Thanks for your help and the quick response.  Your version looks
promising.  However, it doesn't seem to respect the PYTHONPATH set in my
~/.profile file.  So, it cannot find my personal Python files.  Where
should I set the PYTHONPATH for your version?

Thanks again,

Ryan


On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Partha Bagchi <[email protected]> wrote:

> Try my version and let me know if you have issues: www.partha.com
>
> Partha
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Ryan Krauss <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I have recently switched from Ubuntu to Mac and am having some trouble
>> getting GIMP working the way I need.  I use pygimp and a Wacom tablet to
>> create a sort of digital white board when I teach.  I use my pygimp code to
>> correctly number each slide as I lecture so that the slides are useful to
>> the students for review when I am done.  Here is an example if you are
>> curious:
>>
>> http://www.cs.siue.edu/~rkrauss/450/2013/lectures/03_22_13/index.html
>>
>> I am using Python 2.7 for scipy, numpy, and other packages installed
>> using homebrew and pip.  I am having a hard time getting GIMP installed in
>> OS X 10.8 that supports both Python 2.7 and pressure sensitivity.  I have
>> tried two approaches.  I downloaded a binary from here:
>> Download GIMP 2.8 <http://gimp.lisanet.de/Website/Download.html> on the
>> gimp.org/downloads page.  It runs natively on OS X (i.e. not using X11)
>> and it works perfectly with pressure sensitivity on my Wacom tablet.  The
>> only problem is that it seems to ship with Python 2.6, which is a bit dated
>> and not compatible with my other Python packages.
>>
>> I also tried to build and install from source.  I have tried this two
>> ways.  The first was through homebrew.  I am able to compile correctly and
>> it uses Python 2.7, but for reasons I don't understand, it seems to build
>> an X11 version.  Again for reasons I don't understand, pressure sensitivity
>> does not work when I build this way.  The pen and tablet under the extended
>> input configuration are greyed out. They are set correctly, but the
>> settings don't seem to be respected.
>>
>> I have also tried to just use homebrew to install the dependencies and
>> then build GIMP myself in other directory.  This keeps getting hung up on
>> trying to build a test GTK+ file that fails because it can't find gtk.h.
>>  gtk.h is in a homebrew Cellar folder and I don't seem to be able to point
>> the configure script to it correctly.
>>
>> So, can someone point me to the best solution.  If a binary of GIMP 2.8
>> linked to Python 2.7 could easily be made available, that would be great.
>>  If someone can help me build a version of GIMP 2.8 that runs natively
>> using the Python from homebrew, that would also work.  I don't even mind
>> setting up my own thing and compiling outside of homebrew, but I would
>> prefer to avoid installing all the dependencies myself if possible.  I
>> would prefer to have GIMP run natively rather than through X11, but if
>> Python 2.7 and pressure sensitivity both worked, I would be OK with that.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Ryan
>>
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