PickGlyphs issue

Scripting
1

Hello, I wrote a small script to paste a component into the background in all masters.

I used PickGlyphs, but I see that that method automatically pasted the selected glyph as a component into the current layer. Is this intentional?

def paste_component_to_background():
 g = PickGlyphs(searchString=Layer.parent.name.split(".")[0])[0]
 if not g:
  return
 if len(g) > 1:
  Message(title="Too many glyphs picked", message="Choose exactly one glyph")

 s = g[0]
 for l in Layer.parent.layers:
  b = l.background
  b.clear()
  c = GSComponent(s)
  b.components.append(c)

paste_component_to_background()
2

I can’t reproduce it.

3

True. Me neither. I just got this report from a user, I wrote the script from my phone and didn’t try it out. I will ask again.

4

can you ask what version of Glyphs the user has?

5

Hmm, I can produce an unexpected behaviour:

Open any glyph
Run script, select a glyph
The script will paste the component into the background, but also open the selected glyph (replace the current glyph in edit view with the glyph selected in PickGlyphs)

6

if works for me as it should.