Jeremy; Would you be kind enough to post an example of a typical print output Lua script. Real life examples are always helpful when getting started.
David On 13-06-19 06:42 AM, jeremy rosen wrote: > On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Pascal Obry <pas...@obry.net> wrote: > >> Jeremy, >> >>> huh ??? >> We can probably avoid that! >> >> > sorry, that was an expression of suprise not meant to offend in any way > > >> > can already be done with lua... >>> more precisely that's the whole point of lua. If lua doesn't satisfy >>> your need for that sort of use cases, please tell me what's missing so I >>> can add it >> Great! How do I start then? I have zero experience with Lua and zero >> knowledge about the way it is integrated into darktable. Any >> documentation to start reading? >> >> > I had sent a mail on the subject that might be a bit more complete that > what i'll write below, but to give a quick summary > > an introduction to the DT specific lua is here : > > http://darktable.org/redmine/projects/darktable/wiki/LuaUsage > > the complete darktable/lua API is documented here : > > http://darktable.org/redmine/projects/darktable/wiki/LuaAPI > > and a simple example script is here > > http://darktable.org/redmine/projects/darktable/wiki/LuaScripts > > > >> Also, I think this is a really standard feature. Do we have a way to >> share such Lua script? >> >> > for the moment I would like to collect them in the wiki page above so I can > review them. The lua API is brand-new and I want to see how people use it > to check if any tweak/simplification is needed. > > And to answer Steven's question, yes. A round trip is possible, though the > example above doesn't do it. > > hal_from_2001 has been working on such a script to do a loop through enfuse > (iirc) and reimport the result > > > > >> Anyway, looking forward to it... >> >>> 2. A way to keep a photo in a cache locally and be able to edit it >> even >>> when the master picture is not present (on an external drive not >>> connected). >>> >>> This is a new feature of Lr5 and I had this needs long ago, >> probably >>> a nice new feature that I could try to implement. >>> >>> If I come to it, I'll discuss the UI part before of course. I >> have no >>> idea how to integrate this nicely at the moment. >>> >>> >>> hmm interesting. Again it would not be stupid to implement this using >>> the lua backend, but unless the previous feature it's not possible to do >>> that in lua right away. It needs some thought into the design. >> Would be nice indeed if again it can be done in Lua. I understand that >> it is the preferred way to extend darktable. >> >> > it's the prefered way to do complicated customisations for your own need, > not to extend DT in general. This is of course a grey area. > > If a feature is needed by everybody it should be in core > > If a feature is only usefull for a particular workflow then it should be > written in lua > > > Feel free to ask me any lua question and/or post your scripts for help. Few > people have started doing that but i'd really like to have more example > scripts before the next release... > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: > > Build for Windows Store. > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev > > > _______________________________________________ > darktable-devel mailing list > darktable-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ darktable-devel mailing list darktable-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-devel
