Followup re Akkana's script: a minor niggle ...
I had created this environment variable:
GIMP2_DIRECTORY=D:\Data files\gimp-2.x_resourc...@gimp_settings_all_versions
Your script is creating the patterns in that location in subfolder +
patterns ie.
D:\Data files\gimp-2.x_resourc...@gimp_settings_all_versions\patterns
but I had not changed Preferences-File folders-Patterns to point
explicitly to that location.
ie the gimprc file which gets used by GIMP at startup:
D:\Data files\gimp-2.x_resourc...@gimp_settings_all_versions\gimprc
includes these lines:
* (pattern-path "D:\\Data
Files\\Gimp-2.x_resources\\patterns;C:\\Documents and
Settings\\Alec\\.gimp-2.6\\patterns;D:\\Program
Files\\GIMP-2.0\\GIMP2.6.6\\share\\gimp\\2.0\\patterns")
* (pattern-path-writable "D:\\Data
Files\\Gimp-2.x_resources\\patterns;C:\\Documents and
Settings\\Alec\\.gimp-2.6\\patterns")
The point is that in your script you concatenate "/patterns" to contents
of GIMP2_DIRECTORY with (I think) the line
(path (string-append gimp-directory "/patterns/")) but in fact that
location does *NOT* automatically get used by GIMP-internals to find
location of patterns.
Note that in the gimprc extract above (originally created by the
installer I guess) it still points to: C:\\Documents and
Settings\\Alec\\.gimp-2.6\\patterns which for MOST users who have not
set GIMP2_DIRECTORY would be where (path (string-append gimp-directory
"/patterns/")) points.
I'm not sure whether there is a way for script-fu to get the contents of
the gimprc(?) - technically I think it "ought" to offer the user a
chance to select in which of the "authorized" writable folders (or
possibly in a user specified sub-folder thereof) it will create the
patterns.
Alec Burgess (bura...@gmail.com) wrote (in part) (on 2009-06-03 at
22:15):
> I'd especially like
> to hear whether it works on Windows, since it builds up paths with
> "/" (which I think script-fu is supposed to translate
automatically).
The location is correctly created for me - GOOD!
I think some way for user to specify a tag will for all patterns
created will be useful after 2.7 gets released maybe this can be
re-visited then? (If you want to avoid requiring any user interaction
perhaps the file name?)
Note: so that I can keep track of where my "special" patterns came
from and so that all resources can be shared with all installed
versions of GIMP I've been putting them in sub-folders of
...\patterns.
ie. in Preferences-folders-patterns I've added:
D:\Data Files\Gimp-2.x_resources\patterns
and as subfolders of that:
D:\Data Files\Gimp-2.x_resources\patterns\added_manually (a
couple I created manually)
D:\Data Files\Gimp-2.x_resources\patterns\ademmm.deviantart
(from the PS PAT file via Akkana's script 162 *.pat files)
D:\Data Files\Gimp-2.x_resources\patterns\squidfingers (from
the
PS PAT file via Akkana's script 109 *.pat files)
--
Regards ... Alec (bura...@gmail & WinLiveMess - alec.m.burg...@skype)
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