Re: [Gimp-user] Using a filter from within script-fu

["Rune K. Svendsen" <runesvend gmail com>]

Thanks, both Rob and Kevin! Exactly what I was looking for. I was 
wondering where the documentation for all the functions were. Looks like 
Help->Plug-in browser was what I was looking for.

In GIMP, when I click Filters->Generic->Dilate, the function is just 
performed without it asking for any parameters. How do I find out what 
the values are of the parameters, when using this filter from GIMP?

/Rune


On 08/22/2012 08:29 AM, Kevin Brubeck Unhammer wrote:
> "Rune K. Svendsen" <runesvend gmail com> writes:
>
> > Hi list
> >
> > I'm learning how to write script-fu scripts. I've managed to resize an
> > image, but I would like to use a filter from within the script-fu
> > script, applying it to the image after it's been resized. More
> > specifically, I'd like to run the Filters->Generic->Dilate filter on
> > the image, before saving it. I've searched on Google for how to do
> > this, but I can't find any references to using filters from within a
> > script. Can anyone help me on this?
> Click Help, then either Plug-in browser or Procedure browser (not sure
> why there are two), type "dilate". You'll see the name of the main entry
> function, "plug-in-dilate", in bold, followed by the help string, list
> of parameters it takes, their types and possible values.
>
> Often it's helpful to look at the source of that function, in case you
> only want do part of what it does. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to
> be a one-click method to go straight to the source of non-compiled
> functions (hint hint, developers). Typing
> "locate dilate|grep -v '/help/'"
> into my command line gave me nothing, so perhaps it's written in C
> or something.