Re: [Gimp-user] interactive batch processing

[Bob Long <bob oblong com au>]

Gary Aitken wrote on 10/12/18 4:50 am:
> In the past I have interactively batch processed images via a shell
> script
> that invokes gimp for each image.  This is both inconvenient and slow.
> Inconvenient because there are parameters I need to enter into some
> python-fu
> scripts that are the same for each of the images, and slow because of the
> gimp startup and shutdown each time.
>
> Is there a way to do one of the following:
>
> A. Start gimp with a list of file names to process, and have it load only
>    the first on the list.  Then when one quits or closes the image, load
>    the next one, etc?
>
> B. I can feed the list of file names to a python-fu script, which then
> can
>    open and display the image.  Is there a way for a python-fu script to
>    wait for, or be notified of, the closing of an image display?  This
>    would allow the script to effectively pause and allow processing
> before
>    opening each successive image.  gimp-context-push/pop seem like they
>    may somehow enable this but it's not clear to me how they are used.
>
> It seems like gimp-display-get-window-handle might be useful somehow, if
> there were a means to be notified when the window is destroyed.
>
> Any thoughts / hints would be much appreciated.

Have a look at this script:

http://gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=4846&p=183034&hilit=sequential_processing#p183034

Maybe that will do what you want.

-- 

Bob Long


> Thanks,
>
> Gary