On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 08:38 -0500, paolocchio wrote: > I have managed to select 'Gimp' as bitmap editing tool (Tool path: Z: > \usr\bin\gimp). Now when I choose 'Edit subpic with external tool' > 'Gimp' is launched but I get the message: > <Opening of "/usr/bin/C:\users\utente\Temp\tempbitmap.bmp" has failed: > cannot open '/usr/bin/C:\users\utente\Temp\tempbitmap.bmp' in read > mode: non existing file or directory> > That's because the Gimp, like all Linux programs, expects '/' rather than '\' as the separator in a path name. One way to get round it is to write a small script as a wrapper for the Gimp and tell your program to use the script as the bitmap editing tool. I just wrote and tested one: it is called gimpwrapper and has three lines..... ==============start of gimpwrapper=============== #!/bin/bash f1=$(echo "$*" | tr '\\' '/') gimp $f1 ===============end of gimpwrapper================ The first line is standard script boiler-plate to make sure that the bash shell is used to interpret the script, which must be made executable with chmod. The second line does all the work: it feeds all the arguments supplied to gimpwrapper through the 'tr' utility, which replaces all ocurrences of '\' with '/'. The third line passes the processed argument(s) to the Gimp. Martin
