Get Info panel position

Scripting
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Hi! I’m trying to add some info to go next to tab’s info view; can I ask what’s the best way to do that, how to get its position on the screen?

I use tab.viewPort.origin to calculate the position, but it seems like a long way around and the text is jumpy because of the rounding.

tab.graphicView().infoView().bounds.origin is always (0, 0), so that’s doesn’t help either. Am I overlooking something obvious?

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What do you try to put there?

tab.graphicView().infoView().frame()

should work.

Or use the insectorView API to add your own info box.

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Thank you, that’s much better!
Almost there, just showing the angle:

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However, in Glyphs 2 one can add a GSInspectorView to the panel with view method, but it doesn’t work in Glyphs 3. Is it different now?

def view(self):
    return self.window.group.getNSView()

Also, is there a way to change its position relative to the main panel? I’d put it above the width/height rather than on the right.

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FYI that should be Font.currentTab.infoView().frame() (or with your tab variable tab.infoView().frame())

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you need to return an NSViewController.

What class and superclass is self?

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I found that in your comment from a couple of years ago. So, self is ReporterPlugin, pretty much the same code.

Any hints on how to return NSViewController, please? Can’t find it among properties of anything.

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viewController = NSViewController.new()
viewController.setView_(self.window.group.getNSView())
return viewController

You should store that viewController in a local variable that you can reuse it.

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Oh I see, thank you! But seems like that crashes Glyphs

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Can you send me the full code (privately if needed)?

10

Sure, I was going to submit it for Plugin Manager anyway:

By the way, if you can explain how to position it at some coordinates above the default panel rather then next to it, I think it would look better :slight_smile:

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You know that there is a plugin that does something similar: GitHub - Mark2Mark/Show-Distance-And-Angle-Of-Nodes

12

Of course, I just prefer such secondary info to blend with the interface rather than sit right on top of paths

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That plugin has sadly been broken since 3.2, I miss it dearly :cry:

14

I fixed the Distance and Angle plugin.

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Any hints on that error, please?

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The view method has to return a view, not a view controller. My code snippet would need to go into inspectorViewControllersForLayer_(). But your hack to return [self] works, too. I fixed the code but can’t push the changes. Can you add me to the repo?

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