Am Samstag, 3. Juni 2006 16:58 schrieb Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris: > On Saturday 03 June 2006 09:53 am, Simon Budig wrote: > > Alan Horkan (horkana@xxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > > On Sat, 3 Jun 2006, Simon Budig wrote: > > > > That sounds as if you don't clear the layer before you use it > > > > for the first time. Layers created from a Plugin are not > > > > initialized from the very beginning. They need to be cleared > > > > using e.g. gimp_drawable_fill. > > > Thanks a lot, that helped. Did it with: newLayer.fill(TRANSPARENT_FILL) seb > > > I remember getting caught out by this too. Why is necessary to > > > manually clear a new layer rather than have it done > > > automatically? > > > > I have no strong opinions on that. I guess the reasoning behind > > this behaviour was a speed optimization: If a plugin later renders > > stuff to a new layer anyway it would be a waste of time to clear it > > automatically. If it doesn't it would just invoke > > gimp_drawable_fill. No harm done, except that you have to know > > about it. > > > > It might even matter for big images... > > For C plug-ins that might be true. However, python plug-ins are not > good in dealing directly with pixels - that is, for rendering things. > > I guess the python api for creating a layer could create an empty one > with no problems. > > Regards, > JS > -><- > > > Bye, > > Simon > > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-developer mailing list > Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer -- Sebastian Breuers Huhnsgasse 53 50676 Köln Tel: 0221-2954235 Mobil: 0179-7841404 Mail: sebbreuers@xxxxxx _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
