Show Mouse Coordinates keeps firing "draw event"

[impallari]

The ShowMouseCoordinates plugin activates the "draw" event with all mouse movements. This conflicts with other plugins using observers, since the event keeps firing up like crazy.

[FontBureau]

Hi Pablo, Sorry for my ignorance: you are saying ShowMouseCoordinates calls the draw event even though there is no draw() or drawInactive() method?

What other plugin is giving you the conflict? I'm able to run this fine alongside OverlayUFOs, for example, without a major impact on performance.

Do you know of a way to have observers for mouseMoved, mouseDragged, etc. without calling the draw event?

[impallari]

Hi, I'm not sure I can describe the issue with my basic auto-translated English. Let's try with a quick screen cast:

http://quick.as/y0nlhaqg ShowMouseCoordinates is OFF: Note that the draw event is only detected when it makes sense. For example when you select some nodes, or when you moves nodes around.

http://quick.as/gqvyiwbj ShowMouseCoordinates is ON: Now, note that the draw event keeps firing up like crazy with every mouse movement, even outside the glyph windows. This makes no sense, and makes the code attached to the draw observer to keep looping for ever.

I'm using a custom script here, but the same will happen to any other plugin that observes the draw event and attaches code to it.

[FontBureau]

Yes, I see the issue, thanks. I will ask Frederik if there is a way to update the text field with mouse coordinates without calling the draw event.

[typemytype]

nice script!

it happens that the added view also sends draw instructions to the underlaying views (like the glyph view)

I guess the best thing is to wait a bit until the next public update and add the view to the toolbar while opening a glyph window.

a small preview what could be done:

thanks