Tool should be just a window instead of an edit tool?
colinmford opened this issue · 2 comments
There are benefits to both approaches.
If Transmutor was a window, you could use other tools with it (like the measurement tool @connordavenport just added. Or edit an outline. A drawback would be managing all of the edge cases that might occur when the user isn't just using the tool.
Keeping it as a tool simplifies the situation because you know the tool has the user's attention.
Inspiration for the window method include Outliner and Rotator.
An open debate.
One benefit to this would be to adjust existing contours while Transmuting prospective ones (e.g. the ring around a registered while Transmuting an R)
One issue you might run into is how well you'll be able to control other interactions (e.g. frankrolf/Rotator#4), but honestly, I can't think of too many things you'd want to stop from happening. Maybe only disable marquee if scaling in glyph editor with your mouse.
See commented out lines here, for what I couldn't get to work: https://github.com/frankrolf/Rotator/blob/8af6fbe9ee2d5736a4ce894a414e28e76a4b9ead/Rotator.roboFontExt/lib/rotator.py#L399
Made it a window instead of a tool for v2.0