Re: [GnuB] Listing of the PDB

["Dalton S. Spence" <dalton.spence@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday, August 21, 2008 10:21 PM, *I* wrote;
>I just downloaded the latest GIMP installer (2.4.6) and successfully
> installed it and the help system (YES!) on my laptop yesterday. As a
> former programmer I am very interested in the scripting language, so
> I was a bit disappointed to discover that there was no way to extract
> procedure names from the PDB browser. I prefer to use a familiar text
> editor for programming that allows me to set up custom syntax high-
> lighting files showing selected keywords in specific colors, and
> while I was able to cull built-in procedures/variables from the SIOD
> site at http://www.cs.indiana.edu/scheme-repository/imp/siod.html, it
> would nice to have an ASCII text file with the GIMP procedure names
> to add to my keyword highlighting set. (Heck, I'd settle for being
> able to copy individual procedure names from the PDB browser to the
> Windows clipboard so I could paste them into my scripts without
> risking typos.)

<bangs head against wall> Well as usual, I found the answer to my question 
on the list by myself only a couple of hours after I made this first post. 
It was, of course, waiting for me in the PDB browser, under 
"gimp-procedural-db-dump". I also discovered that when the browser is 
launched from the Script-Fu Console, there is a neat little "Apply" button 
that lets you send the procedure template back to the command line to fill 
out. <bang!> Oww! Anyway, I'm going to have to write a macro for my text 
editor to do this regularly; in the single day since I started browsing it, 
several new procedures were added to the database. (I also need some 
pointers on Script-Fu I/O procedure protocols; I had to go hunting for my 
dump file since it didn't end up where I thought it would. ;))

-- 

Dalton "Is it a bad sign when you start replying to your own introductory 
messages?" Spence 


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