On Wednesday 30 November 2005 05:41 pm, Kevin Cozens wrote: > fotocomics wrote: > > WHY YOUR SCRIPT FU DIDN'T OFFER A PREVIEW? > > A preview window would need to be added that would contain a > miniature copy of all layers for a script to operate on. Due to how > long scripts can take to run, updating the preview window in real > time (ie. as soon as a control is changed in the script dialog) > would not be practical unless you have a super fast computer. It > would be better to have a button on the script dialog which would > cause the preview window to be updated. For logo scripts, the > preview window would be empty until the user clicked on the > "preview update" button. > > It might be possible to add a preview feature but I don't think it > would be an easy thing to do. Hi Kevin, The way I have been thinking about it is: just for <image> scripts, and show just the current drawable (and other drawables as input if they are part of the parameters) . And also, process just preview_width X preview_height pixels in each interaction. It won 't be a reliable preview for some scripts, but neither are some of the C plug-in previews anyway. But I am thinking about it for python-fu anyway - and am getting some ideas on how to get it done (including adding optional parameters to the 'register' call to enable or not a preview) Regards, JS -><- ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/I258zB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/e4wwlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/script-fu/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: script-fu-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
