foregroundInViewCoords() missing 1 required positional argument: 'layer'

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Hi I’m using:

@objc.python_method
def foregroundInViewCoords(self, layer):
	font = Glyphs.font
	currentTab = font.currentTab
	...

But I get foregroundInViewCoords() missing 1 required positional argument: ‘layer’.
Any ideas? What I’m missing here.

Best!

2

Where are you calling this function?

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in the main class of a reporter plugin

4

Can you show the code that is calling the function? It appears the error is originating at the function call site.

5

Sure.
showMasterName.glyphsReporter.zip (19.7 KB)

6

The Glyphs API calls foregroundInViewCoords with no arguments, so your function definition cannot have a layer parameter. You might want to use the foreground method which does get the layer passed as an argument. See the Reporter Plgun documentation:

Edit: I see there is a mention of foregroundInViewCoords with a layer parameter in the documentation. I will investigate whether the documentation or the API is incorrect about this.

In the meantime, get the active layer with self.activeLayer().

7

Thanks for the clarification, now it works. I was reading the docs and I copied the function from the example, there uses layer as argument. I will post an issue on the docs repo.

8

Already reported. Thank you for finding this issue.

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I fixed it.