Trigger drawbot plugin trough script

Scripting
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I have a script for the Drawbot plugin, but I want to trigger directly from the scripts menu instead of open Drawbot window and paste the code.
Is it possible?

Thanks in advance

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If you don’t need the UI of the plugin, you should be able to just import drawBot.

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Sorry maybe I wasn’t clear.
I need the UI (the output/drawing area), but I want to open it directly from the script instead of opening from File>New Drawbot.

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do you just need to open a new drawBot window or do you like to draw into it. The later is not possible.

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Draw into it. :frowning: Because my script takes the instances weight value of the open fonts and draw the interpolation curve, just for visualize the progression.
What I want is to do more straight forward the use of the script. I don’t know if I can draw with vanilla.
Thanks anyway.

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You can use the same commands that you use in a normal script in the drawBot, too.

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Thanks Georg for all the help. One more little question (I think this is the last one).

I’m running the script from the Scripts menu, without the Drawbot UI, creates a pdf in my desktop. But when I run again the script. Drawbot draws on top of the last drawing. I need my scripts erase the previous drawing and draw in a blank page. I think this might be related to “drawBot.context” something that I saw on the console but I don’t know what it is.

Here I attach the script, because Im testing is not very “responsive” yet, instances with weight bigger than 180 are drawn outside of the canvas.
InterpolationCurve.zip (1.3 KB)

Thanks in advance. Regards.

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That is a problem with the drawBot environment. I found the answer in this document: https://media.readthedocs.org/pdf/drawbot/latest/drawbot.pdf

add newDrawing() before size(w, h)

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Thank you Georg! Now it works! Thanks for the link to that pdf too.