Typist reset() doesn't re-calculate macros (and refresh from typist.get_text_element() doesn't exist)

[iflam]

Hi! First of all, thanks for making Scribble. It's amazing!

I noticed that when I call typist.reset(), it resets without re-calculating macros. I also tried

element = typist.get_text_element();
element.refresh();

but this actually just crashed telling me that <>.refresh() isn't a function, so not entirely sure what's up with that.

For my case, I have a textbox that will have multiple "choice words" you can select, and during that selection phase I need to be able to update my macro'd words/fonts.

scribble_refresh_everything works to fix this issue, but that doesn't seem like the best solution in this case.

Maybe i'm just missing something?

Using 8.7 on runtime 22.11.1.75

Thank you!

[JujuAdams]

Bug here is that get_text_element() is returning a weak reference. If you use typist.get_text_element().ref this'll then work as expected.

...probably. Unless, of course, the text element has been cleared up then we've got a problem so you'll need to run weak_ref_alive() on what .get_text_element() returns.

At any rate, I will make a patch for .get_text_element() that returns the actual text element, or undefined if the reference is dead.

[iflam]

Ah, so after I posted this issue, I went and did some debugging into what your code does and I did indeed find references to the element.ref.refresh(), however that didn't work either.

...What I did find I can do is since I'm wrapping my text elements in scribble and then calling the .draw(,,typist), I found a way to reference that original which is the non-weak reference.

Still, would be a nice little help if the .get_text_element() did as you wrote above :)

Typist is a w e s o m e :D

[JujuAdams]

https://github.com/JujuAdams/Scribble/commit/b7e7f548ab5f101532b9efba395c982970999cfd