Re: [Gimp-user] batch mode in gimp?

[Kevin Cozens <kevin ve3syb ca>]

On 13-08-03 08:37 AM, Grue wrote:
> Script-Fu API is also more consistent than Python's (almost everything is
> an integer, and all gimp library functions return a list of return
> values), so Procedure Browser is also a complete documentation of the
> library.

There are a couple of minor points one has to keep in mind when reading the 
information provided by the PDB while working on SF scripts. Apart from 
that, the procedure browser does provide a (mostly?) complete documentation 
of the library.

> Granted, it would be nice if GIMP included a more powerful Lisp (such as
> ECL, Embeddable Common Lisp), but Script-Fu's Tinyscheme is surprisingly
> fun to program in.

There have been discussions where people have said GIMP should use a more 
complete Scheme implementation. Guile was mentioned in particular in those 
discussions. SF has tried to stay small by using a small Scheme interpreter. 
It let's you automate tasks in GIMP and you can do some reasonably complex 
tasks. However, it does have its limitations and there are times when a more 
full featured programming language is useful. To that end, there other 
language bindings available one can use.

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