Quoting Gino D <ginodonig@xxxxxxxxx>: >> I do not believe it is possible for a Script-fu to delete files. You >> will need to either do this outside of GIMP or write a plug-in. > > Deletion of files is made possible by the “file-delete” procedure, as > shown at the end of the sequence of commands I proposed in my initial > post. I hadn't realized that the TinyScheme Extensions had been enabled for Script-fu. If you choose to use the 'gimp-temp-name' approach I previously proposed then 'file-exists?' would be better than opening the file. >> The following code snippet uses 'gimp-temp-name' -- which generates a >> filename that has an extremely good chance of being unique... > > The idea of employing the “gimp-temp-name” procedure for generating a > most likely unique file name is very interesting. Thanks for your > suggestion and the snippet you devised. Pity that such procedure > affects only the GIMP temporary directory; if it were effective in > every folder, it would be great, especially for the issue we are > discussing. Even within the GIMP temporary directory, 'gimp-temp-name' does not actually guarantee uniqueness against files in the directory, so the only inconvenience of using 'gimp-temp-name' is having to parse out the filename from the full filepath. > By chance, can you tell me if my previous conjectures about the > priority of the exclamation point are correct, besides on Windows, on > other operating systems too? Your approach would not succeed on GNU/Linux platforms because 'dir-read-entry' does not ensure that the entries are returned in alphabetical order. Even on Windows I suspect you will find that the order entries are retrieved is dependent upon the type of filesystem (FAT, VFAT, NTFS all behave differently). _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
