Plugin example code for displaying nib-based UI

Scripting
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Hi,

I’ve just started looking into writing my first Glyphs plugin and have been looking at the template code available in the repository along with its documentation. I would like to load a nib-based UI from a class that is similar to the General Plugin example but can’t quite figure out how. I’ve succeeded doing this with a Filter (i.e by following the “Filter with Dialog” example), however, the behaviour of Filters is not quite what I need. I assume I would have to somehow instantiate or get a reference to the view controller and then call showWindow on it(?)

Any help/advice along with some basic example code on how to go about this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
Mark

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What exactly are you trying to do?
How familiar are you with PyObjC? Or Cocoa, for that matter?

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Hi Rainer,
I want to collect some basic user input (spacing values) which I then want to apply to either a selected set of Glyphs or all Glyphs. I’m not too familiar with PyObjC, I’m afraid. Cocoa is also fairly new to me, but I know my way around Cocoa Touch/UIKit from iOS development.

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Are you writing this in ObjectiveC? I can make a small sample project tomorrow. But you can google ‚NSWindowController example‘ and find plenty of reference.