Re: [Gimp-developer] How to call gimp_export_image() from Pythonplugin

["Joao S. O. Bueno" <gwidion gmail com>]

This is a missing feature in the 2.8 release. New features are usually not added
in stable release cycle, which is the case of gimp 2.8  - and gimp-python is
bound to it.

If it was something without which one would die - but  the
functionality can be obtained by 5 lines
of code, as already answered in the first e-mail.

I will deal shortly  with the other bug reported here - regarding the
"parent" atribute of layers, which
is being retrieved as Layer, not LayerGroup.
I might add the "export" method to GIMP Image objects - but that is a
new feature , I am  not sure if it should be backported to 2.8 .




On 19 June 2014 15:09, Ed . <ej_zg hotmail com> wrote:
> It is not a PDB function, but a libgimp (C) function. Since pygimp can do
> gimpui stuff (also C functions), there is no conceptual reason why pygimp
> shouldn't also handle gimpexport (which is where gimp_export_image lives).
>
> I thought that in Python it was straightforward to access C functions? This
> is simply a function that returns an integer, albeit one that uses the GIMP
> UI - which pygimp already can initialise.
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Vladimir Rutsky
> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2014 6:24 PM
> To: João Sebastião de Oliveira Bueno
> Cc: Ed . ; gimp-developer
>
> Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] How to call gimp_export_image() from
> Pythonplugin
>
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 9:52 PM, Joao S. O. Bueno <gwidion gmail com> wrote:
> > IS it available throught the PDB?
> > Most GIMP - Python functions are done via PDB, except pixel-region
> > manipulation stuff.
> > If it is not in the PDB, it is not availabl in GIMP 2.8 - the current
> > GIMP Python structure has to
> > special cases a lot of things to work aside from the PDB, and doing so
> > is not minor stuff
> > done inside a release cycle.
> >
> > Making the 3-4 above calls are straightforward - I see no reason to
> > violate the principle of no new features inside a release to add this.
> > In GIMP 2.10, the export feature will also have to deal with precision
> > management, and besides this export function, a class of PDB calls
> > dealing with precision needs
> > to be added as well.
>
>
> Joao, Ed,
>
> so gimp_export_image() should be exported to Python though PDB (to all
> plugins) or by writing custom export code as done for some functions
> to export it only to Python?
>
> --
> Vladimir Rutsky
>
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