Re: what's wrong with this?

["michaelhoelzende" <MichaelHoelzen@xxxxxxx>]

--- In script-fu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "michaelhoelzende"
<MichaelHoelzen@xxxx> wrote:
>
> --- In script-fu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, gd32@xxxx wrote:
> >
> > > From  michaelhoelzende
> > 
> > > Hi all,
> > > i've got a problem in understanding script-fu.
> > > Hopefully one can help.
> > > What is wrong with the following? Without the second 
> > > "(gimp-message dummyyy)" everything is fine.
> > > With it and condition true script-fu.exe crashes.
> > 
> > >    (if (> getfifapo-list 0)
> > >       (begin
> > >          (set! countit 3)
> > >          (set! dummyyy (car(number->string countit)))
> > 
> > Your problem is that last line. Car is used to access the first
> element of a
> > list. However number->string doesn't return a list.
> > The correct syntax would be: (set! Dummyyy (number->string countit))
> > 
> > I'm surprised it crashes script-fu though. It should just return an
> error.
> > 
> > Guillaume
> >
> Thanks, Guillame.
> And i have to apologize because of the simplyfied example.
> What i really wanted to do is get the first point of a path
> and display it via a message. (gimp-path-get-points which returns
> INT32, INT32, INT32, FLOATARRAY).
> example in fu-console:
> (gimp-path-get-points 1 "selection_to_path")
> (1 1 135 #(275 98 1 281 94 2 286 95 2 293 94 1 308 92 2 337 93 2 349
> 87 1 348 85 2 348 84 2 346 83 1 341 80 2 323 76 2 317 75 1 317 75 2
> 233 61 2 233 61 1 224 60 2 208 56 2 201 61 1 191 68 2 191 80 2 191 91
> 1 191 107 2 182 122 2 182 138 1 182 143 2 182 148 2 184 153 1 189 170
> 2 207 178 2 223 184 1 260 198 2 310 202 2 345 182 1 350 179 2 358 174
> 2 362 169 1 371 159 2 380 140 2 369 128 1 362 121 2 344 116 2 335 113
> 1 335 113 2 275 98 2))
> 
> For a first test i wanted to display the first INT32 returned value in
> the message. So the "car" is a relict of that test which crashes in
> the same way.
> 
> By the way...it crashes too with the correct syntax of your reply.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Michael
>

Guillaume, your answer has been a kind of confirmation that on
principle it couldn't be wrong.
I've reinstalled GTK and GIMP and now it works!

Thanks

Michael





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