Re: [Gimp-user] Copy and past between GIMP and external app on Windows
Actually that problem with the Windows clipboard (on XP ) stripping the alpha channel seems vanished (maybe some recent Windows update? ) And anyway is possible that was a issue only on XP not on Vista or 7 Am I the only one using GIMP who has no such problems when copy/pasting with the clipboard? Granted generally I do it between two images opened in the GIMP to begin with, but still. I've copy/pasted text layers, layers with an alpha channel, etc with no problem what-so-ever. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] scripting
Is it in the plan to remove the scheme scripting in Gimp and go to all Python scripting? Is there much of a difference between what can be done with either? I have tried a couple of times to learn Python, but I am an old fogy and keep coming up against a wall whenever I try to get my head around the whole object oriented programming thing (yes, I know, Python can do procedural just fine...but it seems like OOP is a sort of central concept to a lot of what python is capable of..) Anybody got any good recommendations for books for learning Python? Especially ones that actually give a clear explanation of the the whole OOP thing in a Python context? I've found stuff that kind of explains things for other languages, but that doesn't help with understanding things from a Python specific point of view. I've gotten a Python for Dummies book...but...it seems I am too dumb even for that. I'd really like to get a handle on this, since Python scripts both Inkscape and Blender as well. I've been tinkering with computers for over 20 years, but my programming experience, what there is of it, is pretty much in procedural. Some Pascal (back in the 80's), various flavors of BASIC, mostly on old Atari 8-bit machines, some on Commodor64, Action --think of a cross between C and Pascal, it ran on the Atari--, and lately, Tcl/Tk (Not explicitly OOP, but it is supposedly capable of it), on Win and Linux. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] scripting
Elwin Estle wrote: #1 is Core Python Programming by Wesley Chun. He covers everything. There are gotchas in there that you'd have to program in python for years to learn, all in a nice clear, well organized, progressive, understandable format. Good reference material in the back too. Couldn't do better than this. Mark Lutz's book Learning Python from O'Reilly is pretty good. He did another python book earlier that was awful, a jillion concepts lightly touched and no organization, but this one's pretty good. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] scripting
On 30-Dec-09 10:42 AM, Elwin Estle wrote: Is it in the plan to remove the scheme scripting in Gimp and go to all Python scripting? Is there much of a difference between what can be done with either? I have tried a couple of times to learn Python, but I am an old fogy and keep coming up against a wall whenever I try to get my head around the whole object oriented programming thing (yes, I know, Python can do procedural just fine...but it seems like OOP is a sort of central concept to a lot of what python is capable of..) Anybody got any good recommendations for books for learning Python? Especially ones that actually give a clear explanation of the the whole OOP thing in a Python context? I've found stuff that kind of explains things for other languages, but that doesn't help with understanding things from a Python specific point of view. I've gotten a Python for Dummies book...but...it seems I am too dumb even for that. I'd really like to get a handle on this, since Python scripts both Inkscape and Blender as well. I've been tinkering with computers for over 20 years, but my programming experience, what there is of it, is pretty much in procedural. Some Pascal (back in the 80's), various flavors of BASIC, mostly on old Atari 8-bit machines, some on Commodor64, Action --think of a cross between C and Pascal, it ran on the Atari--, and lately, Tcl/Tk (Not explicitly OOP, but it is supposedly capable of it), on Win and Linux. I like Alex Martelli's Python in a Nutshell but, especially with the introduction with Python 3, you might prefer Mark Summerfield's Python 3. Most people are continuing to use Python 2.6 for now. Colin W. ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] gimp brushes from abr ?
I use gimp version 2.6.2. on linux, suse 11.1 I downloaded a set of free brushes [ from http://www.4shared.com/file/161649638/dc2c1b74/_2__Tree_Brushes_Set-2.html if anyone is interested ] and this gave me two files, one .abr and one .jpg I'm not sure I can recall every step I've tried, but nothing -- unzipping, extracting, etc.,-- has worked. Can someone help me figure out how to use these files as gimp brushes? Here's an error message I get: Opening '/home/helen/Tree Brushes Set-2/Tree Brushes Set # 2.abr' failed: Unknown file type Thanks for any help, Helen -- ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
Re: [Gimp-user] gimp brushes from abr ?
On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 14:56 -0500, Helen wrote: I use gimp version 2.6.2. on linux, suse 11.1 I downloaded a set of free brushes [ from http://www.4shared.com/file/161649638/dc2c1b74/_2__Tree_Brushes_Set-2.html if anyone is interested ] and this gave me two files, one .abr and one .jpg I'm not sure I can recall every step I've tried, but nothing -- unzipping, extracting, etc.,-- has worked. Can someone help me figure out how to use these files as gimp brushes? Just copy the .abr files to your GIMP brushes folder or add the path where they are stored on your disk to the GIMP brushes search path. You can lookup and edit the GIMP brushes search path in the Preferences dialog. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
[Gimp-user] Re : gimp brushes from abr ?
Just put the .abr file in your $HOME/.gimp-2.6/brushes. Relaunch gimp and it might be OK. Unfortunately, i feel that Gimp is running much slower when such brush set are loaded. It seems to me that gimp loads them all at launch time. Is there any caching that would allow to have them available but not loaded full-res until we need them ? pygmee ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
