On 16.12.2006 12:22, David Gowers wrote:
Hi,
Is there some way of convincing GIMP to send warning/error/informative
messages to a useful place on Win32? I have some PyGimp plugins, written
for Linux GIMP, that either fail to register their procedures or do not run
properly when I install them on the Win32 platform. Debugging 'blind'
helped me to fix the plugins that would register OK but crash when running, but in
order to fix the remainder of them, I need the messages like I get on
Linux, since that is where the tracebacks show up when a plugin crashes.
The obvious '-c' parameter given in the man page has no effect, and the
various documentation on the Windows version doesn't have anything
relevant.
My gimp build, when asked for the obvious (built-in) documenation, gives
D:\graph\gimp-2.3.13\bin>gimp --help
Usage:
gimp [OPTION...] [FILE|URI...]
Help Options:
-?, --help Show help options
--help-all Show all help options
--help-gtk Show GTK+ Options
Application Options:
-v, --version Show version information and exit
--license Show license information and exit
--verbose Be more verbose
-i, --no-interface Run without a user interface
-d, --no-data Do not load brushes, gradients, patterns, ...
-f, --no-fonts Do not load any fonts
-s, --no-splash Do not show a startup window
--no-shm Do not use shared memory between GIMP and
plugi
ns
--no-cpu-accel Do not use special CPU acceleration functions
--session= Use an alternate sessionrc file
--gimprc= Use an alternate user gimprc file
--system-gimprc= Use an alternate system gimprc file
-b, --batch= Batch command to run (can be used multiple
time
s)
--batch-interpreter= The procedure to process batch commands with
--console-messages Send messages to console instead of using
a dialog
--pdb-compat-mode= PDB compatibility mode (off|on|warn)
--stack-trace-mode= Debug in case of a crash (never|query|always)
--debug-handlers Enable non-fatal debugging signal handlers
--g-fatal-warnings Make all warnings fatal
--dump-gimprc Output a gimprc file with default settings
--display=DISPLAY X display to use
When started with "gimp --console-messages" the console window remains open
and the redirection works as expected. The shortcut "-c" (for console
messages?) seems to be not implemented, at least not in gimp/app/main.c
where the other command line parameters are declared.
Beware though, that this kind of redirection requires gimp to be build as a
"console application" rather than a "windows application". I don't know if
the 'official' build of gimp for windoze still is.
If you are only interested in the registration process (and don't need a
graphical interface) you also can try to run "gimp-console" rather than
"gimp". The plug-in intialization process is supposed to be the same.
Hans
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Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to
get along without it. -- Dilbert
