApp.plugins import *

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At the bottom, last section.

Mark · May 28, 2023, 4:17am

Right. Actually not in the text, but the code example to be specific, where it sets the view to the generalContext menu

self.generalContextMenus = [
			{"view": self.sliderMenuView.group.getNSView()}
		]

Also the Interface Builder section does not show how to actually get it shown. The example just shows how the access the UI bits in Python.

Perhaps add the required code to the doc that shows how to return the view to the inspector views. (Maybe also a hint for the Objective-C implementation.)

GeorgSeifert · May 28, 2023, 11:35am

I messed around with the sample code. Hope it is an improvement.

Mark · May 28, 2023, 1:27pm

Thanks a ton!