On Monday 08 October 2007 18:57:07 Sven Neumann wrote:

Hi,

On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 09:27 +0200, Marcus Heese wrote:

I've written a small patch based on the gimp-2.4.0-rc2 sources which implements a new gimp-text-fontname and gimp-text-get-extents-fontname function for the PDB. In fact, I wrote this because I needed the possibilities of adjusting letter/line spacing and indentation as well as the possibilities of directly getting access to hinting and auto-hinting in my gimp-ruby-scripts.

As I'm totally new to gimp development I don't really know if this was the right place to implement, so I just wrote two new functions "gimp-text-fontname-new" and "gimp-text-get-extents-fontname-new" and put them just in the same files where I found the other old equivalent functions. I hope my C knowledge wasn't that bad, but as gimp sources were really well arranged, it didn't take me too long to get used to the syntax.

Unfortunately it seems that you missed the comment at the top of the file you edited. It informs you that this file is generated code. You could have saved yourself a lot of work by editing the corresponding .pdb file instead.

Unfortunately it seems that you must be right :) ... Though it was not that much work and for me it's working.

We are in need for an updated text-tool PDB API but I would really like to get it right this time instead of adding more kludges. There's a bug report for this and it would be very nice if we could get some help with it. Perhaps then we can get such an API for GIMP 2.6:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164539

Alright I see... I would like to help for GIMP 2.6 to get a real good implementation of the text-tool PDB API. So I declare myself a volunteer for this task.

However, is there a possibility to "add" another kludge to GIMP 2.4.x? My scripts won't work without a possibility of letter spacing and I don't like the idea of compiling always a new GIMP 2.4.x version with each update on every machine the scripts should work...

regards Marcus