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typemytype
add toggle to pause updates in the background
–Without pausing updates, RF becomes super slow if I want to temporarily work on a glyph without closing this window. –Many times updating a glyph is necessary in the middle of accent building, and I donʻt want to have to always close the GlyphBuilder window and loose my place. –Pausing updates makes it possible to switch to drawing a glyph for a while, or even switch to another typeface for a while, without RF becoming so slow itʻs unusable. –Iʻm sure my code can be improved, and fixes are welcome! Perhaps the checkbox state becomes a preference setting that is saved for next time you open GlyphBuilder (word-o-mat does something like this)? Personally, I would leave this checked maybe 90% of the time.
Thanks @typemytype for considering the PR!
–Just tried this and found out that even running a script to addAnchors runs much faster now, almost runs instantly, with the Pause Updates box checked : )
I renamed to "Pause Observer" to avoid confusion. And I changed the unpause behavior so the window doesnʻt scroll back up to top of window, this was getting annoying
good plan! only the code is really way to complex for what it should do :)
could you test these changes?
implemented without fiddling around with pauseFonts + renamed it to "Live Updating"
Thank you!! I’ll give it a try
On Fri, Apr 7, 2023 at 8:02 AM Frederik Berlaen @.***> wrote:
could you test these changes?
implemented without fiddling around with pauseFonts + renamed it to "Live Updating"
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–Overall looks great, very happy with this!
–Small thing:
I noticed that when Live Updates is unchecked, if I change a contour or component and then click back to the window the Glyph Builder drawing updates when I click back to window: good!
When I move an anchor, the Glyph Builder drawing doesn't update when I click back to the window. I have to click "Refresh" to see updates from anchor changes. I would expect the anchor change behavior to match contour changes.
Thanks so much!