Re: [Gimp-user] Scripting, toggles and accessing the application state

[Ofnuts <ofnuts gmx com>]

On 01/10/16 09:16, John Smith wrote:
> I answer on this thread, the other one (no subject) was another mistake of
> my part.
>
> So as Jan said we aren't all that fluent in typing.
>
> My personnal reason is that I used Photoshop for 21 years now and I
> consider that a program should yield to its users' needs and not the other
> way round.

To some extent...; You can't take Excel and require it behaves like 
Photoshop. A program also has its own "philosophy", the more you stick 
to it, the happier you are. As they says the hard part is not learning 
Gimp, it's unlearning Photoshop.
> For example I need a toggle when working on an image for which I have a
> sketch. Sometimes I need to show the layer with the sketch, then hide it
> then show it then hide it to see what is on the sketch that I lost on the
> image I built. Pressing F8 repetitively in very rapid strokes generally do
> the trick. Don' forget to half close your eyes as well😁

This is a two-lines script (plus 10 lines of boilerplate script 
registration code)