Hi, Markus Triska <triska@xxxxxx> writes: > this is a trivial plug-in that implements one single call: > > file-get-type <path> > > returning the type of the entity pointed to by 'path' (currently > only: 0 = directory, 1 = file). (Symbolic constants like > TYPE-DIRECTORY or such should be added if this is included.) > > I'm also attaching a script that recursively traverses a given > directory and returns a list of path names to (exclusively) regular > files that are located inside this directory or any of its > sub-directories for further processing. Try with > > (all-files "/home/yourname/testdir") > > on the Script-FU console, where "testdir" is a directory containing > a few directories and files, NOT a few thousands (can cause problems > on the console). > > I'm giving this another shot (after bug #145370, taking your > feedback into account - TinyScheme currently lacks a similar > feature), because it seems to me that batch-processing is the single > most often asked issue on the comp.graphics.apps.gimp NG, and it > would be great if we could just give people a script similar to the > sample I'm attaching, tell them to copy it to ~/.gimpXY/scripts/ and > let's rock, without the need to download and compile a separate > plug-in. After the transition to TinyScheme, they would simply type: > > gimp -c -i -b "(map my-specialized-conversion (all-files "allmypictures"))" > > no matter which platform they are on. Your script is certainly useful for users of GIMP 2.0 but I don't want to see such functionality being added to the main trunk for the following reason: The plug-in attempts to fix a problem in Script-Fu. All other languages that you could use to write a GIMP script or plug-in don't have this problem as they already offer the functionality provided by your plug-in. The problem should therefore not be fixed by adding a plug-in but by fixing Script-Fu. Alternatively to fixing Script-Fu, a replacement for Script-Fu should be found. Kevin is working on Tiny-Fu and I hope that Tiny-Fu will be ready for GIMP 2.2 thus fixing this problem for us. Sven
