On Thursday 18 January 2007 04:58, David Gowers wrote: > Manuel pointed out, The gimp currently lacks any way for a plugin > to get a coordinate from the image (eg. click on the 'seed' pixel). > I've often wanted to do this, and it is a bit awkward without it. > Has implementing this been avoided, or is it just an oversight? > > Some example usages: > * Color mixer: click on any number of pixels then press ENTER to > set FGcolor to a mix of all those colors. > * Zone selector: click on a zone to select it > * Word balloon creation (see a recent post on gimp-user) -- click > a series of 5 points to draw a word balloon (size, point shape and > location) Hi David: If you do not need it in real time, that is, if picking a point and only then caling a plug-in suits your needs, one can use paths. I have a couple of python-fu scripts myself that pick coordinates from the first, or first two nodes on the active path, and it is quite usefull. js -><- _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
