Re: [Gimp-developer] script fu and image file support?

2005-08-25 Thread woc
On 8/25/05, Leon Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can build PPC and PPC64 binaries. I think you'd need eitehr a real machine or a good emulator to actually thest them. I think I agree (with an added caveat that cross compiling environments are not always trivial to work with). Thanks!

Re: [Gimp-developer] script fu and image file support?

2005-08-25 Thread Leon Brooks
On Friday 26 August 2005 03:36, woc wrote: On 8/25/05, Leon Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can build PPC and PPC64 binaries. I think you'd need eitehr a real machine or a good emulator to actually thest them. I think I agree (with an added caveat that cross compiling environments are

Re: [Gimp-developer] script fu and image file support?

2005-08-24 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, woc [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can someone point me at: * gimp 2.2 load/save support for some type of file written in script-fu? Or, * a concise reference work describing the data types I'd need to deal with and their fundamental support routines? Or, * a faq which is specific to

Re: [Gimp-developer] script fu and image file support?

2005-08-24 Thread michael chang
On 8/23/05, woc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not want to write a .c plugin, because portability is more important to me than speed. Gimp itself is written in some variant of C, isn't it? The only portability issue here is that you'd need to compile it on all target OS's. No big deal --

Re: [Gimp-developer] script fu and image file support?

2005-08-24 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 15:48, michael chang wrote: On 8/23/05, woc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not want to write a .c plugin, because portability is more important to me than speed. Gimp itself is written in some variant of C, isn't it? Right. ANSI C 89' with some extensions that

Re: [Gimp-developer] script fu and image file support?

2005-08-24 Thread woc
On 8/24/05, michael chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only portability issue here is that you'd need to compile it on all target OS's. No big deal -- that's how GIMP is made anyways. Use MinGW for Windows, and Linux uses the GCC and related tools. Easy enough. Which means I'd have to mess

Re: [Gimp-developer] script fu and image file support?

2005-08-24 Thread woc
On 8/24/05, Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While Perl has many facilities for handling text very well, it does not have any limitations with handling binary data. It can easily segment such data, convert it from ASCII to binary, generate it, etc. Perl strings can contain \0 characters,

Re: [Gimp-developer] script fu and image file support?

2005-08-24 Thread Manish Singh
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 12:58:35PM -0400, woc wrote: On 8/24/05, michael chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perl probably has similar limitations, to a certain extent. Perl handles text best -- binary data, it's best at simply passing... I believe the term is ad verbatim or something. So it

Re: [Gimp-developer] script fu and image file support?

2005-08-24 Thread woc
On 8/24/05, Manish Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can use Perl or Python to write a file format plugin. Script-fu is a nonstarter, there's no way to register a load/save handler from a script (though there could be in the future). Script-fu sucks for this for other reasons, as others have

Re: [Gimp-developer] script fu and image file support?

2005-08-24 Thread Manish Singh
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 01:49:50PM -0400, woc wrote: On 8/24/05, Manish Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can use Perl or Python to write a file format plugin. Script-fu is a nonstarter, there's no way to register a load/save handler from a script (though there could be in the future).

Re: [Gimp-developer] script fu and image file support?

2005-08-24 Thread Manish Singh
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 02:34:28PM -0400, woc wrote: On 8/24/05, Manish Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, the python bindings are disted with GIMP, though not on Windows. This will change with GIMP 2.4 though. If you care about Windows, you should've said so from the beginning. ;)

Re: [Gimp-developer] script fu and image file support?

2005-08-24 Thread woc
On 8/24/05, Manish Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, and you contradicted this statement when you said that C wasn't portable enough for you. There are differing definitions of what portability means. C is definitely less portable than I'd like. Unfortunately, it looks like it's as

Re: [Gimp-developer] script fu and image file support?

2005-08-24 Thread woc
On 8/24/05, Manish Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, the python bindings are disted with GIMP, though not on Windows. This will change with GIMP 2.4 though. If you care about Windows, you should've said so from the beginning. ;) You're basically stuck with C for 2.2, script-fu won't cut

Re: [Gimp-developer] script fu and image file support?

2005-08-24 Thread michael chang
On 8/24/05, woc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/24/05, Manish Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, and you contradicted this statement when you said that C wasn't portable enough for you. There are differing definitions of what portability means. C is definitely less portable than I'd

Re: [Gimp-developer] script fu and image file support?

2005-08-24 Thread woc
On 8/24/05, michael chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I presume you mean this in the sense that you'd want to write it and distribute it as-is for your users in this cases? Yep -- plain text is ideal, but I can deal with other formats if I have to. If you want, you can always cross compile for

Re: [Gimp-developer] script fu and image file support?

2005-08-24 Thread Leon Brooks
On Thursday 25 August 2005 00:58, woc wrote: I'd have to mess around with getting access to the right development environment every time I needed to make a change. (And I do anticipate needing to make changes.) Shouldn't be a big issue. For MS-Windows, go to CygWin.com and click on the

Re: [Gimp-developer] script fu and image file support?

2005-08-24 Thread Michael Schumacher
woc wrote: On 8/24/05, michael chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only portability issue here is that you'd need to compile it on all target OS's. No big deal -- that's how GIMP is made anyways. Use MinGW for Windows, and Linux uses the GCC and related tools. Easy enough. Which means

Re: [Gimp-developer] script fu and image file support?

2005-08-24 Thread woc
On 8/24/05, Michael Schumacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you make sure that GCC can build it, use stuff that'savailable on any platform (Hint: make heavy use of glib functions), make the plug-in available at http://registry.gimp.org and announce new releases on the gimp mailinglists, you

[Gimp-developer] script fu and image file support?

2005-08-23 Thread woc
(This is a nearly verbatim copy of a message I sent to gimp-user. After posting it, I belatedly realized that this is probably more of a developer question than a user question. Or, if not, just ignore me and I'll go on and bug other people.) I want to write gimp support for an obscure file