I’ve tried to do this, but hit a problem: I want to put the window hiding code in willDeactivate, but due to recent changes, willDeactivate is called when I click on the floating window, which of course makes it immediately disappear. I don’t know how to say “deactivated and now using a different tool.”
Related, I would ideally like to be able to set up the start and end points using the current UI, and then be able to show the thicknesses while dragging points around. In other words, I need something that combines the functionality of a tool and a reporter. I’ve heard that in 2.3 this is possible, but I don’t know of any documentation/examples of how to achieve it.
Is there a secret how to select the path? Sometimes Callipers does nothing, sometimes very wired results (see image attached). It would be great to get this working, it’s a fantastic plugin!
it happens quite often. Maybe when the contour is complex (overlapping paths)? In the second example (b) it just seems to take the other direction. But I don’t know have to influence this. The first example (e), I don’t know. Same result when I delete the overlaps, or use the same start and ending in character “c”.
I’ll have a look (probably tomorrow morning). There have been a few API changes which have broken a number of my extensions and so I need to sit down and get them all working again. In the mean time, why haven’t you bought SuperTool? It’s got Callipers functionality built in.
It seems to work if I Option-Drag the lines. There are some display errors (e.g. the colouring does not go away when I switch to a different glyph), though. Seems a bit unstable.
Simon, are you saying that Callipers through SuperTool works more reliably than the stand-alone version?
As you can imagine, the other tools in SuperTool are not relevant for me.
Hi Ludwig. If you have a recent version, you should be able to option drag a start (green) and end (red) line to get a visualization of stem thickness. If that doesn’t work, you may not have the latest - shoot me an email and I’ll send you a copy.
I don’t think so; they should be based on the same code, although it’s possible I made changes to one repository but not the other. I will take a look at the code and make sure that the standalone Callipers plugin is up to date.
SuperTool should be fine - what were the problems you saw with Callipers in the past? Because they’re using the same code, it may be that if there are problems in Callipers, they’ll be in SuperTool too; but it may also be that I’ve fixed them (in both places!) since you last tried!
Just downloaded the plugin but can’t seem to get it to work. I’ve read through the description of how to use it and read through the comments but still no luck. After I drag the first green line it then disappears not allowing me to draw the second red line.
