Thanks for the info guys.
Yes, I am already developing on Linux (I am a long time linux user, I haven't touched Windows since win98). I'll start launching Gimp from the terminal and watching for output there
I'm assuming Jon is working on Windows. On Linux you can just start
gimp from a terminal and get all the output you need, but when I was
porting a plug-in I wrote to Windows, there was no info in the command
line, and I had to resort to printing stuff to the gimp error console.
Anyone know how to do this on windows.
One solution is, of course, to just install Linux (on a physical or
virtual machine) and do the development on that.
Ragnar
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Joao S. O. Bueno <gwidion mpc com br> wrote:
> On 3 April 2012 08:01, Jon Decker <jondecker76 gmail com> wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> I have a lot of work into my first large plugin. One thing that really
>> slows my progress is the lack of any kind of debugging or work flow. For
>> example, if I make a syntax error, the plugin will just silently fail, or
>> fail to appear in the menu. I receive no erros or hints as to where the
>> error occured. I normally have to commentoput code line-by-line and rerun
>> the plugin until I find the offending line of code. I've wasted hours at a
>> time finding small little bugs like this.
>
> to detect syntax errors, just try to run your plug-ina s a normal
> Python program -
> Syntax errors will be flagged normally - i the program is well formed,
> it will fail with an import error
> when trying to import gimp or gimpfu
>
> As fro runtime erros, just watch the normal error output of GIMP on
> the terminal.
> (the good news is taht for fixing these errors, you just have to
> re-run the plugin from inside GIMP<
> no need to reinstall or relaod anything).
>
> js
> -><-
>
>
>>
>> Is there a way to have gimp relay python errors?
>>
>> I have also noticed that the python plugins will not run outside of gimp
>> with the standard python interpreter (can't find the gimp imports).
>>
>> Is there something I'm missing? Is this the workflow that everybody uses?
>> Any hints or tips?
>>
>>
>> thanks!
>>
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