On 6 Apr 2001, Michael Natterer wrote: > > The patch in question is named Gradient-Fu and it exposes the > > functionality of the gradient editor to scripts and plug-ins, enabling the > > accurate creations of gradients systematically. > > > > It can be found here: > > > > http://t2.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/grad-fu/ > > > > Please let me know what you think. > > IMHO this would be very nice. Manipulating gradients is currently > a GUI only thing and cannot be done via the PDB. That's bad. > > However we want to clearly separate the UI from the core functionality > all over the GIMP app/ source. For the gradient stuff, there is already > a separate gimpgradient.[ch] which is independent of any UI stuff, but > this new object still has no methods at all to actually manipulate the > gradients. This is all still done in the gradient_editor. > > Would you consider updating you patch for 1.3 so that it > > a. adds no editor state to the gradient object What do you mean by that? > b. does separate the actual gradient manipulation code out of the > gradient_editor > Well, I had to put some routines in separate functions so they can be used by both the PDB functions and the GUI ones. But I guess some work is still left. > ?-) > > The problem is that we will never reach the core/ui separation goal > if we accept new patches which break this. > > It would be highly appreciated if you could take on this problems > when updating your patch for current CVS because we definitely want > PDB-controllable gradients. > > (There will also be nobody keeping you from e.g. hacking a generic > FG/BG gradient or other stuff ;-) > > keep on hacking, > --Mitch > I will try to update the patch for GIMP 1.3.x, but first I need some info about how to download it from the CVS. Should I specify some special branch ID or something like that? Regards, Shlomi Fish ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish shlomif@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Home Page: http://t2.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/ Home E-mail: shlomif@xxxxxxxxxx A more experienced programmer does not make less bugs. He just realizes what went wrong more quickly.
