On Monday 08 October 2007 18:57:07 Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 09:27 +0200, Marcus Heese wrote: > > I've written a small patch based on the gimp-2.4.0-rc2 sources which > > implements a new gimp-text-fontname and gimp-text-get-extents-fontname > > function for the PDB. In fact, I wrote this because I needed the > > possibilities of adjusting letter/line spacing and indentation as well as > > the possibilities of directly getting access to hinting and auto-hinting > > in my gimp-ruby-scripts. > > > > As I'm totally new to gimp development I don't really know if this was > > the right place to implement, so I just wrote two new > > functions "gimp-text-fontname-new" and > > "gimp-text-get-extents-fontname-new" and put them just in the same files > > where I found the other old equivalent functions. I hope my C knowledge > > wasn't that bad, but as gimp sources were really well arranged, it didn't > > take me too long to get used to the syntax. > > Unfortunately it seems that you missed the comment at the top of the > file you edited. It informs you that this file is generated code. You > could have saved yourself a lot of work by editing the > corresponding .pdb file instead. Unfortunately it seems that you must be right :) ... Though it was not that much work and for me it's working. > > We are in need for an updated text-tool PDB API but I would really like > to get it right this time instead of adding more kludges. There's a bug > report for this and it would be very nice if we could get some help with > it. Perhaps then we can get such an API for GIMP 2.6: > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164539 Alright I see... I would like to help for GIMP 2.6 to get a real good implementation of the text-tool PDB API. So I declare myself a volunteer for this task. However, is there a possibility to "add" another kludge to GIMP 2.4.x? My scripts won't work without a possibility of letter spacing and I don't like the idea of compiling always a new GIMP 2.4.x version with each update on every machine the scripts should work... regards Marcus _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
