[Sugar-devel] [GSOC] Font Editor Next Steps

[Sam P.]

On 25 May 2016 8:45:53 AM AEST, Yash Agarwal <agrwal.ysh94 at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 7:18 PM Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com> wrote:
>
>> On 23 May 2016 at 18:52, Yash Agarwal <agrwal.ysh94 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>    - Dave, Eli could you guys make a UI mock for the character map, 
>so
>>>    that I can build it tomorrow
>>>
>>>
>> I think the current plan is for a horizontal bar along the top, like
>in
>> Eli's HTML mock:
>>
>>
>>
>https://sugarlabs.github.io/edit-fonts-activity/mockups/EditFontsMockUpJS.activity/
>>
>>
>
>My aim for today was to build this, but I couldn't figure out how to
>make
>the Gtk layout, Then I decided to go through this link to gain more
>understanding about the Gtk workings and basic fundamentals, though its
>for
>Gtk 2 it explains the fundamentals quite well
>http://www.pygtk.org/dist/pygtk2-tut.pdf

You might be interested in the gtk3 version:  https://python-gtk-3-tutorial.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Sugar uses gtk3, and there are some differences vs gtk2.
>
>I also found this amazing list of demos
>https://git.gnome.org/browse/pygobject/tree/demos/gtk-demo/demos
>
>apart from this I also reread the FLOSS Manual to better understand the
>tasks at hand. Well thats all I did Today, and I'll hope to make a
>working
>demo the character map tomorrow.
>
>I think we will also need a table, like the TruFont one:
>>
>> https://sugarlabs.github.io/edit-fonts-activity/files/img/3.png
>>
>>
>>>    - [Regarding defcon] I am having a some trouble understanding the
>>>    concept behind the representation factories and notifications,
>>>
>>>
>> Please be more specific, perhaps quoting the part of the docs you are
>> unclear about :)
>>
>>
>http://ts-defcon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/concepts/representations.html
>>
>> http://ts-defcon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/concepts/notifications.html
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_pattern
>>
>This was what I was looking for, thanks, Gtk also uses this
>
>>
>>
>how should I implement these in the glyphRenderer Class?
>>
>>
>> I'm not sure - what does TruFont do?
>>
>>
>>>    - whats the difference between an Anchor and Point in an UFO
>file?
>>>
>>>
>> A point is a bezier point, part of a contour.
>>
>> An anchor is a 'singleton' point, used to 'snap' glyphs together
>using
>> OpenType Features (GPOS/GSUB code)
>>
>> https://glyphsapp.com/tutorials/diacritics
>>
>
>do we need to implement these in our activity?
>
>>
>>
>> https://fontforge.github.io/overview.html#Anchors
>>
>> --
>> Cheers
>> Dave
>>
>
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