On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 03:14:20 +0200, "Branko Collin" <collin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 18 Apr 2002, at 13:42, ATIS AUNGABSEE wrote: > > On Photoshop we can use the actions palette to easily reccord every > > action we do on with the picture while working by just clicking the > > reccord button on the palette and play those action again on others > > file that we want to do that same procedure with the files. [...] > The GIMP is able to perform a series of image manipulation action > over and over again, but you have to program these rather than record > them. Maybe it will soon be possible to record some scripts automatically in the developer's version of the GIMP (the one that is in CVS, definitely not the 1.2.x version). But "soon" is not defined yet... Two weeks ago, I spent some hours adding a very preliminary support for a kind of "script recorder". The basic idea is to add a new global pointer to a GimpRecorder struct. If this pointer is not NULL, then all actions that are performed through the PDB are added to a list that is included in this structure (name of proc + parameters). Later, this list can be converted to a script when the user stops recording. This can be Script-Fu, Perl-Fu or other languages: it should not be too hard to translate the list of PDB calls to any scripting language. But this is not working yet: there are still some actions that I cannot capture (no PDB call is generated) and there are some PDB calls that I have to filter out (because I only want to record the "top-level" actions initiated by the user from the GUI). I am still not sure if the best solution is to keep track of the "depth" of the PDB calls and filter out the nested calls (so that if the user calls a script, the PDB calls made by this script will not be recorded) or if I should check the state of the undo stack, or both. I still have to experiment a bit with that. But the main problem is still to be able to capture all actions as PDB calls. There are many operations that can be done from the GUI without generating any PDB interaction, and I have to change that. I started doing that two weeks ago, but I haven't been able to continue since then (not enough spare time). I hope that I will have a few more hours in the coming weeks to experiment a bit more. Although this is still in a very preliminary stage, maybe there is hope that you will see a script recorder before GIMP 9.0 is out... -Raphaël
