Recording a GIMP Script
Thanks a lot to Steiner for his reply!
While a "reverse PDB" might be nice, as an initial attempt could we get by
with something much simpler and more hardcoded that would only address
Script-Fu for example? In saying that, please take into account that I'm
just getting started as a gimp developer, and really don't have a very good
idea yet of just exactly what the PDB is all about. But I'd hate to see a
good idea go out the window just because we wanted to shoot for the moon and
make things much more complex than is really necessary for a preliminary
implementation.
Unfortunately, I don't have enough gimp knowledge yet to have a feel for
what it would take to convert interactive actions in gimp to the
corresponding Script-Fu statements.
s/KAM
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steinar H. Gunderson"
To: "gimp developers"
Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 7:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] Recording a GIMP Script
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 06:56:35PM -0500, Kevin Myers wrote:
Has anyone given any consideration to implementing a feature in GIMP
that
would allow a user to create a script by recording their interactive
actions? Something like that would go a long way towards helping folks
get
off the ground with the development of new scripts much more quickly, by
providing some initial boilerplate that is close to what they need and
could
be much more easily modified to produce the desired result than by
starting
to write a script completely from scratch.
It was discussed here some while ago -- somebody suggested that the best
thing to do would be a `reverse PDB' of some sort, where one could
interface
to different back-ends (ie. for Perl-Fu, Script-Fu, some XML language
etc.).
As far as I know, no work has been done on it after the discussion died at
that time.
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