Opening font via a script raises traceback

Scripting
1

So I want to perform some operations on a font, then revert the entire font and reopen. I have a short script that seems to do what I want…

font = Glyphs.font
myPath = font.filepath
#DO SOME FUN STUFF
font.close([True])
Glyphs.open(myPath)
font = Glyphs.font
#Do more stuff…

However, even though the font opens correctly in the viewer, I am getting a traceback…

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “AlignComponents.py”, line 34, in
Glyphs.open(myPath)
File “/Users/georg/Programmierung/Glyphs/Glyphs/Glyphs/Scripts/GlyphsApp.py”, line 291, in OpenFont
AttributeError: ‘tuple’ object has no attribute ‘font’

and the “more stuff” doesn’t happen, apparently because the font object can’t be read or manipulated further after that traceback.

2

Fixed it. For now, use plain Cocoa:

URL = NSURL.fileURLWithPath_(Path)
Doc = NSDocumentController.sharedDocumentController().openDocumentWithContentsOfURL_display_error_(URL, showInterface, None)[0]
if Doc is not None:
	print Doc.font
3

Hmm. The Cocoa method produces a different traceback… Forgive the single quotes below. I couldn’t figure out how to get the < and > to show up without adding them.

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “<‘string’>”, line 8, in <‘module’>
NameError: name ‘showInterface’ is not defined

4

This is a argument variable. Add showInterface = YES before the second line.

5

Success! Thanks Georg. Have a great weekend.

6

I just uploaded a new version that fixes the problem.

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