Hello together,

so for now I've finished my work on the new implementation of the text layer in the PDB api.

The most actualized version can always be downloaded from here: http://www.cip.ifi.lmu.de/~heese/text_layer.pdb

All my tests have been made with gimp-2.4.5 and the "Irb console" from gimp-ruby. So far as I have tested I didn't run into any further problems except that I couldn't work any further with a well-returned Vectors-object from my gimp-vectors-from-text-layer() function. Here is an example output from that specific problem:

Interactive Gimp-Ruby Console Ruby version 1.8.6

irb(main):001:0> image = Image.new(600,600,RGB_IMAGE) => #
irb(main):002:0> tl = gimp_text_layer_new(image,"haha", Context.get_font(),10,10,100,0)
=> #
irb(main):003:0> image.add_layer(tl,-1) => nil
irb(main):004:0> display = Display.new(image) => #
irb(main):006:0> vectors = gimp_vectors_from_text_layer(image,tl) => #
irb(main):007:0> image.add_vectors(vectors,-1) TypeError: Bad Argument: #A PATH cannot be created from a Gimp::Vectors from /opt/gimp-2.4/lib/gimp/2.0/ruby/pdb.rb:90:in `convert_args' from /opt/gimp-2.4/lib/gimp/2.0/ruby/pdb.rb:113:in `call' from (eval):3:in `add_vectors'
from (irb):7

Also I want to extend the gimp-text-layer-get-coordinates() function. I've written into the HELP text what I think what should be extended.

For a correct compile I needed to add PANGOFT2 cflags into the includes in the Makefile in the "app/pdb" directory. Anything else should work out of the box!

Anyway, I hope the code I've written can be useful for gimp-2.6!

best regards Marcus