Define object selection API.

[typesupply]

# list of selected objects
subObjects = obj.selection
obj.selection = [subObjects]

# boolean indicating if object is selected
isSelected = obj.selected
obj.selected = True

# will need more elaborate properties
selectedGuides = obj.selectionGuides

Need to look at how RoboFab handled this and build on that without breaking anything.

[typesupply]

This needs to be decided so that CurrentContours() CurrentPoints() etc. can be implemented.

Here's how RoboFont 3 handles it.

[typesupply]

Here’s a proposed API. The only thing that would be required for environments to implement is the object specific selected flag attribute. Everything else can be implemented generically in the base objects.

Any thoughts? cc @benkiel @typemytype

# -------------------------------
# Object Selection Flag (boolean)
# -------------------------------

state = foo.selected
foo.selected = True

The `selected` attribute is supported by:

- font
- layer
- glyph
- contour
- segment
- bPoint
- point
- component
- anchor
- image
- guideline

# ----------------------------------
# Sub-Object Selected Objects (list)
# ----------------------------------

bars = foo.selectedBars
foo.selectedBars = bars

# Font

font.selectedLayers # list of layer objects
font.selectedLayerNames # list of strings
font.selectedGlyphs # list of glyph objects
font.selectedGlyphNames # list of strings
font.selectedGuidelines # list of guideline objects
font.selection # alias for font.selectedGlyphNames, deprecated

# Layer

layer.selectedGlyphs # list of glyph objects
layer.selectedGlyphNames # list of strings

# Glyph

glyph.selectedContours # list of contour objects
glyph.selectedComponents # list of component objects
glyph.selectedAnchors # list of anchor objects
glyph.selectedGuidelines # list of guideline objects

# Contour

contour.selectedSegments # list of segment objects
contour.selectedPoints # list of point objects
contour.selectedBPoints # list of bPoint objects

# Segment

segment.selectedPoints # list of point objects

# ---------------------
# Convenience Functions
# ---------------------

CurrentLayers()
CurrentFontGuidelines()
CurrentContours()
CurrentComponents()
CurrentAnchors()
CurrentGlyphGuidelines()
CurrentSegments()
CurrentPoints()

[benkiel]

@typesupply thank you!