Re: [Gimp-developer] gimp-edit-copy

[Michael Natterer <mitch gimp org>]

Hi Peter,

If any script works fine in 2.8, but not in git master,
please file a bug.

Regards,
Mitch

On Mon, 2017-04-17 at 11:05 +0100, Peter Suetterlin wrote:
>   Hi,
>
> I recently switched to the 2.9 series of gimp(*).  Some of the
> script-fus I
> regularly use do need babysitting, in particular the 'maximize local
> contrast'
> script by Roy Johnson.  I fixed the deprecated function calls, but it
> always
> failed in the final step where an edit buffer captured via gimp-edit-
> copy
> should be pasted into a layer mask.
>
> After some debugging on the script-fu console it turned out the
> reason for the
> failure was that the edit buffer was empty.
>
> I could fix the problem by selecting the full area before the call to
> gimp-edit-copy.  But acording to the docs it should do this by itself
> if
> nothing is selected.
>
> Has this changed lately, or is it a bug to report?
>
> I'm running openSUSE Tumbleweed, with a package from
> home:/Herbster0815.
> It's called gimp-2.9.4-64.12, but reports itself as 2.9.5, so I don't
> know the
> exact version but assume it's from git?
>
>   Pit
>   
> (*) Really amazing!  You're doing a really great job on this.  I'll
> for sure
> stick with 2.9