But how would you progromatically suggest a good filename before popping up the dialog? That is what my code does.
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Sven Neumann <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 10:18 -0700, Akkana Peck wrote: > > Martin Nordholts writes: > > > IMO we should not reuse gimp_file_save() for this but instead introduce > > > gimp_show_save_dialog() and gimp_show_export_dialog(). I am a bit > > > worried however that plug-ins will abuse this power. In your case, why > > > do you need to show these dialogs? Isn't it better if the user has to > go > > > through a single place to save or export? > > > > I need to show the dialogs because the plug-in needs to save a > > file (that's the whole point of the plug-in) and it seems like > > bad UI to pop up the JPEG save dialog without ever showing the > > user where the file is being saved, or offering them a chance > > to save it somewhere else. (Have you ever been frustrated when > > Firefox downloaded a file and you can't figure out where it ended up?) > > Seems like it's always better UI to go through this step, so the > > user knows what is being saved and where. > > Then please add a sane user interface to your plug-in and pop up a > file-chooser. The PDB was designed to allow plug-ins and scripts to call > procedures in GIMP, not to pop up specific user interface elements. It > is totally not suited for this kind of usage. > > > Sven > > > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-developer mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer >
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