Guides Through All Selected Nodes

1

I am wondering why this script returns two sets of guides, when just two nodes on a straight lines are selected. Not really sure what I should change to fix it.

2

Which script? If you want to discuss scripting issues, please post the code. If you have a bug report for a script, it is advisable to post an issue on GitHub.

3

Not sure, how to post an issue on GitHub. But here is the script.

#MenuTitle: Guides through All Selected Nodes
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
__doc__="""
Creates guides through all selected nodes.
"""

import math

thisFont = Glyphs.font # frontmost font
selectedLayers = thisFont.selectedLayers # active layers of selected glyphs

def angle( firstPoint, secondPoint ):
	"""
	Returns the angle (in degrees) of the straight line between firstPoint and secondPoint,
	0 degrees being the second point to the right of first point.
	firstPoint, secondPoint: must be NSPoint or GSNode
	"""
	xDiff = secondPoint.x - firstPoint.x
	yDiff = secondPoint.y - firstPoint.y
	return math.degrees(math.atan2(yDiff,xDiff))

def newGuide( position, angle ):
	newGuide = GSGuideLine()
	newGuide.position = position
	newGuide.angle = angle
	return newGuide

def isThereAlreadyAGuideWithTheseProperties(thisLayer,guideposition,guideangle):
	for thisGuide in thisLayer.guides:
		if thisGuide.angle == guideangle:
			if thisGuide.position == guideposition:
				return True
			elif angle(guideposition,thisGuide.position) % 180 == guideangle % 180:
				return True
	return False

if len(selectedLayers) == 1:
	thisLayer = selectedLayers[0]
	thisGlyph = thisLayer.parent
	currentPointSelection = [point.position for point in thisLayer.selection if type(point) == GSNode]
	
	# clear selection:
	Layer.clearSelection()
	
	thisGlyph.beginUndo() # begin undo grouping
	
	if len(currentPointSelection) > 1:
		currentPointSelection.append(currentPointSelection[0])
		for i,j in enumerate(range(1,len(currentPointSelection))):
			point1 = currentPointSelection[i]
			point2 = currentPointSelection[j]
			angleBetweenPoints = angle(point1,point2)
			middlePoint = addPoints(point1,point2)
			middlePoint.x *= 0.5
			middlePoint.y *= 0.5
			
			# create guide and add it to layer:
			if not isThereAlreadyAGuideWithTheseProperties(thisLayer, middlePoint, angleBetweenPoints):
				guideBetweenPoints = newGuide(middlePoint, angleBetweenPoints)
				thisLayer.guides.append( guideBetweenPoints )
			
			# select it:
			thisLayer.selection.append(guideBetweenPoints)
			
			
	thisGlyph.endUndo()   # end undo grouping
4

Two identical guides should not happen. I will have a look.

In the repository, you will find an Issues tab.

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5

Sorry, but there are some problems with my access to github. Can you tell me if you were able to reproduce the double guidelines issue?

6

I could and I am having a look.

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7

Were you able to sort it out? I checked the code, but am unsure why two guidelines appear instead of one?

8

you know that if you have two nodes selected and click “Add Guide” in the context menu, you get a line through the two nodes? (it works with two nodes only).

9

Certainly. The whole point of this is to have a shortcut, since Add Guide doesn’t support one, I am grateful to have Mekka’s Script. However, currently it adds two guides instead of one when two nodes are selected.

10

Thank you, Rainer!!! :kissing:

11

I fixed the script.

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12

Oh. Double thanks than.