Hi,

On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 14:07 +0200, Kristian Rink wrote:

... which obviously doesn't work again as the /Python-Fu menu is gone and I fail to relocate the menu entry elsewhere, no matter what I enter as menu path (/Filters/Python/... failed...). What to do here? Is there some pointer outlining how to deal with python scripts in Gimp 2.4?

Are you sure that you have the GIMP Python extension installed at all?

Sven

Hi,

On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 21:43 +0200, Kristian Rink wrote:

- The package seems to be installed in the appropriate version matching my Gimp:

kr@kassiopeia:~ > dpkg -l|grep gimp-python ii gimp-python 2.4.6-1ubuntu1~hardy1 Python support and plugins for GIMP

It should just work then. python-fu in GIMP 2.4 introduced a slightly changed syntax for registering python scripts, but the API was kept backward-compatible, so your old scripts should just continue to work.

Sven

On Tuesday 26 August 2008, Kristian Rink wrote:

Folks;

dealing with python-fu quite a while ago (early gimp 2.2, I guess), I haven't dealt with this for quite a while, just to stumble across it once again by now, figuring out a few things obviously changed:

- Initially, I used to write up a script, dump it to .gimp/plug-ins, start the Gimp and find its procedures using the gimp Procedure Browser searching for "python-fu". It's not the case anymore now, despite the file being still in .gimp-2.4/plug-ins/ and being marked executable and the code structure not having changed.

- Likewise, I used something like this to register the script with The Gimp:

register(
”python_fu_mergesofned”,
”merge picture with a blurred version of itself”, ”merge picture with a blurred version of itself”, ”Kristian Rink”,
”Kristian Rink”,

”2005?, ”/Python-Fu/z428/LayeredSoftness”, ”RGB*,GRAY*”,
[],
[],

mergesofned)

... which obviously doesn't work again as the /Python-Fu menu is gone and I fail to relocate the menu entry elsewhere, no matter what I enter as menu path (/Filters/Python/... failed...). What to do here? Is there some pointer outlining how to deal with python scripts in Gimp 2.4?

Hi Kristian -

there are no comaptibility changes in python-fu from gimp-2.2 to gimp-2.4

You should watch the output of GIMP to the terminal to see if any errors (like a syntax error due to a missplaced punctiation character) is happening. Otherwise, as you see no "python" or "python-fu" entrie son you rmenus at all - it looks like you simply don-? have gimp-python installed for your new gimp. (If ther eis no python-fu entry under your "xtns" menu on the toolbox, then it is really not there)

If you are on Linux, just look for a package named "gimp-python" or similar.

That said, an easy way to find out plug-ins when you don't know where in the menus they are, is to use the "plug-in browser" (which on 2.4 lives on the "Xtns" menu).

Regards,

js ->

Any help / hints greatly appreciated. :)

Cheers & best regards, Kristian

On Tuesday 26 August 2008, Sven Neumann wrote:

Hi,

On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 21:43 +0200, Kristian Rink wrote:

- The package seems to be installed in the appropriate version matching my Gimp:

kr@kassiopeia:~ > dpkg -l|grep gimp-python ii gimp-python 2.4.6-1ubuntu1~hardy1 Python support and plugins for GIMP

It should just work then. python-fu in GIMP 2.4 introduced a slightly changed syntax for registering python scripts, but the API was kept backward-compatible, so your old scripts should just continue to work.

Indeed -
Kristian, jsut start GIMP from the terminal and check for an error output.
You might just try to load your script with straight with python, to check for syntax errors, since if there is a python syntax error, gimp will just spill out an obscure uninformative error message instead of the traceback of the script.

Sven