Script to Standalone app

eduairet

@frederik sweet, I’ll give the package a try, I thought about using the app because it needs to be an executable and avoid the run part of the workflow.

eduairet

Is there a way to execute the Run command using shell or applescript?

frederik

If drawBot is installed as a module you can access it anywhere!

If Variable(..) is a key thing in your script, use a drawBot package, where you can set a main script that gets executed when the file is opened in DrawBot.app.

eduairet

@frederik thanks!!! I just got curious about it. I'm having a problem with the package, it doesn't open the script when I open it in DrawBot, this is the tree I have

myPackage.drawbot
├── info.plist
└── lib
    ├── squareAdjustments.py
    ├── logoAdjustments.py
    ├── fontAdjustments.py
    ├── userText.py
    ├── main.py
    ├── resources
    │   └── fonts
    │       ├── VF.ttf
    │       └── Logo.otf
    └── save.py

When I open main by itself it runs

frederik

this should work!

You can open the debugger in drawBot by hitten alt with the help menu open.

eduairet

Debugger shows the problem now:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "main.py", line 45, in <module>
  File "drawBot/drawBotDrawingTools.pyc", line 2548, in Variable
drawBot.misc.DrawBotError: There is no document open

It works if I run main.py does it need to open a window first and then run Variable?

eduairet

@eduairet I tried this and now opens the script and it's not giving me errors but it still doesn't run entirely:

openWindows = Quartz.CGWindowListCopyWindowInfo(
    Quartz.kCGWindowListOptionOnScreenOnly | Quartz.kCGWindowListExcludeDesktopElements, Quartz.kCGNullWindowID
)
openWindows = [window.get('kCGWindowName', u'Unknown').encode('ascii','ignore') for window in openWindows if window['kCGWindowOwnerName'] == 'DrawBot']
if b'main.py' not in openWindows:
    os.system(f'open -a DrawBot {__file__}')

frederik

that is way to complex

Variable works fine with the UI of drawBot... dont use it outside a drawBot document

You will have more control when you build it with vanilla and use this in a drawBot packages.

import vanilla


class MyController:
    
    def __init__(self):
        self.w = vanilla.Window((150, 40), "My Tool Name")
        self.w.slider = vanilla.Slider((10, 10, -10, 22), callback=self.sliderCallback)
        self.w.open()
    
    def sliderCallback(self, sender):        
        x = sender.get()
        newDrawing()
        fill(random(), random(), random())
        oval(x, 0, 1000, 1000)
        saveImage('/Users/frederik/Desktop/issueDrawBotPackage/test.pdf')
        endDrawing()
    

MyController()

this script wrapped in a .drawBot package

eduairet

Thanks Frederik you've helped me a lot!!!

imik

Hi @eduairet I stumpled upon your thread as I am currently working on something similar. I need to share some code for someone else to work with and the package seems to be a perfect fit.

I just have a problem that my font is not loaded from the resource directory. Everytime I set text it uses standard fallback font.
Looking at your tree file I see that you use a varFont as well located within resource. Is there a trick to get it working?

Would be a bummer if the user needs to input a path to the font file.

frederik

If you use a path in font(filePath) then the path is relative to the current directory (which is not always the the directory of the python file)

DrawBot the app set the current directory to the .py file directory. When used as module this does not happen.

So either set the a correct current directory or get a absolute path from the .py file: os.path.join(os.path.basename(__file__), "font.otf")

imik

The hint with __file__ was just what I needed and got me on the right track.
Using os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'resource', 'font.otf') within the main.py now gives me the ability to pull content from the resource directory. Perfect!

Thank you so much @frederik, as always