Point().selected

[BlackFoundry]

Wouldn't it be nice / meaningful to have a (bool) flag to specify whether a Point is selected? I think that is one thing that is missing to directly make a simple UI on top of the UFO format. Might be useful to store the selection state of an object too (?)

[madig]

I'm still not so sure this maps nicely to the format, as the current flags for a point contribute to its interpretation, whereas a selected property is purely UI state.

Maybe you can find a way to use a glyph's lib dict to store the information? Something like, on selection, you assign an identifier to a point unless it already exists and use a lib key in the glyph like com.black-foundry.trufont.selectedPoints to hold a set of identifiers. A selected() property would do return self.identifier in glyph.lib["com.black-foundry.trufont.selectedPoints"] or something. You'd have to subclass Point of course.

[typesupply]

We will be adding a lib-like place to store interface data such as this as a public location in the data directory soon. See #121.