Drawbot no longer working after upgrading to Catalina

JTDType · 9 Oct 2019, 04:30

I have installed drawbot as both a module and as a standalone app (as I did in the previous OS) but now neither seem to be working. I’ve done a clean install of python (3.7.4) and both drawbots and am getting a string of errors that seem to show up whenever a text() is used.

Here’s an example of some of it (I can paste it all if that would be helpful:

File "drawBot/drawBotDrawingTools.pyc", line 1623, in text
  File "drawBot/drawBotDrawingTools.pyc", line 1785, in textBox
  File "drawBot/context/baseContext.pyc", line 2351, in clippedText
  File "drawBot/context/baseContext.pyc", line 1203, in __getitem__
  File "drawBot/context/baseContext.pyc", line 930, in __init__
  File "drawBot/context/baseContext.pyc", line 938, in _setAttribute
  File "drawBot/context/baseContext.pyc", line 1377, in openTypeFeatures
  File "drawBot/context/baseContext.pyc", line 1391, in listOpenTypeFeatures
  File "drawBot/misc.pyc", line 362, in wrapper
  File "drawBot/context/tools/openType.pyc", line 509, in getFeatureTagsForFontName
  File "drawBot/context/tools/openType.pyc", line 495, in getFeatureTagsForDescriptions
  File "objc/_convenience_mapping.pyc", line 18, in __getitem__objectForKey_
  File "objc/_convenience.pyc", line 101, in container_unwrap
KeyError: 'CTFeatureSelectorIdentifier'

frederik · 9 Oct 2019, 07:04

CTFeatureSelectorIdentifier is not available anymore on 10.15, let me check

frederik · 9 Oct 2019, 09:22

follow up here https://github.com/typemytype/drawbot/pull/307

frederik · 9 Oct 2019, 13:04

get a pre-release version here http://static.typemytype.com/drawBot/DrawBot10.15.dmg

see the pull request on github to see the changes and follow up the discussion

JTDType · 9 Oct 2019, 13:48

Great—thank you so much!

JTDType · 12 Oct 2019, 03:01

Any chance the Robofont Extension will be updated as well?

RMFRT · 26 Oct 2019, 14:30

@frederik I installed the pre-release version but some (OpenType) features don’t seem to work.

I did a test with this basic script:

I have the following error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<untitled>", line 9, in <module>
  File "drawBot/context/baseContext.pyc", line 1772, in appendGlyph
AttributeError: module 'drawBot.context.tools.openType' has no attribute 'featureMap'

And of course it worked perfectly few days ago on my office computer (not upgraded to Catalina).

Thanks!

frederik · 26 Oct 2019, 17:21

This has been fixed upstream. Will try to built a fresh release after the weekend