Well I am glad to hear that it is relatively easy but unfortunately I haven't gotten into scripting with gimp at all... Although, this is definitely going to push me to learn it so I can get this feature ( and various other reasons ). But, as a feature, I still think it would be a helpful add especially for web developers to have a button that just creates a linked layer for them quickly and easily.
Thanks for your response and I am already looking at sites w/ tutorials and reading up on this... I know several programming languages, so I am hoping that will help me out while learning this scripting language >,<. On 6/13/09, Rob Antonishen <rob.antonis...@gmail.com> wrote: > Not sure I understand your desired workflow. You say when you "change > an image" the layer updates. How do you change an image? Outside > gimp? It would be very possible to script some of this... For > example, if the layer name were the full path to an image, a script > command to "reload the layer" would be fairly trivial. > > Possibly modifying the "load image as layers" to store the full path > as a layer parasite so a "reload image layers" command could be > implemented easily. > > -Rob A> > > On 6/13/09, kevin <fmw...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I have been using GIMP for a few months now and there is a feature that >> I have wanted to have and think about every time I open up GIMP. >> >> The feature is mainly for the possibility of having "templates". The >> idea is that you can place a layer that is a link to a certain image, so >> you can have 9 layers on top of each other and each one being an image. >> The idea is that you no longer have to "Load image as layer" every time >> you change an image because the layer would be the image and would >> update itself. >> >> To give an example, let's say you have a template with different images >> being buttons, menus and background/foreground. You have a window open >> with all the different linked layers positioned to be how you want it on >> your site or final look. Now, when you change one of the images, you can >> see what the result will look like from looking at the window with the >> template. Benefit being speed ( you don't have to look for the file or >> any of the tedious crap ) and ease which are two things I like to think >> GIMP excels over all competitors with. >> >> As far as the "linked layer" updating itself, that could be either >> automatic when file changes or you could have a button that auto-updates >> all layers. GIMP is pretty well written and fast, so I think it being >> automatic would be fast enough... >> >> -- I am new to mailing lists and I am not sure which mailing list I >> should send a feature request to but this one said to talk about the >> source code so I decided this one!! ( Hopefully I did everything right? >> >,< -- >> _______________________________________________ >> Gimp-developer mailing list >> Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU >> https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer >> >> _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
