How can I get tool option "Scale" for python-fu scripts?

[Richter Huang]

Hi,

I wrote a python-fu script for my private use that may enable me
one-button-filter-applying during painting with brush. The script is
thus; It firstly gets the current brushes' size, sets it as the radius
of gaussian blur and applies blur, so that it may work
non-interractively but it adjust itself flexiblly according to the
painting condition.
But there's a problem. The procedure "gimp-brush-get-info" dosen't
provide me with the actual brushes' size, since there's a option
"Scale" in Tool Options dialog and I frequently change it. In addition
I mainly use self-made pipe-brushes, which you cannot adjust within
Brush Editor dialog.

Then, I came to two solutions of this problem:
a) Getting the status of "Scale" in a certain way
b) Reading lines from preserved preferences (text files) in
"tool-options" directory with python

Choosing "a", I will have to know the right way how I can get the
status. But I have entirely no idea though I read GIMP-Python
Documentation; http://www.gimp.org/docs/python/index.html
On the other hand "b" is an achievable way. But, files in
"tool-options" directory are not seamlessly refreshed. They seem to be
the just preservation of the last session of GIMP and I cannot refresh
them except when the GIMP is completely quited or when "Save Tool
Options Now" is clicked through "Toolbox > FIle > Preferencese > Tool
Options".

Won't you please help me if you have any ideas about these two issues,
how I can get the status "Scale" in tool options or how I can print
the current status on certain files when I like?
I'm sorry I know too little because I'm not any sort of coders.

Sincerely,
Richter
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[Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris]

On Wednesday 23 April 2008, Richter Huang wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I wrote a python-fu script for my private use that may enable me
> one-button-filter-applying during painting with brush. The script
> is thus; It firstly gets the current brushes' size, sets it as the
> radius of gaussian blur and applies blur, so that it may work
> non-interractively but it adjust itself flexiblly according to the
> painting condition.
> But there's a problem. The procedure "gimp-brush-get-info" dosen't
> provide me with the actual brushes' size, since there's a option
> "Scale" in Tool Options dialog and I frequently change it. In
> addition I mainly use self-made pipe-brushes, which you cannot
> adjust within Brush Editor dialog.
>
> Then, I came to two solutions of this problem:
> a) Getting the status of "Scale" in a certain way
> b) Reading lines from preserved preferences (text files) in
> "tool-options" directory with python
>
> Choosing "a", I will have to know the right way how I can get the
> status. But I have entirely no idea though I read GIMP-Python
> Documentation; http://www.gimp.org/docs/python/index.html
> On the other hand "b" is an achievable way. But, files in
> "tool-options" directory are not seamlessly refreshed. They seem to
> be the just preservation of the last session of GIMP and I cannot
> refresh them except when the GIMP is completely quited or when
> "Save Tool Options Now" is clicked through "Toolbox > FIle >
> Preferencese > Tool Options".
>
> Won't you please help me if you have any ideas about these two
> issues, how I can get the status "Scale" in tool options or how I
> can print the current status on certain files when I like?
> I'm sorry I know too little because I'm not any sort of coders.
>

Hi there,

as you have noted, currently the PDB API lacks some recent paint brush
(and other tools) parameters (like jutter and scale). There is
currently no work around this, as you have perceived.

Unfortunatelly the only thng I can think of right now is for your
python-fu script to pop-up a self-created gtk+ dialog (non mandatroy,
no modal), with an input field, wher one can type in the brush
scale,, and keep the value in this field in a persistent file of its
own between invocations.

Regards,

        js
        -><-


> Sincerely,
> Richter
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[Richter Huang]

On Wednesday 23 April 2008, Joas S. O. Bueno wrote:
>Hi there,

>as you have noted, currently the PDB API lacks some recent paint brush
>(and other tools) parameters (like jutter and scale). There is
>currently no work around this, as you have perceived.
>Unfortunatelly the only thng I can think of right now is for your
>python-fu script to pop-up a self-created gtk+ dialog (non mandatroy,
>no modal), with an input field, wher one can type in the brush
>scale,, and keep the value in this field in a persistent file of its
>own between invocations.

Hi, thanks a lot for your reply.
I see what you mentioned.
I wish someday some cool coders will deal with the part of PDB API
that I want. And I, personally, will try again to find another way to
make a useful shortcut.

Right now I use a particular script which just batches the python-fu
file inputting numbers through a dialog. This is, however, not so
diffrent from normal gaussian blur and Ctrl+F repetition. (lol

Sincerely,
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