Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP won't quit

2011-03-05 Thread Sven Neumann
On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 16:42 +, jcup...@gmail.com wrote: On 1 March 2011 05:00, Roger Penn roger.p...@gmail.com wrote: work out all the how's and so-forth, but for now if anyone knows the inner workings of gimp-quit or why calling gimp.exe from the command line forks two gimp processes

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP won't quit

2011-03-02 Thread Graeme Gill
jcup...@gmail.com wrote: As a result of this strange design, it's impossible on Windows to write a .exe that can be used smoothly both from the command-line and from the desktop. I've written a couple of applications that run from the command line and happily throw up windows and interact with

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP won't quit

2011-03-02 Thread jcupitt
On 2 March 2011 12:52, Graeme Gill grae...@argyllcms.com wrote: jcup...@gmail.com wrote: As a result of this strange design, it's impossible on Windows to write a .exe that can be used smoothly both from the command-line and from the desktop. I've written a couple of applications that run

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP won't quit

2011-03-02 Thread Graeme Gill
jcup...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, but if they are tagged as CLI .exes (which they will be if you can run them from the command-line and the CLI blocks until they exit) when you run them from the Windows shell by double-clicking an icon you will get an annoying extra console window linked to

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP won't quit

2011-03-01 Thread jcupitt
On 1 March 2011 05:00, Roger Penn roger.p...@gmail.com wrote: work out all the how's and so-forth, but for now if anyone knows the inner workings of gimp-quit or why calling gimp.exe from the command line forks two gimp processes I'd sure be grateful for some insight. Thanks. I might be able

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP won't quit

2011-03-01 Thread jcupitt
On 1 March 2011 16:42, jcup...@gmail.com wrote: So it sounds to me, though I've not checked and this is just a guess, that the Windows wrapper .exe is not terminating correctly in the new gimp. Also, this is from memory of looking into this a few years ago, I've probably messed up the

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP won't quit

2011-03-01 Thread Kevin Cozens
jcup...@gmail.com wrote: I might be able to help a little on the forks-two-processes thing. My app does this as well, because Windows distinguishes between command-line and GUI .exes. Could you have Windows start GIMP as a GUI program but pass -i to GIMP to stop it from opening up its

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP won't quit

2011-03-01 Thread Roger Penn
Your mention of a wrapper made me wonder, what? where? I don't believe there was any such thing in the GIMP 2.0. So I looked in the bin directory and lo and behold! gimp-console-2.6.exe. Apparently now there are separate executables for GUI and console use. Either there weren't before, or the

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP won't quit

2011-02-28 Thread Roger Penn
Thanks for the suggestion. It sounds like that is the best solution. However, not being a programmer myself and not even having the python script they mention (running on Windoze we just download the pre-compiled binaries) I wouldn't have the first clue how to implement a script-fu server in the

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP won't quit

2011-02-27 Thread Sven Neumann
On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 01:27 +0200, Aurimas Juška wrote: Hi, On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 12:15 AM, Roger Penn roger.p...@gmail.com wrote: I'm using the GIMP to create custom graphics on the fly for a CMS by calling the script from the web page through ASP.NET. For what you want to do,

[Gimp-developer] GIMP won't quit

2011-02-26 Thread Roger Penn
Hey all, I know this is more of a user question, but I don't think I'm going to find anyone that's going to be able to answer it other than here. I'm using the GIMP to create custom graphics on the fly for a CMS by calling the script from the web page through ASP.NET. Now, I wouldn't blame

Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP won't quit

2011-02-26 Thread Aurimas Juška
Hi, On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 12:15 AM, Roger Penn roger.p...@gmail.com wrote: I'm using the GIMP to create custom graphics on the fly for a CMS by calling the script from the web page through ASP.NET. For what you want to do, Script-fu server should be the best option. See