Recognize unicodes as well as glyph names in the glyph name field

[ryanbugden]

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Applications/RoboFont-4_4b2.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.9/vanilla/vanillaEditText.py", line 11, in controlTextDidChange_
  File "/Applications/RoboFont-4_4b2.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.9/vanilla/vanillaBase.py", line 520, in action_
  File "/Applications/RoboFont-4_4b2.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.9/ezui/items/textField.py", line 463, in _internalCallback
  File "main.py", line 342, in glyphNamesTextBoxCallback
  File "lib/fontObjects/fontPartsWrappers.pyc", line 1866, in __getitem__
KeyError: "No glyph named '1'."

[ryanbugden]

Maybe this was from a v1 copy

[colinmford]

at the moment the glyph name field only accepts glyph names, so if you want the one glyph you need to type one instead of 1... an enhancement would be to recognize unicodes as well as glyph names, perhaps

[ryanbugden]

Related: Tal wrote some code a while ago that acts as an auto-complete for glyph names. I use it for throwing a current foreground glyph into the background:
https://gist.github.com/ryanbugden/a7b946f786dce9cfd92853cdc827aeb1#file-throw_glyph_bg-py-L148

cc @typesupply

[typesupply]

Would you want this behavior built into ezui? I have wanted this...

[ryanbugden]

Would you want this behavior built into ezui? I have wanted this...

@typesupply That would be sick! Would it be like a descriptionData entry for TextField called something like autoCompleteData and take a list?

[colinmford]

@typesupply it would be very cool to have that in ezui!

[typesupply]

I've opened an issue over at ezui. I'll try to get to this after I finish drawing this 6 that refuses to be drawn. It should be pretty easy to implement. I'll probably use the name autoCompleteValues or something like that and allow a list of values [A, Aacute, ...] or a dict of display values to matched values {A:A, Aacute: Aacute, Á:Aacute, 0x00C1:Aacute, ...} so we can have more complex matching when desired.