Re: [ANNOUNCE] GimpMill - A Sawmill Theme Tool
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 07:25:30AM -0500, Kelly Lynn Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A convenient user-accessible parasite editor would make this sort of > thing MUCH friendlier -- instead of having to use magic cookie layer > names you'd just click on a button on the layer dialog and edit the > layer's externally-defined properties What do you have in mind? The current parasite-editor suffers from (among other problems) the lack of standardization. Nobody (I mean it ;) uses the gserialize feature, for example (which has problems of its own), so the only options are string and hex-editing at the moment. (Although I prefer human-readable parasites over difficult-to-prase gserialize for impossible to parse ad-hoc binary formats). There is also the problem of non-persistant parasites. Is it worth the effort to use a "portable" format for these kind of parasites? In theory the plug-ins that generate them should be able to edit them much better then a parasite-editor. (But I am sure plug-ins will be able to add themselves to the layers&channels menu in 1.2 or so, making it possible to add the parasite-editor (or a parasite editor) there). -- -==- | ==-- _ | ---==---(_)__ __ __ Marc Lehmann +-- --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] |e| -=/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ XX11-RIPE --+ The choice of a GNU generation | |
Re: [ANNOUNCE] GimpMill - A Sawmill Theme Tool
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 07:25:30AM -0500, Kelly Lynn Martin wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jan 2000 00:55:10 +0800, Ian McKellar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >For each of the frame parts create a separate layer in the way > >described above, but call each of these "PART: name" where name will > >be used in the image name. To set frame part attributes append "name > >= value" pairs to the frame part's layer's name (e.g. "PART: > >closebutton class=close-button"). Finally to specify the difference > >between the default frame decoration and the focussed, mouseover, etc > >decoration you can optionally create layers called NORMAL, FOCUSED, > >HIGHLIGHTED and CLICKED. These are merged with frame part layers > >before they're saved. Often a black layer with 50% opacity in > >"Multiply" mode will be what you're after, but if nececarry you can > >provide complete replacement images. > > A convenient user-accessible parasite editor would make this sort of > thing MUCH friendlier -- instead of having to use magic cookie layer > names you'd just click on a button on the layer dialog and edit the > layer's externally-defined properties > I'm going to try to implement this tonight. I was going to write a user-accessible cryptic-cookie-layer-name editor, but parasites are the Right Way I guess. I'll also fix that problem whereby the plugin doesn't actually work at all :) Ian -- Ian McKellar | Email: yakk(a)yakk.net | Web: http://www.yakk.net/ Fax: +61 (8) 9265 0821 / +0 (775) 205 0307 | Home: +61 (8) 9389 9152 If God didn't want us to eat animals, he wouldn't have made them out of meat.
Re: [ANNOUNCE] GimpMill - A Sawmill Theme Tool
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000 00:55:10 +0800, Ian McKellar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >For each of the frame parts create a separate layer in the way >described above, but call each of these "PART: name" where name will >be used in the image name. To set frame part attributes append "name >= value" pairs to the frame part's layer's name (e.g. "PART: >closebutton class=close-button"). Finally to specify the difference >between the default frame decoration and the focussed, mouseover, etc >decoration you can optionally create layers called NORMAL, FOCUSED, >HIGHLIGHTED and CLICKED. These are merged with frame part layers >before they're saved. Often a black layer with 50% opacity in >"Multiply" mode will be what you're after, but if nececarry you can >provide complete replacement images. A convenient user-accessible parasite editor would make this sort of thing MUCH friendlier -- instead of having to use magic cookie layer names you'd just click on a button on the layer dialog and edit the layer's externally-defined properties Kelly
