Returning width and height of the segment an off-curve handle belongs to?

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Hello,

I’m looking to cobble together a reporter plugin which shows the percentage strength of the off-curve handles of a segment.

I know that I can use node.type to figure out if a node is off-curve or not, but I’m not sure if there is an easy way to get the coordinates of the on-curve points of that segment. It feels like there should be…?

If not, I should be able to get the values I need by taking the difference in x and y values of node n-1 and n+2, or node n-2 and n+1, depending on whether node n+1 is on-curve or off-curve. It does seem a bit convoluted though, especially as I’ll need to reference the path’s final node and first node for the final segment of the path.

Any advice is greatly appreciated!

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That is exactly right.

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Thanks Rainer!

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The offcurve nodes do not ‘belong’ to the oncurve node. They are just regular nodes.

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I don’t think I said (or implied) that an off-curve node belongs to an on-curve node?

It seems ok to say that an off-curve node must belong to a path segment, and - assuming the path is closed - each of the on-curve nodes must belong to (or be part of the construction of) two path segments. Maybe there is a better word to use than belong?

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You are right. I just wanted to make sure.

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Something like this? / SUPERTOOL >> You can install it from Plugin Manager

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That is pretty much what I’m looking for, thanks very much! Now I just need to figure out how to change the colour it renders in as that blue isn’t very legible in dark mode.

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I checked the SuperTool source code and cleaned it up a bit and improved the color to work better in dark mode. I need to figure out how to build it for release.

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