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justinpenner / TalkingLeaves

A GlyphsApp plugin to help you explore the world’s languages and writing systems
MIT License
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ability to copy the characters in the "missing" row #6

Closed jpt closed 2 months ago

jpt commented 2 months ago

it would be useful to be able to copy those glyphs to, for example, research / look more deeply into a character / ductus / particular orthography. a workaround is for me to just add the glyphs and then copy them, but I probably want to look into it first so I would prefer not to

justinpenner commented 2 months ago

This is something I was thinking about, too. I think it would be nice to have a right-click context menu in the Languages list, which would show several functions like:

jpt commented 2 months ago

that's far more comprehensive than what I had in mind - a context menu with these options would be very useful (though I can't imagine using the CSV function, personally)

justinpenner commented 2 months ago

I was thinking some users may want to copy rows from the languages table and paste them into an app that supports tables or spreadsheets. It might make more sense to call them Copy selected rows and Copy all rows, then put them in clipboard as tab-separated values, which most spreadsheet apps should be able to handle via paste.

schriftgestalt commented 2 months ago

You should be able to make the text cell selectable and then on can pick what to copy paste.

justinpenner commented 2 months ago

You should be able to make the text cell selectable and then on can pick what to copy paste.

I tried this but Vanilla doesn't seem to have an option for it. Cells in a List2 table can be editable, but not selectable. The cells are implemented as NSTextField, which can be selectable without being editable, but I tried that, and it doesn't seem to work when it's inside a table.

I might come back to it, but I have to be careful with anything that requires hacking out of Vanilla to pyobjc, because I'm not familiar with Apple's frameworks and pyobjc is made for developers who are, so any small thing can take a long time to figure out.

For now, I'm working on the context menu I mentioned above, so that will have an option to copy the whole row to clipboard, including the missing characters.

justinpenner commented 2 months ago

Context menus are now added as of 36b7e12