On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 07:20:39PM +0800, Kenny Law wrote:

Then I try to run it by entering Gimp, and starting the Perl Server by going to Xtns->Perl->Server

Nothing seems to come up at all, so I went ahead and typed ./whatever.pl

the perl server only outputs some text on the console (or whatever is connected to the stdout of your gimp process). not seeing anything is, therefore, not a bad sign ;)

Thing is, I did not save the pl file to the usr/lib/gimp/1.2/plug-ins directory.

that's ok.

Is that gonna affect anything?

Not that I'd know.

Can someone tell me an easy way to test my scripts without registering a script? Or do I need to register it because my script deals directly on an image?

If you want your script to show up in the menus, yes, you need to copy it to a plug-ins directory.

If you just start it, it should open a dialog. If it is an -type plug-in it should enable you to select the image and layer to work on (but that is not heavily tested).

I assume nothing like this happens in your case?

On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Kenny Law wrote:

First of all, just wanna thank you guys especially Chris, Branko, Marc and Dov for answering some of my questions the past 2 days. Your help is greatly appreciated.

Anyway, my question regards the gimp_pencil tool. One of its parameters is an array of floats. I tried to pass in this by doing

//just imagine all variables contain integers #1.

@positions = (0, $startPos, $width, $startPos); gimp_pencil($layer, 4, @positions );

That should be:

gimp_pencil($layer, 4, \@positions);

#2.

gimp_pencil($layer, 4, (0, $startPos, $width, $startPos) );

That should be:

gimp_pencil($layer, 4, [0, $startPos, $width, $startPos]);

You need to pass a reference to an array. In both cases you passed the array itself as multiple arguments to the functions. For more information consult "perldoc perlref".

Regards,

Shlomi Fish

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On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 10:54:25AM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote:

gimp_pencil($layer, 4, @positions );

gimp_pencil($layer, 4, \@positions);

To add, arrays are always passed _into_ the gimp as references [...]. Functions returning a single array return a list, e.g.

my @images = Gimp->list_images; # or so, foggy

And functions returning an array and something else return an arrayref. There is no general rule, but if you do this:

Gimp::set_trace(-1);

(you can pass in flags like TRACE_CALL etc.. instead of -1, see perldoc Gimp), you will see what, exactly, will be passed to the pdb function. That's very handy when debugging scripts.